The Rising Generation Leadership Podcast | Conversations with Influential Christian Leaders: Recent Episodes
Errol Lawson
The Rising Generation podcast is for the aspiring or established Christian leader seeking to grow in their calling and make an impact in their generation. Whether you're called to leadership inside our outside of the church, you will find nuggets of wisdom from theses conversations that will encourage you along your leadership journey.
Each week the 'Rising Generation' Podcast features inspirational interviews with some of the worlds most influential Christian leaders. On each episode you will hear the down to earth, real stories of how they achieved their success, the challenges they overcame along the way and the key daily habits they have put in place in order to maintain and improve their service to the world.
John Stanko was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After graduating from St. Basil's Prep School in Stamford, Connecticut, he attended Duquesne University where he received his bachelor's and master's degrees in economics in 1972 and 1974 respectively. In 1973, he had a life-changing spiritual experience that radically changed his life course and purpose.
Since then, John has served as an administrator, teacher, consultant, author, and pastor in his professional career. He holds a second master's degree in pastoral ministries, and earned his doctorate in pastoral ministries from Liberty Theological Seminary in Houston, Texas in 1995. He also received a Doctor of Ministry degree at Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Pittsburgh.
About John Finkelde
I have 30 years pastoral leadership experience at C3 Church Hepburn Heights, Western Australia, initially as a team pastor for 10 years and then as the senior pastor for 20 years.
We built a large, regional, multi-generational, healthy church that has impacted its local community through innovative programs and multiplied itself through church planting both locally and overseas.
I have led inter-denominational groups, such as the Perth Christian Minister's Fellowship, and have also ministered extensively throughout Australia and internationally.
Amongst other things I love the fact that our church has planted 6 churches in the last 20 years and has 67% of our adults in connect groups.
In 2012 my wife Dianne and I transitioned our church to stellar next generation leaders raised in our church.
Our church has now sent us out to be specialist ministers in the wider body of Christ, specifically to partner with pastors to grow healthy churches.
Ps Anthony is the senior Pastor of Life Church Cape Town and
CEO and founder of Life Child. Ps Anthony came to Christ at a
cell group meeting after winning the South African Karate Middle
Weight Championship in 1983. He was involved also in the retail
industry for 11 years before being ordained as the Associate Pastor
of Sea Point Assembly in 1994. He took over leadership of the
church in 1998 where he still serves alongside his wife Desiree as
Senior Pastors. Ps Anthony also oversees Life Church’s in Cape
Town, Pretoria, Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe. Life Child
is the vision of Ps Anthony and serves to reach orphaned and
vulnerable children in South Africa, Mozambique, Malawi and
Zimbabwe.
The Bridge Church sermon - Part of the What should I do with my life? Teaching series. Delivered by Errol Lawson on the 7th April 2019
Peter J. Daniels is a well-known and respected Australian Christian international business statesman of substance.
He came from a disadvantaged background, and his early years were plagued by illiteracy and ignorance. He came to Christ on May 25, 1959, at a Billy Graham Crusade in Adelaide, South Australia. In spite of numerous disadvantages, he built a large real estate business in Australia, with Southeast Asian connections. He has served on international boards covering the four corners of the globe and has been deeply involved in Christian outreach throughout the world for more than 46 years. He has conducted free of charge over 1,000 seminars in churches in many parts of the world.
"...the best platform speaker in the world."Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
Peter and Robina Daniels promote Christian family values. They have three children, eight grandchildren, and one great grandchild.
Peter Daniels has authored over twenty books and authored numerous business education programs that are distributed worldwide in many languages. He has been honored by universities, institutions, and governments, for his entrepreneurial ability and benevolence and has served on International Boards with some of the world's greatest intellectual, business, academic, religious, and corporate giants of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Today, Mr. Daniels undertakes private consultancy and is passionately dedicated to his latest project “The Gabriel Call”.
Visit www.peterjdaniels.com
If you struggle with regular church as I do you are not alone. You may be what Dr Ellis calls an ‘unchurchable.’
The unchurchable want relation first, system second. Something that speaks to their person beyond an institution. Something easily missed if you’re more interested in converts than people.
Sadly this is the case for many churches. In word you won’t hear it but in practice it is all too common. There is no short cut. We have to get past the fear or red tape of the system and dare to do life and walk with people even if it highlights the cracks in the system.
Watching Dr Ellis video I quickly resonated with his comments about being an unchurchable person and realised I was firmly in that camp.
It appears that todays generation of young people are the most unchurchable yet. They desire an authenticity the church has been privileged not to require. But not anymore. The information age has changed the game. Life and what it consists of are up for grabs.
A changed life is the evidence people need. One they can follow and as the Scriptures and early Jews understood it this is doing life with people. It can’t be done in a class and it does not start when people discover Jesus personally either.
It starts the minute an unbeliever meets the believer. Right there just as it was with Jesus. He did it when the men he met were yet to know him for who he really was. When they finally saw who he was guess what happened? They changed.
So to wrap this up I have created a space where unchurchables inquisitive of Jesus faith can explore what it is about and be coached into what life with Christ looks like.
The Way is not here to change you. It’s here to undo the many misconceptions of faith so change can happen more easily. Ultimately Christ is the difference.
I have a particular passion for creativity and believe it is the common gift amongst all of us by virture of coming from a Creator. This is the vision and it excites me. See the video below for more and welcome to The Way.
If you have any questions I’m just a message away.
My wife and I are natives of Long Island, New York and Central Massachusetts, graduates of Boston College and UPenn, and have both worked in finance/Wall Street for 15+ years – our entire careers. Although now I primarily teach accelerated math and advise parents on how to educate their children.
As a family we’ve moved from Philly to Brooklyn, to Charlotte, to Boston, before returning to New York in May 2010. We moved to Manhasset – a small town just outside Queens, approximately 17 miles from Manhattan.
But after three years we got the itch again….and moved to London for 14 months. You can read more about that amazing journey (hitting 11 countries!) on my blog.
John was born in November 2004. Christine came in June 2006.
Onyi Anyado is a much sought after multiple award-winning Global Leadership Speaker who has the conviction, calling and commitment to influence, inspire and instruct people how to become distinguished in their chosen field.
As an entrepreneur, I don’t just read history, I create it so people can see the future in the present. ~ Onyi Anyado.
Onyi has spoken on various platforms which include India, Malaysia, Barclays Bank, a youth conference in Canada and much more. Wherever Onyi goes, he speaks with an unquestionable, undeniable and uncommon passion which coupled with his principles produces purpose, possibilities, promotion and productivity. What distinguishes Onyi from other speakers is his originality, creativity and humility.
Onyi delivers the following talks and workshops presentations:
-How to become a leader of distinction™
-How to become an African leader of distinction™
-How to become a student of distinction™
-How to become an entrepreneur of distinction™
-How to become an African entrepreneur of distinction™
-What’s your creative distinction?™
Onyi is available to speak on educational, corporate and business platforms nationally and internationally. To book Onyi to speak at your event, please send your full information to info@oamediahouse.com
Entrepreneur, to become distinguished, your thought leadership has to be fresh, forward thinking & fertile. ~ Onyi Anyado.
Maria has made history becoming the First and only Portuguese Woman to complete an expedition to the North Pole and South Pole to summit Mount Everest. She has gained 8 Guinness World Records so far for Endurance Sports with challenges such as running consecutive Ultra Marathons, running a Marathon on each of the 7 Continents in 10 days and completing a full Ironman Triathlon 6 continents in 56 days. She has also received many awards for excellence for her inspiring work achievements.
Realising that her story has the power to inspire, Maria speaks at events around the world to encourage people to pursue their own goals and dreams. Her talks always receive fantastic reviews.
As one of the UK’s top motivational speakers, Errol Lawson is a dynamic personality and highly-sought-after resource in organisations and schools looking to motivate and engage their leaders or students and see them perform at their highest potential. For more than 15 years he has not only studied the science of achievement, he’s mastered it by interviewing successful national and international leaders and collaborating with them to bring transformation in the lives of young people and leaders around the world.
As a Speaker and leading authority on achievement – Errol Lawson energises people to meet the challenges of the world around them. He skilfully weaves his compelling life story into the fabric of our daily lives. He teaches his audience to be courageous, to aim high, to achieve and actively make an impact on the world.
It isn’t just his great smile and his way with words that motivates people to take action like never before; when people face roadblocks or adversity it is the depth of his knowledge on achievement that creates lasting results.
Dan Lozounis
My wife and I are natives of Long Island, New York and Central Massachusetts, graduates of Boston College and UPenn, and have both worked in finance/Wall Street for 15+ years – our entire careers. Although now I primarily teach accelerated math and advise parents on how to educate their children.
As a family we’ve moved from Philly to Brooklyn, to Charlotte, to Boston, before returning to New York in May 2010. We moved to Manhasset – a small town just outside Queens, approximately 17 miles from Manhattan.
But after three years we got the itch again….and moved to London for 14 months. You can read more about that amazing journey (hitting 11 countries!) on my blog.
John was born in November 2004. Christine came in June 2006.
Errol Lawson
As one of the UK’s top motivational speakers, Errol Lawson is a dynamic personality and highly-sought-after resource in organisations and schools looking to motivate and engage their leaders or students and see them perform at their highest potential. For more than 15 years he has not only studied the science of achievement, he’s mastered it by interviewing successful national and international leaders and collaborating with them to bring transformation in the lives of young people and leaders around the world.
