“What has been true for us is true for you too: You will never take big hills without making bold moves.”
    

Bill Hybels

Founder & Senior Pastor
Willow Creek Community Church

Hybels is the founding and senior pastor of Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, IL, and the chairman of the board for the Willow Creek Association. He convened The Leadership Summit in 1995, following a God-given prompting to help raise and develop the spiritual gift of leadership for the local church. Both visionary and passionate about seeing every local church reach its full God-given potential, he speaks around the world on strategic issues to Christian leaders and is a best-selling author of more than 20 books, including Courageous Leadership and Axiom: The Language of Leadership.

LINKS

Willow Creek Community Church Message
Summit Session Highlights

   

Dr. Wayne Cordeiro

Dr. Wayne Cordeiro is Senior Pastor of New Hope Christian Fellowship, a Foursquare church in Honolulu, Hawaii. New Hope is a multi-campus church with 5 different locations on the island of Oahu, as well as affiliate churches world-wide. New Hope began on September 10, 1995 and since then eighty-three churches have been pioneered under Wayne's leadership.

Wayne was raised in Palolo valley on O'ahu and then lived in Japan for three years. He returned to Oregon where he graduated from Eugene Bible College. He served with Youth For Christ and as a staff pastor at Faith Center Foursquare Church, before returning to Hawaii.

In 1998, he founded Pacific Rim Bible College that trains, develops and supports emerging leaders who will plant twenty-first-century churches throughout the world.

Through New Hope International (NHI) Ministries, he shares his vision and life lessons with pastors from around the globe at the quarterly Leadership Practicum. NHI's sole purpose is to be a resource to existing ministries and to plant future churches. NHI has planted churches in the United States, Hawaii, Philippines, Myanmar, Japan, and Australia.

Wayne enjoys relaxing rides on his Harley-Davidson and writing music. He has released six albums to date. He has also authored eight books - Doing Church As A Team, Gems Along The Way, Attitudes that Attract Success, Rising Above, Culture Shift, Dream Releasers, and the Divine Mentor. He is contributing author for church leadership books and has written articles for various magazines such as Leadership Journal. Pastor Wayne and his wife, Anna, have three children, Amy, Aaron, and Abigail and two grandchildren, Katie and Zach.

Link

http://www.enewhope.org/

   

Dr. Andrew I. Liuson

President, Cityland Development Corp.

Dr. Liuson is co-founder and president of Cityland Development Corporation, a real estate company awarded as the leading condominium developer in the Philippines. He was inducted into the 2005 CNBC Asia Business Leader Awards Honor Roll held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He also serves as chairman of 3 educational institutions: the Global Leadership Group/International Graduate School of Leadership-Asia, Febias College of Bible, and Grace Christian High School. Dr. Liuson is married to Grace Liuson.
 

“Leadership is not defined by the exercise of power, but by the capacity to increase the sense of power among those who are led.”
    

Gary Hamel

Visiting Professor / Director
London Business School / Management Innovation Lab

Gary Hamel was ranked as the #1 Business Thinker of 2008 by The Wall Street Journal and called "the world's leading expert on business strategy" by Fortune. An author, speaker, professor, and innovative management consultant, he is most widely known for originating concepts such as "strategic intent" and "core competencies." The founder of Strategos, a worldwide strategic consulting company, his vision for the workplace revolves around releasing human potential and creativity. Hamel will address the paradigm shift needed to fully engage the potential of people and explain how tomorrow's most successful companies will be organized. He is the author of Leading the Revolution and The Future of Management.
 

Links

Reinvention of Management
Continuous Management Innovation
Fortune's Innovation Conference

 

“You need to learn how to just go and do what Jesus said to go and do.”
    

Harvey Carey

Founder and Senior Pastor
Citadel of Faith Covenant Church, Detroit, MI

One of the country’s most gifted and inspiring communicators, Harvey Carey is founder and senior pastor of the Citadel of Faith Covenant Church, a congregation of 650 in Detroit, MI. Located in one of the poorest zip codes in America, Carey’s church was identified as one of the top churches in growing people spiritually by the new REVEAL research. A former youth pastor at a large inner-city church in Chicago, Carey has trained and led ministry teams in preaching the gospel in housing projects, shopping malls, and public schools in urban areas across the country. He brings deep insights on how to encourage your people to grow, even in tough circumstances.
 

