Lily L. Jenkins is the Founder and CEO of Lily Jenkins Ministries and Vice President and Co-Founder of the Purpose Development Institute. Her role is to oversee all Certified Coaches to ensure that they are promoting the basic tenants of Purpose Development in their practices and that all satellite institutes are using training materials that include the basic tenants of the Purpose Development message.

A woman with many qualifications, Mrs. Jenkins is a Certified Human Behavior Consultant, Christian Life Coach and the first female Certified Purpose Development Coach. She has over 14 years of teaching experience at all levels including the university level as a Professor.

Mrs. Jenkins is a mentor for women, young and old. She spends time coaching her Ladies of Purpose group to help them develop a greater sense of purpose for living. Her transparency is a catalyst for purpose that encourages others to remove their insecurities, break limitations and discover their God given purpose. Her life exemplifies how God can take a mess and transform it into a message for the Kingdom of God.

Being the first female Certified Purpose Development Coach, Mrs. Jenkins is on the leading-edge for taking women to a new dimension of purpose. Her experiences and insight to purpose allows her to speak directly to the voids that women face in the 21st Century. She is gifted in using purpose in both domestic and entrepreneurial matters.

Mrs. Jenkins is also an accomplished author of five books; one of which awarded her as winner of the Pine-Sol Powerful Difference Contest. She was featured for her impact in the community with her anti-bullying campaign in Ebony Magazine, Dec./Jan. 2010 issue.

Churches, writing circles, schools, and community organizations have sought after Mrs. Jenkins to motivate, encourage, and inspire today’s youth & young adults. She is an advocate for using purpose to combat bullying among youth.

Mrs. Jenkins has been featured as a writer on The Review Magazine, Internet Cafe Devotions, Written Magazine, Booking Matters Magazine, Inspired Women Magazine and Live Magazine. She is now a contributing writer for PreachingWoman.com under the theme, “Ladies of Purpose”. Her story has been told in various interviews that range from radio and TV in which she was a guest on Atlanta Live, a TV show in metro Atlanta.

She enjoys being a wife, mother and pioneer with her husband as they raise the bar of purpose for their marriage, family, ministry and business.