As a Speaker and leading authority on achievement – Errol Lawson energises people to meet the challenges of the world around them. He skilfully weaves his compelling life story into the fabric of our daily lives. He teaches his audience to be courageous, to aim high, to achieve and actively make an impact on the world.
It isn’t just his great smile and his way with words that motivates people to take action like never before; when people face roadblocks or adversity it is the depth of his knowledge on achievement that creates lasting results.
A best-selling author, high impact teacher, and former senator, Dr. Trimm is a sought-after empowerment specialist, revolutionary thinker, and transformational leader. She has earned a distinguished reputation as a catalyst for change and voice of hope to the nations.
Listed among Ebony magazine’s Power 100 as the “top 100 doers and influencers in the world today,” Dr. Trimm is a featured speaker on the world’s largest platforms, a frequent guest on Christian broadcasting’s most popular TV and radio programs, and continually tops the National Bestsellers Lists.
Dr. Trimm combines her wealth of leadership expertise with her depth of spiritual understanding to reveal life-transforming messages that empower and inspire. Seasoned with humor, compassion, revelatory insight, and personal candor, Dr. Trimm opens minds and touches hearts with biblically-based principles of inner healing and personal empowerment.
Pulling on her background in government, education, psychology, and human development, Dr. Trimm translates hard-hitting spiritual insights into everyday language that empower individuals to transform their lives—helping change the path people take in search of meaning, dignity, purpose, and hope
Errol Lawson
As one of the UK’s top motivational speakers, Errol Lawson is a dynamic personality and highly-sought-after resource in organisations and schools looking to motivate and engage their leaders or students and see them perform at their highest potential. For more than 15 years he has not only studied the science of achievement, he’s mastered it by interviewing successful national and international leaders and collaborating with them to bring transformation in the lives of young people and leaders around the world.
As a Speaker and leading authority on achievement – Errol Lawson energises people to meet the challenges of the world around them. He skilfully weaves his compelling life story into the fabric of our daily lives. He teaches his audience to be courageous, to aim high, to achieve and actively make an impact on the world.
It isn’t just his great smile and his way with words that motivates people to take action like never before; when people face roadblocks or adversity it is the depth of his knowledge on achievement that creates lasting results.
As one of the UK’s top motivational speakers, Errol Lawson is a dynamic personality and highly-sought-after resource in organisations and schools looking to motivate and engage their leaders or students and see them perform at their highest potential. For more than 15 years he has not only studied the science of achievement, he’s mastered it by interviewing successful national and international leaders and collaborating with them to bring transformation in the lives of young people and leaders around the world.
As a Speaker and leading authority on achievement – Errol Lawson energises people to meet the challenges of the world around them. He skilfully weaves his compelling life story into the fabric of our daily lives. He teaches his audience to be courageous, to aim high, to achieve and actively make an impact on the world.
It isn’t just his great smile and his way with words that motivates people to take action like never before; when people face roadblocks or adversity it is the depth of his knowledge on achievement that creates lasting results.
Liz Wiseman is a researcher and executive advisor who teaches leadership to executives around the world. She is the author of New York Times bestseller Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter, The Multiplier Effect: Tapping the Genius Inside Our Schools, and Wall Street Journal bestseller Rookie Smarts: Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work.
She is the CEO of the Wiseman Group, a leadership research and development firm headquartered in Silicon Valley, California. Some of her recent clients include: Apple, AT&T, Disney, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Nike, Salesforce, Tesla, and Twitter. Liz has been listed on the Thinkers50 ranking and named one of the top 10 leadership thinkers in the world.
She has conducted significant research in the field of leadership and collective intelligence and writes for Harvard Business Review, Fortune, and a variety of other business and leadership journals. A former executive at Oracle Corporation, she worked over the course of 17 years as the Vice President of Oracle University and as the global leader for Human Resource Development.
As one of the UK’s top motivational speakers, Errol Lawson is a dynamic personality and highly-sought-after resource in organisations and schools looking to motivate and engage their leaders or students and see them perform at their highest potential. For more than 15 years he has not only studied the science of achievement, he’s mastered it by interviewing successful national and international leaders and collaborating with them to bring transformation in the lives of young people and leaders around the world.
As a Speaker and leading authority on achievement – Errol Lawson energises people to meet the challenges of the world around them. He skilfully weaves his compelling life story into the fabric of our daily lives. He teaches his audience to be courageous, to aim high, to achieve and actively make an impact on the world.
It isn’t just his great smile and his way with words that motivates people to take action like never before; when people face roadblocks or adversity it is the depth of his knowledge on achievement that creates lasting results.
Cedrick LaFleur is a motivational and empowering Senior Executive with more than 30 years of success across the healthcare and sports industries. Leveraging extensive experience in global marketing and sales management for customer focused organizations. His broad areas of expertise include sales operations, sales effectiveness, marketing strategy, market development, new product launch, clinical laboratory management, and leadership enhancement.
Throughout his executive career, Cedrick has held leadership positions at organizations including LaFleur Leadership Institute, Abbott Laboratories, and CyFair Texans Basketball. In his current role as Founder and CEO of LaFleur Leadership Institute, Cedrick has created a successful company which delivers workshops, seminars, keynote speeches, and coaching for individuals and companies focused on leadership development.
As one of the UK’s top motivational speakers, Errol Lawson is a dynamic personality and highly-sought-after resource in organisations and schools looking to motivate and engage their leaders or students and see them perform at their highest potential. For more than 15 years he has not only studied the science of achievement, he’s mastered it by interviewing successful national and international leaders and collaborating with them to bring transformation in the lives of young people and leaders around the world.
As a Speaker and leading authority on achievement – Errol Lawson energises people to meet the challenges of the world around them. He skilfully weaves his compelling life story into the fabric of our daily lives. He teaches his audience to be courageous, to aim high, to achieve and actively make an impact on the world.
It isn’t just his great smile and his way with words that motivates people to take action like never before; when people face roadblocks or adversity it is the depth of his knowledge on achievement that creates lasting results.
As one of the UK’s top motivational speakers, Errol Lawson is a dynamic personality and highly-sought-after resource in organisations and schools looking to motivate and engage their leaders or students and see them perform at their highest potential. For more than 15 years he has not only studied the science of achievement, he’s mastered it by interviewing successful national and international leaders and collaborating with them to bring transformation in the lives of young people and leaders around the world.
As a Speaker and leading authority on achievement – Errol Lawson energises people to meet the challenges of the world around them. He skilfully weaves his compelling life story into the fabric of our daily lives. He teaches his audience to be courageous, to aim high, to achieve and actively make an impact on the world.
It isn’t just his great smile and his way with words that motivates people to take action like never before; when people face roadblocks or adversity it is the depth of his knowledge on achievement that creates lasting results.
Léonce Crump Jr., is an author, international speaker, and the founder and senior pastor of Renovation Church in Atlanta. In 2006, Crump answered God’s call to relocate from Tennessee to Atlanta and begin the process of planting Renovation Church. He details the obstacles he and his family faced and the revelations he uncovered during this process in Renovate: Changing Who You Are by Loving Where You Are (Multnomah Books, Feb. 16, 2016). A champion for the Church’s participation in focused and intentional cultural renewal, Crump is the leading voice of a generation committed to operating as God’s redemptive agents in the earth.
“I hope to inspire you,” Crump says. “I hope you leave these few pages with a renewed sense of your ability to influence and shape culture, your ability and calling to renew this world and promote human flourishing for God’s glory and the common good. I hope you walk away from this book believing that cultural renewal is not only the responsibility of the Christian but also the most freeing way you can turn your quiet longing into discernible action.”
His unique background includes contacts from the world of professional sports and the music industry. At the University of Oklahoma, Crump was an All-American wrestler and defensive end for the Sooner football team; he went on to play professional football for the New Orleans Saints. He has been in ordained ministry for nine years and holds graduate degrees from the University of Tennessee and Resurgence Theological Training Center. He is currently a Master of Divinity student at Reformed Theological Seminary and a member of the Acts 29 church planting network. He and his wife, Breanna, reside in the heart of downtown Atlanta with their three daughters and son.
As one of the UK’s top motivational speakers, Errol Lawson is a dynamic personality and highly-sought-after resource in organisations and schools looking to motivate and engage their leaders or students and see them perform at their highest potential. For more than 15 years he has not only studied the science of achievement, he’s mastered it by interviewing successful national and international leaders and collaborating with them to bring transformation in the lives of young people and leaders around the world.
As a Speaker and leading authority on achievement – Errol Lawson energises people to meet the challenges of the world around them. He skilfully weaves his compelling life story into the fabric of our daily lives. He teaches his audience to be courageous, to aim high, to achieve and actively make an impact on the world.
It isn’t just his great smile and his way with words that motivates people to take action like never before; when people face roadblocks or adversity it is the depth of his knowledge on achievement that creates lasting results.
Greg and Julie Gorman provide life-transforming content and coaching for your business and life. They write, produce, and host weekly broadcasts and hold certifications from the Patterson Center, Dr. John Maxwell, and Personality Insights Institute. As executive coaches, trainers and speakers, Greg and Julie share together internationally and have enjoyed sharing the platform with many well-known speakers such as Les Brown, John Maxwell, and many more. Together, Greg and Julie coach and inspire individuals, organizations, and couples to maximize their potential and embrace life to the fullest.