Links

Anderson University Chapel Service
Harvey Carey Ministries

“The truth is that loving our neighbor is not just a cross-cultural experience but an experience of the cross.”
    

Dave Gibbons

Founder and Lead Pastor
Newsong Church, Irvine, CA

Dave Gibbons is the founding pastor of Newsong Church, a multi-generational, multi-ethnic, multi-continental, multi-site church in Irvine, CA, named as one of the most innovative churches in America by Outreach Magazine. Gibbons also leads the Newsong Global Alliance, a catalytic church organization with expanding, worldwide reach into Asia, Central America, and Europe. The author of The Monkey and the Fish, Gibbons is a vision-oriented leader known for his insightful thinking on the future of the church. He brings expertise on “Third Culture” leadership and the top skills and experiences every leader will need to reach our global culture with the gospel.
 

Links

Third Culture Video
Newsong Live
VIBE 07 Video

Twitter

New generation leaders Dan Heath and Chip Heath are columnists for Fast Company Magazine and the authors of Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and BusinessWeek bestseller. At the Summit, they’ll be interviewed by Craig Groeschel, pastor and founder of LifeChurch.tv, for an exclusive look at their brand new 2010 book release, Switch. Dan and Chip will be answering questions on how leaders can be positive influencers during times of transition, how to create momentum, and how to persevere when change is hard.

Dan Heath

Author, Consultant, and
Co-founder of Thinkwell

Dan Heath is an insightful and engaging communicator, widely recognized business consultant, researcher, and entrepreneur. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School and is co-founder of Thinkwell, a publisher of innovative textbooks.

Links

Today Show Interview
Make Your Ideas Stick
Collaborative Innovation Summit

          
   

Chip Heath

Author, Consultant, and Professor at
Stanford's Graduate School of Business

Chip Heath is an author, consultant, speaker, and popular professor at Stanford's Graduate School of Management. His unique research on what makes ideas succeed has been featured in a wide range of popular media programs and publications.

Links

Today Show Interview
Business Week Interview

         
   

Craig Groeschel

Founder and Senior Pastor
LifeChurch.tv

Craig Groeschel has a passion for leading people to become fully devoted followers of Christ. LifeChurch.tv, in Oklahoma City, is one of the country's first multi-campus churches reaching more than 18,000 people with 40 weekly worship experiences in 12 locations including an Internet campus.

Links

Leadership Journal Article
Church Relevance Article

“Everything I really need to know to lead a multinational organization I learned from the poor, growing up in an African village.”
    

Dr. Wess Stafford

President and CEO
Compassion International

Dr. Wess Stafford, President of Compassion International, is an internationally recognized advocate for children in poverty. Founded in 1952, Compassion is one of the world's largest Christian child development agencies, partnering with more than 65 denominations and thousands of local churches in order to serve more than one million children in 24 countries. Though he’s earned degrees from Moody Bible Institute, Biola University, Wheaton College, and Michigan State University, his life experiences are what have uniquely prepared him for his role at Compassion International. He is the author of Too Small to Ignore; Why Children Are the Next Big Thing.
 

Links

Child Advocacy Video
Child Poverty Video
Forgiveness Video

“Africa needs trade, not aid, to fight poverty.”
    

Andrew Rugasira

Founder and CEO
Good African Coffee and African Trade Advocate

Andrew Rugasira is the Founder and CEO of Good African Coffee, an African-based social enterprise that brings quality coffees to the global market. Prior to founding Good African Coffee, Andrew was the CEO of VR Promotions, Ltd., Uganda's leading promotions and events management company, which was featured in president Bill Clinton's 1998 tour of Africa. Andrew was nominated the Young Global Leader 2007 by the World Economic Forum and remains an established leader in economic development. He graduated with honors from the University of London, and lives in Kampala, Uganda, with his wife Jacqueline and their children.
 

Links

Breakfast of Champions article
Read article in British newspaper The Observer