Founder and Executive Director leading nearly $2 million in annual operations

Visionary behind community centered family impact initiatives

Pastor and founder with a prophetic and practical voice

Speaker known for authenticity, humor, and transformative storytelling

Visionary. Builder. Pastor. Speaker.

Meet Cortaiga Collins

Cortaiga Collins is a visionary leader, entrepreneur, pastor, and community builder committed to transforming lives by strengthening families, equipping leaders, and restoring communities. As the Founder and Executive Director of The Foundation for Strengthening Families, she leads innovative initiatives focused on education, health, and economic mobility while overseeing nearly $2 million in annual operations across multiple ventures.

She is also the visionary behind Show Me Family Zone, a bold redevelopment effort designed to revitalize communities through family centered solutions, and the founder of The Unconventional Church, where she brings a prophetic yet practical voice to faith, leadership, healing, and purpose. Known for her authenticity, humor, and transformative storytelling, Cortaiga helps audiences move beyond inspiration and into aligned action.

What She Speaks On

Signature Speaking Topics

Cortaiga delivers messages that are faith rooted, practical, and transformational. Each message is designed to meet people where they are while challenging them to grow, lead, heal, and build with greater clarity and courage.

01 Purpose, Calling, and the Courage to Build

Cortaiga helps audiences understand what it means to carry vision with discipline, obedience, and endurance. Her message calls people to stop shrinking back and start walking boldly in what they were created to build. This topic is especially strong for faith based events, women's conferences, leadership gatherings, and purpose driven audiences.

02 Faith in Action

With a voice that is both prophetic and practical, Cortaiga teaches how to move beyond inspiration into obedience, impact, and lived faith. She equips audiences to connect what they believe with how they lead, serve, and build in the real world.

03 Leadership That Heals, Builds, and Lasts

Drawing from her work in ministry, organizational leadership, and community transformation, Cortaiga equips leaders to build with both strength and wholeness. She speaks on sustainable leadership, healthy culture, courageous decision making, and leading well in complex environments.

04 From Vision to Execution

Cortaiga specializes in helping leaders and organizations move from ideas to implementation. This message focuses on building sustainable systems, aligning teams, strengthening culture, and scaling impact without compromising mission.

05 Building Stronger Families and Stronger Communities

Grounded in real world experience and community based leadership, Cortaiga speaks on restoring communities through education, family support, economic mobility, and intentional action. This topic is ideal for nonprofit, education, public service, and community impact audiences.

06 Perseverance, Healing, and Becoming

Through storytelling, biblical truth, and personal insight, Cortaiga empowers audiences to process what they have endured and move forward with greater grace, clarity, strength, and courage. This message resonates especially well with women's audiences, ministry environments, and transformational gatherings.

Custom messages can also be tailored to the needs of your audience and event theme.

Why Event Organizers Book Cortaiga

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Credibility with Real World Impact

Cortaiga brings more than inspiration. She speaks from lived leadership experience, having built organizations, led transformative initiatives, and created measurable impact across families and communities.

A Voice That Connects

Her authenticity, humor, and transformative storytelling allow her to connect across a wide range of audiences with warmth, honesty, and power.

Messages That Move People Forward

Cortaiga does not simply motivate in the moment. She equips audiences to think differently, lead differently, heal intentionally, and take meaningful next steps after the event is over.

Previous Engagements

Cortaiga is also an author whose message extends beyond the stage through themes of healing, faith, strength, and transformation. Her written work adds depth to her platform, but this page is dedicated to organizations and event leaders seeking to book her for impactful speaking engagements.

A few of the spaces and events Cortaiga has been part of include:

Missouri Legislators Retreat

#SheCan Summit

Marketplace Experience

501(c)(3) Essentials: Obtaining & Maintaining Nonprofit Status

It's a Joy Party

Sis Mas Holiday Pajama Party

Strong As Mama Summit

St. Louis Children's Hospital NICU Spotlight: Black Maternal Health

Sundresses & Shades

Women Empowerment Event

Through the Wilderness to Wellness

Through the Wilderness to Wellness is Cortaiga Collins’ faith based guide for women who are ready to release what has been weighing them down and step into lasting wellness. Rooted in Scripture, this book offers encouragement, practical insight, and a transformational journey from surviving to thriving.

More Than a Speaker

Cortaiga is also an author whose message extends beyond the stage through themes of healing, faith, strength, and transformation. Her written work adds depth to her platform, but this page is dedicated to organizations and event leaders seeking to book her for impactful speaking engagements.

Bring Cortaiga to Your Next Event

If you are looking for a speaker who can challenge hearts, strengthen leaders, and leave your audience with a message they can carry forward, Cortaiga Collins would be honored to serve your event.

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