Dr. Ivan Misner is the Founder and Chief Visionary Officer of BNI, the world’s largest business networking organization. BNI was founded in 1985. The organization now has over 8,000 chapters throughout every populated continent of the world. In 2015, BNI Members generated more than $11.1 billion in closed business.
Dr. Misner’s Ph.D. is from the University of Southern California. He is a New York Times Bestselling author who has written 21 books including his latest release, “Who’s In Your Room?” He is a columnist for Entrepreneur.com and has taught business management at several universities throughout the United States. In addition, he is the Senior Partner for the Referral Institute – a referral training company with trainers around the world.
Called the “Father of Modern Networking” by CNN and one of the “Top Networking Experts to Watch” by Forbes, Dr. Misner is considered to be one of the world’s leading experts on business networking and has been a keynote speaker for major corporations and associations throughout the world. He has been featured in the L.A. Times, Wall Street Journal, and New York. Times, as well as numerous TV and radio shows including MSNBC, CNN, the BBC and The Today Show on NBC.
Dr. Misner is on the Board of Trustees for the University of La Verne. He is also the Co-Founder of the BNI Charitable Foundation and was recently named “Humanitarian of the Year” by the Red Cross and awarded the John C. Maxwell Leadership award. He and his wife, Elisabeth, are now “empty nesters” with three grown children.
An ordained minister (IFCC and CEEC) who has been actively involved in Christian ministry since becoming born again in 1986. He completed a 1-year community based evangelistic program travelling throughout the United Kingdom, pioneered a church in South Birmingham and Lincoln, UK and was the Assistant Pastor and Church Administrator in a large and fast-growing church in Bristol. He has taught in various Bible Colleges and taught across Europe and Africa in many conferences training and empowering many Pastors and Leaders. He has worked across the denominational barriers directing youth work, children’s ministry and worship teams, having been a musician for over 30 years.
I am happily married to my husband Ron, have two married children, two grand daughters and two grand dogs.
I currently live in Winter Haven, FL where I cherish time with family and friends. While the bright Florida skies daily energize me, I secretly dream of owning a cabin in the mountains one day.
People who know me say that I am both a gifted listener and communicator. Drawing out people’s deepest dreams and helping that dream become a reality is one of my greatest delights.
Chris Widener is widely recognized as one of the top speakers in the world today. He has spoken all over the world in places like Germany, Spain, Russia, China, Egypt, Singapore, Australia and of course, all over the United States and Canada. Chris speaks to groups as small as 100 and as large as 25,000 people.
Jekalyn Carr, is a profound speaker and singer. Carr burst on the music scene in 2013 with the poignant and powerful Billboard Top 5 single, “Greater Is Coming,” which showcased a vocal ability and intensity far beyond her 15 years. Her most recent monumental milestones are being nominated for five
Stellar Awards and receiving a GRAMMY nomination for "Best Gospel
Song/Performance" for her Billboard#1 single "You're Bigger" which was
also named the #2 Most Play Gospel Song at Radio this year by Billboard
Magazine in the "Year-End" issue. "You're Bigger" maintained a Top 5 position on the chart for over 31 consecutive weeks. "You're Bigger" is lifted
from Carr's album THE LIFE PROJECT, which debuted at #1
on Billboard's Top Gospel Albums chart. Jekalyn is featured in a movie that will be soon. released by Sony called Never Heard. She has written her first book called You Will Win and it will be released very soon.
This embryonic artist’s burgeoning national acclaim was evinced when she received the distinct honor of being named a POWER 100 by EBONY MAGAZINE in 2014 as one of the most influential people in the world. She was on the same list as Beyonce, Bishop T.D. Jakes, Lebron James, and Quincy Jones to name a few. Jekalyn Carr encompasses the right kind of substance in which great Gospel artists are made. She understands the dynamic and sacrifices she has to make for her ministry and platform, and she does them willingly, because her focus is on the greater good—impacting people. Her gift, passion, character, integrity, talent, and sacrifice is evident in everything she does.
Originally joining Arena Church in 2000, Kristian has led the church since 2007. In this time the church has dramatically changed, actively engaging in the community and becoming fully relevant to modern lives whilst developing a pioneering vision.
Kristian has been married to Caroline since 1992 and they have 4 children. He is a passionate supporter of Liverpool FC and Miami Heat, and his heroes include General William Booth and Kenny Dalglish. His other interests include jazz music, spicy foods, and sunshine holidays.
He loves life, loves the church, and believes in teamwork.
As CEO of Ziglar and key collaborator on his father’s 30th book, Born to Win,
Tom Ziglar carries on the organization’s “profoundly simple” philosophy:
“You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” Tom shares this lesson with billion-dollar companies, small-business owners, and prestigious academic institutions, allowing thousands of clients to take their business further than they ever dreamed possible.
The world hungers for inspiration, motivation, and hope.
With Tom’s innovation and world-class coaching, Ziglar is the go-to resource.
Danielle Strickland serves in The Salvation Army as an Officer – currently based in Toronto, Canada. Danielle loves Jesus and she loves people. Her aggressive compassion has loved people firsthand in countries all over the world where she has embraced, served, cared, evangelized, taught, and exhorted individuals and crowds to surrender to the boundless love of Jesus.
She loves the more fragile in communities around the world. Over the years that has led her to back alleys and late night streets to partner with Jesus in rescuing those caught up in drugs and homelessness, prostitution and despair. It has led her to the halls of government and corridors of commercial power to see laws changed and practices transformed so that people aren’t trafficked and children aren’t enslaved.
She has sought to cultivate authentic Christian community in deprived neighborhoods on the way to loving the last, the lost and the least into God’s Kingdom.
Danielle loves the Body of Christ. God is using her to help equip followers of Jesus in discipleship, holiness, justice, and evangelism by teaching, preaching, and writing.
And, Strickland loves her family – redeemed from the clutches of the enemy, generational addiction and violence, she and her husband are bringing up their children in the fear and friendship of the Lord.
Danielle’s has written:
- Just Imagine: the social justice agenda
- Challenging Evil: Dispatches from the front lines of radical justice
- The Liberating Truth: How Jesus Empowers Women
- A Beautiful Mess; How God recreates our Lives
- Boundless; living life in overflow
- The Ultimate Exodus: Finding Freedom From What Enslaves You
Danielle is passionately committed to seeing God’s Kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven, is married, and is the mother of three boys.
Errol Lawson shares sone insights on mentorship in thishort bonus podcast.
To find out more about the business advancement workshop in Birmingham, UK on the 16th decemberclick here https://errollawson.lpages.co/errol/
The results you are getting from your membership and subscription program are a direct correlation of the strategies and systems you have in place. You’re currently getting what your program is built for.
Scott Whitaker can help you implement the “Seven Systems of a Growing Membership Business.” These seven systems are already at work in your business, whether you realize it or not. Every membership and subscription business has:
1. Content (what, when and how you deliver your membership to members)
2. Assimilation (getting new members to become fully-engaged in your program)
3. Marketing (getting prospects and turning them into members)
4. Retention (keeping members for the long-haul)
5. Ascension (getting members to upgrade their membership)
6. Strategy (constantly evaluating and improving your membership business)
7. Leadership (growing your personal leadership so that your business will grow)
Every activity in your membership and subscription business involves one of these seven systems.
Scott’s strategic mind and use of these seven systems have been growing and building membership businesses regardless of their niche. He is the founder of Why People Quit, Inc. where he coaches membership business owners on how to get new members, reduce churn and increase profits.
He is the author of “Why People Quit Your Membership Program & What You Can Do About It” and an online course “Seven Systems of a Growing Membership Business.”
Scott has led membership organizations in both non-profit and for profit companies since 1997. He’s noted for having built the largest for profit coaching network for pastors of churches; growing from just 72 pastors a year to over 3,000 pastors a year.
Scott and his wife Kelly have been married for over 20 years and have two daughters. They enjoy traveling and experiencing local cuisine.
I coach, train, write and speak on productivity. I help people adopt new ways of working and thinking about their work to replace stress, overwhelm and frustration with success, sanity and satisfaction. I’m naturally disorganised. My passion for productivity began when I got fed up of saying “I haven’t got enough time.” Impatience is what drove me to get good at getting things done. I wasn’t willing to put life on hold so I juggle my business, family, community and social life on a daily basis – and not necessarily in that order. Now I absolutely love helping people live the life they want in the time that they have.
As a qualified coach, NLP practitioner and DiSC trainer, I bring both a psychological and a practical perspective to productivity. My clients tell me I have a knack for helping them untangle their thoughts and get to the heart of what’s getting in their way. My commitment is to leave people feeling better than before. For some it’s about becoming calmer, more at ease, and in control. For others the aim is to get fired up, focused and ready to take action. Whatever your productivity goal, we’ll work together to develop the insights, skills and strategies you need to be clear and confident with your way forward.
Lee Button, based in the UK, spent six years as Operations Director at New Community Network and Pioneer Trust. With a Business Degree and 17 years of experience spanning corporate and third sector settings, he facilitates Strategic Thinking, Service Design, and Digital Transformation projects, helping organisations create their preferred future. Lee also delivers training, coaching, and serves on the leadership team of New Community Eastleigh.
Shae Bynes is a passionate storyteller, best-selling author, engaging teacher and mentor whose life and business were completely transformed through the power of encountering the unrelenting love of God. She is on a mission to help people experience God’s best in their business and family lives.
