Posts under ‘WCA Leadership Summit Conference’

BILL HYBELS
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 [...]

TONY BLAIR
One of Great Britain’s most internationally recognized statesmen, Tony Blair served as Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from 1997 to 2007. During his tenure he helped transform Britain’s public services in education and health care and is widely credited for his contribution towards assisting the Northern Ireland Peace Process. He continues [...]

BONO
Bono is the lead singer of Irish rock band U2, which has sold more than 140 million albums and won numerous awards, including 22 Grammys. A well-known activist in the fight against AIDS and extreme poverty in Africa, he co-founded DATA (Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa) in 2002, The One Campaign in 2004, and Product (RED) [...]

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.
DAN HEATH is an insightful and engaging communicator, widely recognized business consultant, researcher, and entrepreneur. He has an MBA [...]

DAVID GERGEN
Editor-at-large at U.S. News & World Report and political analyst for CNN and PBS, David Gergen has served as a White House adviser to four presidents; Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Clinton. He is also a professor at Harvard’s School of Public Leadership. The author of Eyewitness to Power, he firmly believes that by identifying [...]

WESS STAFFORD
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 thousands of local churches in order to serve more than one million children in 24 countries. He’s earned degrees from [...]

ANDREW RUGASIRA
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. which was featured in president Bill Clinton’s 1998 tour of Africa. Andrew was nominated the Young Global [...]

DAVE GIBBONS
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.. Gibbons also leads the Newsong Global Alliance, a catalytic church organization with expanding, worldwide reach. The author of The Monkey and the Fish, Gibbons is a [...]

JESSICA JACKLEY
Jessica Jackley is co-founder of Kiva.org, the world’s first peer-to-peer online micro-lending website. Kiva.org allows internet users to lend as little as $25 to entrepreneurs in the developing world, providing affordable capital to start or expand a small business. In just three years Kiva has helped raise over $61 million and connected thousands of [...]

TIM KELLER
Called a “C.S. Lewis for the 21st century” by Newsweek, Dr. Timothy Keller is founder and pastor of New York’s Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan. Named one of the Top 25 Most Influential Churches in America, Keller’s ministry is notable for its missional approach, planting more than 100 churches through the Redeemer Church Planting [...]