LOIS AKERS President

Lois Akers, president of LJA Consulting, LLC, “For the Greater” has 30 years of business consulting and fundraising experience. After working for the IBM Corporation, Lois started a business consulting company assisting both profit and non-profit organizations with their sales, marketing, business development and fundraising processes.

Lois has worked with a variety of Christian organizations, in the area of stewardship and capital campaign management. She has fundraising experience in a variety of industries.   Lois has held positions of Director of Sales and Marketing, and National Director of Catholic Stewardship and Philanthropy where she worked across multiple Dioceses.

Lois and her husband Joe have served as Chairpersons for multi-million dollar campaigns for church and school projects and have a personal goal to raise $200 million for the Catholic church. 

Lois and Joe started For the Greater as they saw a need to elevate campaigns to a higher level with a focus on spirituality.  In utilizing proven development principles, community building is a linchpin of each campaign. They’ve had tremendous success and fulfillment in helping churches to realize their goals while leading people to Christ.

Lois’ volunteer endeavors include serving on St. Pius X Executive Committee in Lincoln, NE,  the founding president of Kidzone, an after school care program at St. Stephen the Martyr parish in Omaha, NE; the founder for Skutt Catholic High School girls “Angel for a Day” program to catechize young Hispanic youth; the founding advisory director for the boys program “Champions 4 Faith” which worked with Sudanese families. She was a regional director for Youth for the Third Millennium which lead missions for high school girls in Chicago and Atlanta.  Lois loves music and directed both youth and adult choirs for 15 years. 

She feels called to this work and believes that “assisting churches with their fundraising efforts combines her business and personal life skills beautifully!”

She graduated from Creighton University, Omaha, NE, in business where she met Joe. They have been married for 32 years and reside in West Point, NE. They have four children and three grandchildren.