Both a minister and business owner, Shae equips and ignite entrepreneurs in the marketplace, as well as married couples inside and outside of the bedroom (through a growing marriage ministry with her hubby and high school sweetheart Phil).
Shae is a native Floridian and admittedly addicted to sunshine and water. She happily calls the Fort Lauderdale area her home and cherishes her roles as wife and mom of 3.
Since the late 90’s Jim & his team have been on a mission to help entrepreneurs THRIVE by combining classic business truths with cutting edge creative online strategies. They now boast over 1,000 documented success stories from entrepreneurs and businesses around the world, but they are just getting started!
Jim was ranked among the most trusted Internet Marketers in the world (among hundreds of ‘experts’ his name keeps showing up on top) according to the 40,000 voting members of an independent watch dog service. His best selling book “Silent Sales Machine” has been read by an estimated 800,000 people around the world and is a consistent top 10 seller on Amazon in the Internet business category. You can get two free chapters here to see if it’s for you.
His business mission in life is to assist those who have an entrepreneurial heart and help them build sustainalbe income streams online. Because he believes online is where the most compelling business opportunities in the business world reside, he focuses his study and business models on what he calls, “the most effective communication and relationship building tool ever given to mankind – the Internet.”
He doesn’t simply teach multiple income streams strategies – he lives it! He’s been actively selling on Amazon & eBay (since 1997), a publishing company, a consulting company, two membership sites with tens of thousands of paid members at MySilentTeam.com and OfflineBiz.com and several other related income streams. Along with his two closest partners (Nathan Bailey & Brett Bartlett) Jim helps run a combined $25 million annual sales empire.
A large network of his former students turned partners & coaches are a part of the team of more than 70 people who, while all running successful businesses online themselves, also help coach others do the same (See JimCockrumCoaching.com). His 30,000 member free Facebook community actively and freely assist any online seller, author or entrepreneur with online business questions.
Chris Niemeyer founded MissionTravel.org in 2006. Their passion for missions and travel formed the idea of serving the travel needs of those serving the world. Chris loves to travel and has been to nearly 30 countries – with another 100+ countries on his bucket list. He’s a group travel specialist and cruise group guru – putting together conferences at sea for businesses and other affinity groups. For some strange reason, Chris’ interests start with the letter “f” – faith, family, friends, food, fitness, finance & far-off places. Outside of work, he’s likely being tackled by and playing with his 4 young kids or coaching their sport activities.
Andrew Scott, Missions Mobilizer - Helping people connect to their purpose.
As a child growing up in a small, coastal town in Northern Ireland, Andrew learned from his parents about God’s heart for the nations. It is no wonder, then, that at 19 he left home to serve overseas. Now, 52 countries later and after serving with OM for a number of years on the ship Doulos, Andrew serves as Field Leader in the US. He and his wife, Sharon, have two children. In 1995, he completed his theological training and served as an associate pastor in Northern Ireland for three years.
“Before we were created, God thought of how He would use us to fulfill His purposes, and then He made us accordingly. He not only made us for a purpose, He then gave us His Holy Spirit to enable us to live that purpose out for His Glory. My passion is to share this message.”
Dr. Don Brawley III is a Leadership Strategist who helps influencers reach their dreams faster. He is the founder and CEO of Influencers Global, a company committed to helping leaders increase their influence, income, and impact for God’s Kingdom. He along with his wife Mona are the founding pastors of Canaan Land Church International a thriving ministry in suburban Atlanta, Georgia.
Dr. Don earned his Masters of Organizational Leadership (2004) & Doctorate in Strategic Leadership, with a coaching emphasis (2008), from Regent University’s School of Business and Leadership.
Dr. Don travels nationally and abroad consulting and coaching pastors, marketplace and non-profit leaders, facilitating leadership roundtables, and delivering motivational, practical and inspiring messages. He’s a highly sought after consultant, coach, and conference speaker. He’s trained leaders for Fortune 500 companies such as UPS and educational institutions such as The University of Phoenix.
Additionally, Dr. Brawley has published several works. He co-authored, Weathering the Storm: Leading in Uncertain Times with Dr. Samuel R. Chand. The book has become a favorite on four continents and has recently been translated to Portuguese.
In March 2015, he was honored, with a resolution, by the Georgia House of Representatives for his leadership accomplishments. Later in 2015, Dr. Don made history when he held the first ever global online conference in the Kingdom spanning 6 days across 3 continents. In 2016, Dr. Don was invited to be an executive coach for the inaugural Sam Chand Leadership Institute.
Don has been married to his high school sweetheart Mona for over 27 years. Together they are the proud parents of three children: Brandon (Kristie), Chantelle, and Aaron.
For more information concerning Don Brawley you may visit
www.canaanlandchurch.org | www.influencersglobal.com |
Revd Doug Williams
The East-end of London has always been seen as the home of some pretty ‘dodgy geezers’, thankfully, Doug Williams is not one of them!
As the Senior Pastor of Emmanuel Christian Centre, a large and thriving inner-city church, Doug has to have a clear head and a heart for challenge.
“All the diversity that our church deals with is a constant source of… creative challenge,” Doug quips, “but I love every minute!” Training at Spurgeon’s College was a major part of his academic preparation for the task, but learning is a lifelong pursuit for this minister.
Local church work is part of the big picture of Christian leadership for Doug as previously he served his denomination, the AOG (Assemblies of God), as part of their overall National Leadership Team. He is also former Superintendent for Greater London region as part of the same denomination.
“I love the opportunity to serve in a wider context that our local church and the national and international invitations are a wonderful opportunity for me, but my heart is never far from home. The local church really is the hope of the world. Our Church seeks to be a safe place for kids, a supportive place for parents, a welcoming place for visitors, an exciting place for teenagers, a friendly place for Senior Citizens and a home for the Community. We believe that, real life is worth celebrating, so we do! With excellent music, passionate and relevant preaching, great social gatherings for food and friendship and all kinds of activity, church has never looked so good….
Doug is a well respected and much sought after Christian motivational speaker, with strong teaching gifts and an apostolic calling to leaders.
He travels widely internationally, to conduct leadership training sessions, church retreats and men's conferences. He is a singer/ songwriter and has played with numerous gospel artistes and singers, and his own band called "Raize". They have also recorded several CD's.
“My musical focus now,” says Doug, “is all about worship that is truly God-centred, and how to find and develop the ‘voice’ of our church in declaring that. Each church I know has a unique blend of people and preferences, seeing how all that gets expressed in worship is an exciting journey.”
Doug is married to Joan and they have four children.
Tony Lynch from Keep Thinking Bigis an International Business Development Trainer and Coach with more than 30 years’ experience helping Entrepreneurs, Managers, Leaders and Sales Professionals create a competitive advantage in today’s crowded marketplace.
Tony has spoken in multiple countries, is a TEDx speaker,as well as being featured by INC in ‘100 Great Leadership Speakers for Your Next Conference’.
As a competent motivational trainer he helps his clients to have a winning strategy to enjoy greater influence, impact and income.
Tony serves on the President Advisory Council for The John Maxwell Team as well as being a Peer Teaching Partner.
He also serves as the Chairman on the Simulcast Advisory Council for The John Maxwell Company as well as being part of the Global Leaders Alliance.
Tony lives in England and has been married for 32 years to Sally and has 2 children and 3 grandchildren.
Shawn Q helps christian entrepreneurs, coaches, business leaders & ministries use the internet to build instant authority, make more money, and enjoy a greater life of generosity through faith, psychology & marketing. He is an author, international speaker, bible-believing coach & lover of Jesus Christ. You can find him most in his Facebook Group of over 2,300 christian entrepreneurs at www.sqtribe.com.
In this Episode you will learn more about The 5 Core abilities of Highly Effective Christian Leaders and Entrepreneurs and how you can apply them to your life as a Christian leader or Entrepreneur.
The 5 Core Abilities of Highly Effective Christian Leaders and Entrepreneurs is the title of Errol's soon to be released book.
Stay tuned for more updates
Amongst other things Andy has spent the last 20 years with the IM Group in the role of group Managing Director. The IM Group is responsible for Subaru, Isuzu and Great Wall Motor brands across many European markets and has a portfolio of properties across the world managed by IM Properties. Andy has helped steer the company through economic difficulties, while at the same time preparing for the next phase of its growth.
Outside of this with his wife Alison, he has established a charity called 'Imagine the Day' and helped to pioneer the Mosaic Church in Coventry. They have five children together.
Go to www.strengthleader.com/rising for your free gift from Deb that will help you to lead with your own strengths.
Deb Ingino is the CEO of Strength Leader Development. A highly sought-after executive mentor, consultant and speaker worldwide, Deb is well versed in business operations and in the importance of asking key questions most business leaders won’t ask themselves. She brings deep experience in leadership development, strategy, high performance team building, global operations, brand management, design, product development and training to her work. Her passion is for leading people to discover and maximize their strengths as well as those of fellow team members, while offering advanced strategies to achieve high performance.
Deb knows first-hand how strengths and leadership are keys to business effectiveness and growth. Her skills were honed through over two decades as VP of Global Brand Operations for Marchon Eyewear. In that senior corporate leadership capacity, Deb worked throughout the world to create and develop leaders, and to seed and nurture teams that now serve retailers in more than 80 countries.
