This conference is for you if...

  • You’re ready to grow your capacity — You know the breakthrough you want on the outside starts with what God is building on the inside.

  • You’re ready to go higher — You’re done waiting for the “right time” and ready to attach faith to what God has placed in your hands.

  • You want to build big people — You want to create environments where others come alive.

  • You want more joy in your leadership — You’re hungry for practical, biblical tools to live and lead with greater gladness.

  • You’re a leader at any level — Whether you lead yourself, a family, team, church, ministry, or business – this is for you.

  • You’re hungry to be fully convinced — Like Abraham, you want to be strengthened in faith and fully convinced that God is able to do what He promised.

What You’ll Walk Away With

  • Mindset Shifts

    Life-altering perspective shifts for your leadership and personal transformation.

  • Renewed Hunger

    Fresh desire for personal growth, leadership development, and becoming who God called you to be.

  • Greater Clarity

    A clearer path forward for owning your leadership journey with faith and intentionality.

  • Practical Tools

    Declarations, habits, and systems you can begin using immediately.

  • Increased Capacity

    Beliefs and strategies that help you grow bigger on the inside.

  • Next Steps

    Discover how to continue growing in your leadership journey.

The leadership you build on the inside shapes everything you lead on the outside.

This one-day conference is rooted in the core principles that shape Backlund Leadership Academy — helping you grow in your beliefs, priorities, relationships, decisions, joy, and ability to build others.

The 8 pillars below give language to the kind of leadership that transforms lives from the inside out.


Steve Backlund

About Steve:

Steve Backlund is an encourager, leader developer, joy activist, and a revivalist teacher. He travels extensively throughout the world encouraging churches, leaders, and organizations into catalytic levels of hope. He has a unique anointing to release hope and joy paired with a revelatory teaching gift that creates new wineskins for greater dimensions of God, both personally and corporately.

Steve Backlund

Igniting Hope Co-Founder

Wendy Backlund

About Wendy:

Wendy Backlund is a revelatory author and speaker in the Body of Christ, carrying a passion to set people free and release them into their full identity in Jesus. She equips others to see through heaven’s perspective and walk boldly in the authority God has entrusted to them. With a heart to lead life-changing encounters with God, Wendy inspires breakthrough, awakening, and supernatural transformation wherever she ministers. She is the author of Victorious Emotions, Living From the Unseen and more.

Wendy Backlund

Igniting Hope Co-Founder

Connie Jones

About Connie:

Connie Jones is a John Maxwell Certified Coach and Leader Developer. She is a radical encourager with a passion to see the Body of Christ rise up into her magnificent place of identity and authority. She has been blessed to serve the church during the past 25 + years as a youth pastor, associate pastor, senior leader, and itinerate minister. She is a graduate of BSSM and Rhema Bible College and now works for Igniting Hope Ministries. She and her husband, Aaron live in Redding CA with their greatest treasures, their three sons: Joran, Braden, & Jesse.

Connie Jones

Associate Director of Igniting Hope

Countdown to the Conference

August 8, 2026. 9am - 5pm PT. Are you ready to transform your leadership?

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