Deb has shepherded the training of more than 1,000 global team members in 7 languages. This work enabled Marchon to grow in value from $50M to well over $500M. She was recognized in 2008 and 2010 by the Long Island Business News as one of the “50 Most Influential Women in Business.”
Building on this success, Deb became a founding partner with her mentor, the renowned leadership expert John C. Maxwell. She is now a certified coach, speaker and trainer on Maxwell’s global team.
With a trademark direct yet relatable style, Deb shares practical steps and helps business leaders dig deep to find, develop and leverage their strengths and to move into the fullness of their own potential.
In this special edition of The Rising Generation podcast Errol shares on the topic of why you should publish a book in 2017.
Live webcast: "Why write a book in 2017"
You will learn:
- Why I wrote my first two books and the difference they have made
- My process for completing the writing of my latest book
- The benefits of you writing a book this year
- How to overcome the barriers to writing a book
Tune in and please share with your friends
Please send any questions you have to errol@errollawson.com
Episode 100!!
Errol Lawson
In this episode Errol shares the top 10 podcast episodes of 2016 and some top tips on how to plan for your ideal 2017.
If you are a regular podcast listener we would love to hear from you and even have you on the show in 2017. Please email Errol at Errol@errollawson.com to talk about the work you do and how e can get you on the podcast.
Have a great 2017!
Dan Miller, President of 48 Days LLC, specializes in creative thinking for increased personal and business success. He believes that meaningful work blends our natural skills and abilities, our unique personality traits and our dreams and passions. Dan is active in helping individuals redirect careers, evaluate new income sources, and achieve balanced living. He believes that a clear sense of direction can help us become all that God designed us to be. Dan is the author of the widely acclaimed 48 Days To The Work You Love and No More Mondays. He has been a guest on CBS’ ‘The Early Show,’ MSNBC’s ‘Hardball with Chris Mathews,’ and Fox Business News with Dave Ramsey Show…to hit some highlights. He hosts a weekly podcast that is consistently ranked #1 under Careers on iTunes. Dan is also a frequent speaker at conferences including Social Media Marketing World, Podcast Movement, New Media Europe, Launch and Coaching with Excellence. He also has an online community with over 15,000 active “eaglepreneurs”!
Tony L Brown, known as “The Systems Guy”, is a Business Systems Strategist, and Award winning Author, Speaker, Podcaster and Trainer.
He is the Author of "Standard Procedure" - How to Systemise your Business, Reduce your Workload, Increase your Productivity and Become Profitable.
Tony blogs and podcasts at TonyLBrown.com and is also the co host of Business Systems Explored Podcast.
Tony’s goal is to help small business entrepreneurs to develop systems and processes that will help them to run their business more efficiently, giving them more free and flexible time to spend doing the things they want to do.
Tony Brown the founder and Director of Operation at Youth Work Toolbox - A Youth Engagement Agency he started in 2012.
In 2014 - after 15 years of service - Tony left his full time job within local government to run that business full time.
He has since grown it to a team of over 15 people, who service a range of clients, delivering youth work projects across the UK.
In 2015 - Tony was able to travel around Jamaica with his family for 8 weeks - while still running his business remotely.
Tommy Xpensive (real name Tom Moutchi) is a young (22 years old) multi-talented Actor/writer/performer/comedian featured in Ventriloquist Love (2015) Raison D’etre (2015) and Balance (2014). Over the past few months Tom has rapidly become a household name amongst the under-25 UK demographic. Within the last year Toms’ social media profiles; Facebook, Instagram and Vine have received a large amount of attention due to the short comedic videos he posts featuring himself and his regular team of actors. Featuring witty takes on everyday situations, with a particular focus on the African diaspora audience; they have gained widespread positive attention from all around the globe. His Vines especially have gone viral on more than one occasion with this latest achieving over 30 million views. This has led to various media outlets such as SB.TV, New York based radio station Power105 and WorldStarHipHop to post Tom’s material on their social media profiles. Tom’s online presence and reputation increases at an impressive rate. From impressive 30K Instagram followers at the beginning of 2015 his following is currently over 60k. His Facebook Fan Page is also extremely popular; he has gained 80,000 subscribers and receives between 100k - 2.5M views for each short video he posts on his account. And when Unilad reposted one of his videos it gained 7 million views. In addition his Vine account has a strong presence too and he has 41k followers and has an overall total of 46 million loops. Tom is currently training at Identity Drama School to fulfil/polish is craft as an actor to in turn achieve his dream of being a world class Actor.
Hi, I’m Anthony Delaney. I was a police officer in the centre of Manchester for ten years before going into church leadership in various places around the nation. I’m now back in the city leading Ivy; a great network of churches meeting in various places including a cinema, a pub, a warehouse and even a church building. We recently featured in a six page colour supplement in The Independent newspaper.
I also lead NewThing EUROPE to recruit, encourage and train for church planters of 500 new reproducing churches across Europe in the next 5 years, as part of a vision to plant 10,000 new churches across the globe.
I’m married to Zoe, and have three great kids and 3 grand kids. I keep fit by swimming and swinging heavy kettlebells like a madman.
My books and resources aim to help people find their way back to God and live life to the full.
Please keep in touch and as long as you’re polite, I’ll do my best to reply.
Eric and Candace Johnson serve on the Senior Leadership Team at Bethel Church in Redding, California and are the Senior Pastors of the local church, Bethel Redding.
Eric is the eldest son of Bill and Beni Johnson. He is a sixth-generation minister and travels internationally speaking and ministering throughout the year. He has authored Momentum: What God Starts, Never Ends and Christ in You: Why God Trusts You More Than You Trust Yourself. Besides spending time with his family, Eric is a passionate sports fan and outdoorsman. He also prefers dessert before dinner. Always.
Candace is a native Northern Californian and graduated from Bethany University. Candace invests much of her time building up the local church community and believes community creates a foundation that sustains revival. She delights in the brilliant, dynamic team of people around her.
Eric and Candace have a passion to see transformation take place in the lives of people, cities and nations. They have two beautiful daughters that make them extremely proud parents.
Rev David Shosanya has been the LBA Regional Minister responsible for Mission since 2003. Previously he was the Minister of Chalk Farm Baptist Church. While at Chalk Farm he became engaged in a number of inter-agency approaches to tackling social issues for example in work with the Home Office Strategic Policy Team (regarding issues of youth offending), with the Metropolitan Police (involved in organising a conference funded by the Metropolitan Police Authority to explore issues around faith and criminal justice), with the London Civic Forum and the London Development Agency. In addition, David has contributed to press and media on a range of faith-related subjects and lectures on Social Exclusion and Diversity for Oasis Trust on their youth and ministry course.
Nyasha started her social entrepreneurial journey with a £800 redundancy package and abundant passion for children. She was a founder and campaigner for introducing independent children’s homes and fostering agencies to work in partnership with the public sector.
As a black African woman, she faced discrimination in her journey but sheer determination and passion saw her develop a successful social enterprise.
Nyasha is a founder and executive director of Banya Family Placement Agency (an independent fostering agency).
Over the past twenty years she has won and been a finalist of many business awards, varying from social enterprise of the year to businesswoman of the year for her work. She has also won charity awards for Vana Trust, a children’s charity she founded.
William R. Patterson is CEO of The Baron Solution Group and The Warcoffer Capital Group, LLC ("WCG"). He leads WCG's corporate strategy and development consulting efforts.
William is ranked as one of the top Business Motivational Speakers in the country by Ranking.com. He is a four-time award-winning lecturer and international best-selling author who uses his trademark approach, THE BARON SOLUTION™, to coach, train, and motivate small business owners, executives, sales professionals, and investors. He has shared the stage with billionaires, presidential candidates, and Fortune 100 CEOs.
William is an internationally recognized business coach and wealth coach who has written over 250 articles, created over 150 business and financial products and has been a featured guest on over 500 television and radio programs. He is a regular business and financial expert for networks such as CBS and SiriusXM Radio. He also writes for Inc. Magazine. William delivers solutions to millions worldwide — from individual investors and small business owners to corporate boards and CEOs.
William advises many nonprofit organizations. He sits on the Board of PCOS Challenge, Inc. He is also Executive Producer of the national award-winning cable television series, PCOS Challenge.
William was trained as an electrical engineer at Howard University and later created a niche in finance and media. Before launching WCG, he handled program management, strategic planning, and corporate training for a number of Fortune 500 information technology, investment banking, and financial services firms.
William was named a "Top 20 Business Icon" by Exceptional People Magazine and "Entrepreneur of the Year" by African American Lifestyle Magazine. He is also winner of over twelve Web awards for excellence including: Best Wealth-Building Site; Best Business Advice & Development Site; Best Male Author; and Best Speaker and Lecturer. His wins are the result of 650,000 votes cast from over 130 countries.
What is Prayer Storm? Prayer Storm is a movement of worship, prayer and fasting crying out to God for a great awakening in our Nation. Believing that intercession is more caught than taught, Prayer Storm events act as a catalyst for people to capture a new zeal for prayer. It all started off as a prayer meeting, with young people seeking the face of God and embracing the calling to be set apart for Him. We are being stirred to seek His face like never before. Our hunger for reaching more people for Jesus is leading us to a place of prayer and encouraging us to stand in the gap for our nation.
God wants us to be a people who pray not just because we should, but because it has become a part of our lifestyle, our way of being. There has never been a great move of God that was not first preceded by a great move of Prayer. John Wesley said, “God will do nothing on earth except in answer to believing prayer.”
Evangelist King lives in Atlanta, where she is the grateful mother of six and a doting grandmother.
Evangelist Alveda C. King works toward her purpose in life, to glorify God.
She currently serves as a Pastoral Associate and Director of Civil Rights for the Unborn, the African-American Outreach for Priests for Life and Gospel of Life Ministries. She is also a voice for the Silent No More Awareness Campaign, sharing her testimony of two abortions, God’s forgiveness, and healing.
The daughter of the late civil rights activist Rev. A.D. King and his wife Naomi Barber King, Alveda grew up in the civil rights movement led by her uncle, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Her family home in Birmingham, Alabama, was bombed, as was her father’s church office in Louisville, Kentucky. Alveda was jailed during the open housing movement. She sees the prolife movement as a continuation of the civil rights struggle.
Evangelist King is a former college professor and served in the Georgia State House of Representatives. She is a recipient of the Life Prize Award (2011), the Cardinal John O’Connor Pro-Life Hall of Fame Award (2011) from the Legatus organization and the Civil Rights Award from Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) (2011). She is a bestselling author; among her books are King Rules: Ten Truths for You, Your Family, and Our Nation to Prosper, How Can the Dream Survive if we Murder the Children? and I Don’t Want Your Man, I Want My Own. She is an accomplished actress and songwriter. The Founder of Alveda King Ministries, Alveda is also the recipient of an honorary Doctorate of Laws degree from Saint Anselm College. She has served on several boards, including Heartbeat International, Georgia Right to Life, MLK Center, Bible Curriculum in Public Schools and Abortion Recovery International (ARIN). She is also a member of the National Black Prolife Coalition (NBPC) and is a Senior Fellow with the Howard Center for Family, Religion & Society. Alveda is a regular columnist for Newsmax.com “Insiders” section and a Fox News contributor.
Akomaye Ugar is a prolific writer, Leadership and personal development consultant, value-powered speaker, and pastor. Though based in Calabar, Nigeria, he travels internationally on regular speaking schedules especially to the United States of America and the United Kingdom.
MINISTRY PASSION: Helping believers discover themselves in the Word, empowering and mentoring them to release their purpose with excellence.
MINISTRY THRUST: An apostolic commision to empower with light, raise, and release men into their God-ordained destinies.
PROFESSIONAL BIAS: Akomaye Ugar, speaks, trains and mentors in areas covering leadership, personal development and effectiveness, and entrepreneurship. These resources are usually offered through a wide range of Schools namely: School of Mentorship, School of Emerging Legendary Leaders,School of Etiquette and social Savvy.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL RESOURCES INCLUDE: * Public Speaking and Oratory Skills * Professional Writing Skills * Dinning and Social Etiquette Skills * The Mini Finishing School * Basic Business Sense * Idea Development and Strategy Management * Basic Adminisprudence * Self Improvement Training programme * Job Creation Dynamics * Customer Service Excellence * Personal Branding Techniques * Principles of Demand and Supply, and many others
Diana Mao is dedicated to economically and socially empowering survivors of human trafficking. She is experienced in governmental consulting, domestic and international economic development, social entrepreneurship, and microfinance. She has a degree in business economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a master’s degree in public administration with a specialization in international management from New York University’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Diana is a recent graduate of the Presidential Leadership Scholars Program, a Co-Chair for the Nexus Human Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery Working Group, an advisory board member of the Equality Fund, and a former mentor for The Bush Center Women's Initiative Fellowship.
Alissa Ayako Williams is deeply passionate about women’s empowerment, civil rights, and social justice. Her vocational calling was shaped by service opportunities with InterVarsity and Radical Living NY. She has deep experience in nonprofit governance, grassroots advocacy, research, grantmaking and facilitating diversity initiatives. She has a degree in theatre and American studies from Skidmore College, was the recipient of the Margaret Ellen Clifford Memorial Prize for excellence in theatre, and was a two-time TCG Leadership University Grantee through the Mellon Foundation. She recently graduated from Faith In NY’s Prophetic Leadership School, and she lives in Brooklyn with her husband.
As a child Kingsley Kwayisi was saved from abortion and placed in a family to flourish. His hope is to see every child f
ind a family to flourish as God intended for them. His life goal is to use it for finishing the work assigned to him by the Lord Jesus Christ—the work of serving Christ and His Kingdom and promoting its purpose and plans in his generation. Kingsley Kwayisi holds honors in Bachelor of Science in Material Science and Engineering from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana; a Diploma in Communication from University of Ghana, a Post Graduate Certificate in Marketing Management, Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Ghana, Pastoral Leadership Certificate with Calvary Leadership Institute (CLI), Master of Divinity, Regent University, Ghana , Billy Graham Scholar for Global Leadership, Master of Art in Leadership and Evangelism, Wheaton College. USA Kinsley serves as a Marketing and Project Manager in Corporate Ghana for over five years. He also worked on staff for Ghana Fellowship of Evangelical Students (GHAFES), a member of IFES. Young Adult Pastor, Calvary Baptist Church Accra, Ghana. He is a Certified Leadership Coach with John Maxwell Leadership Centre and serves as a volunteer for the Scripture Union Ghana, Bible Society of Ghana and Intervarsity, USA. Short Term Missionary, to Cote D' Ivoire, Liberia, Gambia, and the Midwest, USA. He is a conference and inspirational speaker for emerging leaders across West Africa and Midwest America. Kingsley is married to Dr. Afua Kwayisi and gifted with a daughter, Awuradeama Kwayisi.
Michael Hastings is KPMG’s Global Head of Citizenship and Diversity. He was previously the BBC’s first Head of Corporate Social Responsibility. Michael is a non-executive Director of British Telecom (on the Board for Responsible and Sustainable Business) and a Trustee of the Vodafone Group Foundation. He represents KPMG International on the Global Corporate Citizenship International Committee of the World Economic Forum and the World Business Council on Sustainable Development. In 2009 he became a Member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Council on Diversity and Talent.
In January 2003, Michael was awarded a CBE in recognition of his services to crime reduction, including 15 years as Chairman of Crime Concern. He was formerly an adviser to Lord John Stevens QPM, the former London Metropolitan Police Commissioner and served on the Commission for Racial Equality.
In 2005, Michael was awarded the honour of an independent peerage to the House of Lords by Her Majesty The Queen and now Michael serves as a member of the Communications Select Committee. Again in 2005, he received the UNICEF award for his ‘outstanding contribution to understanding and effecting solutions for Africa’s children’.
John Finkelde is the founder of Grow a Healthy Church.
After pastoring for 30 years at C3 Church Hepburn Heights he now partners with pastors to grow healthy churches, ministering in Australia and internationally.
He has been married for 38 years, has two married children and dotes on his grandsons, Jack, Rhys and Archer.
John has a Masters in Leadership and has authored 5 books.
He loves shooting things (with a camera), and in summer he can be seen thrashing around ineffectively in the surf at Scarborough Beach.
Words that describe that John – family guy, humorous, practical, insightful, loyal, loves the church, passionate.
Jonathan Oloyede is the key catalyst for the National Day of Prayer and Worship. His vision is to see the United Kingdom saturated with prayer. He initiated the Year for London and National Canopy of Prayer which was a five year long daily 24-hr prayer chain for the Nation..This prayer initiative has held and supported several stadium events including Wembley 2012 where tens of thousands of people have gathered in unity to pray and worship.
He was ordained into Pastoral Ministry in 1993 at Glory Bible Church where he served in full-time ministry for 15years. His versatile abilities enabled him to serve in various capacities including Church Administrator, Associate Pastor, Senior Associate Pastor, Principal of the College of Ministry and Executive Director for Community Projects Development..
As a regular Radio and TV personality, he is a well known leader, writer and spokesperson within Black Majority Churches, Historic Churches and the Charismatic/Evangelical community. He is a popular events speaker at conferences across the Nation and internationally including Spring Harvest, Newwine, Soul Survivor, and Festival of Life amongst others.
Jonathan is blissfully married to Abbiih and lives in Kent with his two lovely children: Samuel and Hanita. He is a sports enthusiast, loves reading history and is fanatical about Scrabble.
Jonathan can be contacted via email on: pastorjonathan@ndopw.com
Ken Davis is one of the country’s most sought after motivational and inspirational speakers. His mixture of side-splitting humor and his powerful insights on living fully alive have inspired audiences around the world.
Okay! I confess that I actually wrote the above sentence. However, I could not bear to begin the sentence with, “I am one of the most sought after speaker in the universe etc” But I can’t pretend someone else is writing this, so here goes.
I am an award winning author of 12 books. The film “Fully Alive” based on my latest book by the same name was shown in theaters across the U.S. and is now enjoying a popular run on Netflix. I have kept a full calendar speaking to a diverse group of corporate and faith based audiences around the world.
I am president of Ken Davis Productions and Lighten Up ministries which produce inspirational, and motivational live shows, DVDs, books, seminars and conferences designed to make a positive difference in the quality of people’s lives.
I was born in beautiful Northern Minnesota and lived there until my blood began to freeze. I now live in Franklin TN with my wife Diane.
I am in love with one wife, Diane, five grandchildren, and two daughters. Because I love those people so much I have decided to let my two sons in law live. I am an intensely competitive athlete with no athletic ability to back it up. I regularly compete in triathlons, play racquetball, try to work out an hour a day and occasionally sleep in. I excel at competitive sleeping.
The Dallas Morning News said of me, “One of the funniest comedians to come down the pike.” but that was 30 years ago. I’ve gotten much better since then.
Boastful resume and attempts at humorous self deprecation aside, I can promise you this. Whether you bring my live show to your community, decide to spice up your next corporate convention, or invite me to speak to your church community, I will custom design an unforgettable experience that will leave you laughing, thinking and ready to live more fully alive.
I love seeing auditoriums of people laugh until they require medical attention, I love to awaken in my audience the courage to raise above circumstances and the passion to live Fully Alive! Something tells me that the same desire burns in you as well.
"Dealing with capacity blockers" - was a faith based workshop that Errol delivered on the 12th October 2016. Your capacity is your tapped power, your unreached ability, your hidden talent, your unrecognised gifts. Capacity blockers are the things that prevent you from releasing your full capacity. The feedback has been great so I have made the recording and some of the Q and A at the end available to all.
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With a background of church planting and evangelism in over 30 yrs of ministry, Tim has a passion for mission and seeing Good News come to people’s lives. He has travelled overseas extensively during this time but also is passionate about the UK. He served as National church planting director for AoG GB for 11yrs and is currently partnerships director for Compassion UK with a mandate to stir the church in their response to injustice and poverty and bringing about transformation in the lives of the poor. He is a great communicator of the Word using humour and stories and has an incredible heart for the ‘least of these’
Tim is married to Sonya and they have 3 children and 2 grandchildren. He loves jazz, rock, comedy, curry, Cornwall and Manchester Utd.
Extensive experience
Andrew has been business coaching since 1998 and has an extensive experience working with a diverse range of clients worldwide. He initially started working with high-end compliance clients (aviation, mining, law, medicine, engineering etc) and developed an award winning theory of leadership development based on five traits of highly effective leaders.
Click here to view and download Andrew’s information sheet.
8 Reasons you would chat with Andrew
- I am a qualified, multi-award-winning business and leadership coach.
- I specialise in working with ambitious owner/managers running established 6, 7 and 8 figure businesses.
- I have a proven ability to help a diverse range of clients achieve professional and personal goals.
- I focus on your immediate needs to ensure you meet you strategic goals.
- The award winning Business Leadership Profile benchmarking tool identifies strengths and weaknesses and key coaching targets.
- I focus on helping clients improve business performance, operational efficiencies, build high-performing teams and develop your skills and abilities as a business leader.
- My clients find the coaching refreshingly challenging and they consistently achieve meaningful results.
- Andrew is a #1 ranked business author. Click here to view and purchase
Andrew’s books–Don’t Start Yet and The Money Chimp.
Want a snapshot?
- Award Winning – 7 Industry Awards and Endorsements.
- Typical clients – owner/managing directors running established 6, 7 and 8 figure businesses
- Diverse experience – Clients in UK, USA, Australia, Mexico, Singapore, Canada and Europe in a diverse range of industries from SMEs to Corporate.
- Qualified – Industrial and Organisational Psychology
- Learning and Development – offers refreshingly challenging Business Leadership Training
- Relevant – Ambitious business owners running 6, 7 and 8 figure companies
- Specialist – resolving C-Suite leadership issues
- Grey Hair – With 20+ years working with leaders across 50+ industries in 11 countries
- Highly sought after keynote speaker and trainer.
Awards
- 2012 Key Person of Influence Programme endorsed by Institute Leadership and Management (ILM)
- 2011 Runner Up, Sales Professional of the Year/British Excellence in Sales and Marketing Awards (ISMM)
- 2004 Australasian Student Entrepreneur Awards SEANZ – Executive Coaching
- 2003 Queensland Premiers Smart State Awards (Finalist) Professional Services
- 2003 Australian Micro Business Awards – Coaching (NT/Qld)
- 2002 Australian Micro Business Awards – Service (NT/Qld)
- 1998 GIO Excellence in Business Awards – Service (+ Design Solutions, Australia)
NB: ALL awards subject to strict criteria, detailed submissions and peer review.
Described by many as a ‘Rock Star’ International Speaker, Camilita Nuttall is the Master Motivator, award winning corporate sales trainer, executive business mentor, entrepreneur, investor and soon to be best selling author, whose goal is to teach people around the world how to ‘LIVE LIKE A CHAMPION’.
Known as an inspiration, Camilita’s straight talking, bold, highly infectious personality, that brims with passion, has motivated thousands across the world over the last 12 years. Her think-big, no-nonsense approach, coupled with warmth and humour, will leave you challenged and transformed, ready to achieve extraordinary things. You will learn to implement her Who – What – Why – When and How principles and HOW to ‘Fight for Your Future’, that can guarantee success in your life and business.
Camilita has empowered her audience from South by South West in Austin Texas, BBC WM, Bahamas TV & Radio, Birmingham City University Business School and EBW2020. Camilita has been featured in Forbes June 2016 Issue on How to Use Events to Increase Your PR & Celebrate Business and Global Woman Magazines in the USA & Europe and is currently on the Council of Reference for Premier Radio in the UK.
Life has its character building challenges which have assisted in shaping our lives and businesses this far.
It is not what happens to you but what happens within you that is important and it is really up to us to choose how to live our lives, whether we move forward to a full and productive life or, whether we relive our past like a daily history lesson….
“To be able to give more, we must become more”
After years of coaching training I joined the John Maxwell Team where I am grateful to be part of their Mentorship program as well as having Les Brown as my Speaking Mentor and received Specialist training through Global Priority Solutions.
One of my most amazing and life changing experiences so far was the great honor to join a team of 150 JMT coaches and trainers in Guatemala to train more than 20,000 Leaders from all walks of life on Transformational Leadership using the very simple but highly effective Round Table concept.
Through the tears in the eyes of the leaders in that beautiful country, it confirmed what I always knew my burning passion was…to empower you to lead your team, your company, your country…..and provide much needed support and encouragement for our youth.
Being certified and equipped with all the tools the John Maxwell team and Global Priority Solutions provide, I feel I can assist you with your challenges and aim to serve you with coaching, training and motivational speaking/teaching ...to add value to you and your organization, to work together towards the solutions you desire, and empower you to reach your untapped potential and beyond.
Philippa Hanna is an acclaimed British singer-songwriter, based in Sheffield, UK. Recorded in Nashville, her new album 'Speed Of Light' tackles the challenges of life head-on, offering listeners a message of hope in the face of adversity. Since her 2007 debut, Philippa has released several studio albums, an EP and a live DVD, and published two autobiographical books. As one of the most sought-after acoustic performers in the UK, she has opened tours for acts including Lionel Richie, Anastacia, Leona Lewis, Wet Wet Wet and Collabro.
Born into a musical family, Philippa knew from an early age that that making music was all she wanted to do. Her music frequently draws upon her experiences of a turbulent youth, and the Christian faith she found in 2004. She aims to offer a positive message for fans: Songs like I Am Amazing and Raggedy Doll have seen Philippa champion self-esteem in young people, and she also works as an advocate for children's charity Compassion International.
Fans of Philippa can support her music, her mission and her new chapter Stateside through the innovative Rocket Fuel platform, for which she acted as a flagship artist: Pick up music, merchandise, handicrafts and more at rocketfuelhq.com/philippahanna .
Scot Longyear is the Sr. Pastor of Maryland Community Church (one of the fastest growing mega churches in the US) and serves as the Pastor for the Experience Conference. Residing in Terre Haute, Indiana, Scot lives to encourage, disciple, and resource people so they can take one step closer to Christ. Drawing upon decades of experience as a worship pastor, Scot authored Worship Leading Essentials. This tool has been used by leaders around the globe to build effective worship team. His daily radio feature, Scot’s Daily Word, provides quick inspiration for listeners who want to deepen their faith, even if they are short on time. In addition to Pastoring MCC and the Experience Conference, Scot has ateaching ministry where he keynotes conferences, retreats, and special events.
Without the support of his wife Stephanie, daughters Mariah and Madison, (and their spoiled mutt Nestle) Scot would be lost. They encourage him not only in ministry, but also in his adventuring spirit (he loves scuba diving and motorcycling). His family also puts up with his horrible video game skills and irrational fear of needles. Follow Scot on facebook and Twitter (@longyear). Check out www.scotlongyear.com to subscribe to his podcast, browse resources, and hopefully take a few steps closer to Jesus.
Jeremie Kubicek is an international speaker, author, and consultant to top-level executives and leaders around the world. He is a subject matter expert on organizational leadership, emotional intelligence, and interpersonal communication.
Jeremie’s first book, Making Your Leadership Come Alive, became a Wall Street Journal best seller. In 2015 he co-wrote the hit books, 5 Gears and the 5 Voices, which launched in the spring of 2016.
Jeremie is the former CEO over the brands, Leadercast, Catalyst and the John Maxwell training companies. He is also the co-founder of the GiANT companies. He speaks regularly in organizations of all sizes in the US and Europe.
He is currently CEO of GiANT Worldwide, with the mission to raise up liberating leaders who change their leadership cultures in every sector and city in the world.
Noel Robinson is an international worship leader, music pastor, songwriter and producer whose mandate is to see the body of Christ rise up in worship, intercession and unity in this generation. Noel has been involved in Worship ministry for over 20 years, and his ability to cross over the many cultural and diverse expressions of worship has allowed him to stand and lead at many leading events and conferences across the world. He has partnered with many ministries from Morris Cerrullo, Rienhard Bonnke, Spring Harvest, Baptist Assembly, AOG, Elim churches, Renewal Worship Encounters plus many more!
Noel is the founder of The Kingdom Worship Movement (KWM) and its flagship event "The Renewal Worship Encounters". He continues to work and be influential within the worship leaders fraternity, working with many of his peers like Graham Kendrick, Lara Martin, Israel Houghton, Ron Kenoly, Noel Richards, Mark Beswick, Godfrey Birtill, Matt Redman, Tim Hughes and Peter Wilson (Hillsong London), amongst others.
Noel began his musical career at the age of 6 playing the guitar. His gifting was recognised by His father and school who encouraged him to study guitar and piano.
By the time he was 13 he was playing double bass in his local school Orchestra and studying for Royal School of Music exams in Piano, Double Bass and Guitar. It's in the latter he excelled a grade 6 in Classical studies.
Noel’s musical journey took him around the world winning competions within His church denomination for his work on the Guitar and opening many doors within his church and other denominations.
He was sent by his school to study Jazz improvisation and composition at the prestigious Goldsmith Music College. He later became the Music and Communications Director of the Church of God of Prophecy.
During this season his heart for worship was developed, he bagan to play with Bishop John Francis and the Inspirational Choir, Graham Kendrick, Ron Kenoly and many leading exponents of Gospel Music in the UK and Europe.
Noel has become one of the pioneers of the British Gospel sound and expression, and continues to influence many young artists and musicians around the UK and Europe.
Noel's ministry has led him to set up The Kingdom Worship Movement (KWM), a ministry dedicated to training and equipping Worshippers of this generation with keys to releasing prophetic worship around the world. The flagship event, called "The Renewal", has seen some 20,000 people in attendance throughout the British Isles. Noel's heart is to see unity across the body of Christ and believes that this unity of the church is a key component to revival in this season. He carries a message of revival, reformation and restoration to the church and world.
In September 2014, Noel signed an Artist Agreement with Integrity Music and recorded his first live Integrity Music Album "Outrageous Love" in February 2015. "Outrageous Love" released in September 2015.
"This is the most exciting time of your life," says Noel, "as you are the revealed prophetic word of God in this season!"
As a poor boy from rural Jamaica, I learnt from an early age to think outside the box while I was still inside the box. I dreamt big and saw nothing as an obstacle or barrier to whatever I wanted to achieve. I just jumped straight in and went for it with power of purpose and determination.
This attitude resulted in me starting my first business at 16 to help pay my college fees and I have started and build numerous businesses since then. This way of thinking also propelled me to become a Senior Executive at the age of 25 working at this level in global fortune 500 companies all over the world until I quite corporate for the second and final time to go after my dream in 2013. While in corporate most of the time I was the only black person at that senior level in these companies. My experiences and knowledge as a serial entrepreneur and former senior executive in global multi-nationals, gives me a unique advantage on what it takes and is needed to play the corporate game to win, grow your business and develop the right mind-set needed to create amazing and succeed.
Erin Meyer is a Senior Affiliate Professor in the Organisational Behaviour Department at INSEAD and specialises in the field of Cross-Cultural Management, Intercultural Negotiations, and Multi-Cultural Leadership. Erin is also the Programme Director for two INSEAD executive education programmes: Managing Global Virtual Teams and Management Skills for International Business. She is also the author of The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business. Erin’s work focuses on how the world’s most successful leaders navigate the complexities of cultural differences in a global environment.
Living and working in Africa, Europe, and the United States prompted Erin Meyer’s study of the communication patterns and business systems of different parts of the world. Her framework allows international executives to pinpoint their leadership preferences, and compare their methods to the management styles of other cultures. Erin has taught thousands of executives from 5 continents to decode cross-cultural complexities impacting their work, and to lead more effectively across these differences.
John Smith is a husband, father, grandfather, a disciple of Christ, an elder on the Governing Board his local church, a leadership archaeologist, an entrepreneurial futurist as well as the founder and president of CEO. He is an executive coach to Fortune 100 companies and non-profits. He trains, coaches and mentors senior and emerging leaders worldwide.
In 1988, he created the first faith-based mastermind council in the United States. He also has theological training and has started multiple business enterprises as well as numerous on-profit organizations for marketplace ministries. He resides in Orlando, FL with his wife, Dolly of 42 years.
John is the National Leader of AoG.
He has been a pastor and apostolic leader and now wants to use his widespread experience, infectious sense of fun and evangelistic zeal to bring a fresh vision and purpose to AoG. John’s exciting journey has demonstrated the God-given positive attributes he has shown for more than four decades. He thrives on inspiring others with fun, the feel-good factor and, with his father heart, he loves to encourage others. John has led churches in Bedworth, Liverpool and Exeter as well as pioneering nine others, and he spent several years in Australia, working with churches and leaders there.
He is married to Andrene and is a father of three and a grandad to six.
Esi is an Assistant Professor at Ashesi University, where she teaches classes including Human Resource Management, Organizational Behavior, and Negotiation & Creative Problem Solving, working closely with her students to help them in self-discovery, identifying, articulating and carving out their career paths. She is an avid believer in, and contributor to achieving the vision and mission of Ashesi.
Her other professional and academic interests include social and public entrepreneurship and sustainable educational and public sector reform in Ghana. Esi earned her Bachelor's degrees in Psychology, International Affairs and French from the Florida State University in 1999, graduating with a three Bachelor’s degrees in three years cum laude (with honors). She also holds Master's degrees in Social Sciences and in Public Service Management from the University of Chicago (2004) and DePaul University in Chicago (2002), respectively. She holds a PhD in Public Administration (2008) from Rutgers University in New Jersey. In September 2009, Esi was welcomed into the Africa Leadership Initiative as an ALI Fellow.
Esi has a deep commitment to community service and has a long history of volunteer work wherever in the world she finds herself. From caring for displaced orphans in Jamaica, to mentoring adolescents to excel academically in Florida, to laboring to refurbish houses for the low-income elderly in Kentucky, to caring for children in a daycare in France and mentoring incarcerated youth in Ghana. Esi is a member of the Board of the Longevity Project, where she also serves as a volunteer.
Esi is a chocolate-lover who counts cooking and eating, writing, traveling, and photography amongst her hobbies. She believes that being spiritually alive and well is the key to her success, and describes herself as a simple, high-energy person who never runs out of ideas (she maintains a detailed Idea Bank), and also as a "grounded idealist" with a sense of urgency and an aim to bring positive transformation wherever she finds herself.
Nicole Unice is a fresh voice for the next generation. Part bible teacher, part community organizer, part busy mom–Nicole has the uncanny ability to relate to people in all ages and stages of life with her “keeping it real” approach to ordering a life around God’s word.
Nicole’s teaching reaches wide, both as a writer and speaker. Her first book, She’s Got Issues, released May 2012 and speaks to a fundamental question of faith: is being a Christian supposed to change me? The book is followed by a DVD Group Experience, a six-week journey of interviews, questions and teaching around the book. She’s since co-written a book about the basics of a relationship with Jesus called Start Here. Her most recent book and DVD study is Brave Enough, a conversation about finding courage in Christ.
Nicole’s invitations to speak have taken her across the country to conferences and women’s retreats, big and small. Her heart belongs to Hope Church, where she serves as the ministry director, providing leadership, teaching and directing a full-time ministry residency program called Praxis.
You can catch her podcasting every Tuesday with senior pastor David Dwight, where they spend 15 minutes talking about “God’s truth and modern life” and laughing about all kinds of other things. David and Nicole have co-authored a new book called “Start Here: Beginning a Relationship with Jesus”, which releases in April 2014.
Dan is a multi-award winning entrepreneur who is the founder and MD of Wonderful Creative. He is also a pastor and elder of Jubilee Church in Maidstone. He has been involved in marketing and brand building since 2002 and successfully ran a buzz building agency, which he merged to form Wonderful Creative.
His passion for growing businesses through creative and strategic marketing has seen him work with some of the world’s largest brands as well as SMEs.
Dan has an awesome wife and two boys. His passion is to see leaders in business and the church fulfil their potential and realise their dreams.
Jonathan Milligan is an author, blogger, speaker and career coach. He has spent the last decade counseling, guiding, and directing career professionals on how to pursue meaningful work.
Since 2009, Jonathan has been building a portable, lifestyle business through blogging. Today, he teaches others the roadmap to doing the same.
His 2 primary blogs are:
- JonathanMilligan.com
- BloggingYourPassion.com
Jonathan is also active in his local church, serving as a Deacon and leader of the hospitality ministry. He resides in Jacksonville, Florida with his wife and two kids.
Eric Smarts is an author, keynote speaker, business coach and market specialist who has a wealth of knowledge and corporate insight within various industries such as IT, finance, oil & gas and all kinds of strategic small business and enterprise. His first book, "MoneySmarts: The Business of Business" has made waves in the small to medium enterprise world and has taught many new entrepreneurs looking for smart and innovative ways to go into business and succeed. His other titles "MoneySmarts: The Investing Edition", "MoneySmarts: The Youth Edition", "MoneySmarts: The Business Edition" target different audiences and help share secrets he has learned through his years of high level business wisdom and exposure.
Mike is a co founder, former National Director and now Non Executive Director of TLG The Education Charity, an award winning organisation working with children and young people at risk of exclusion from school through early intervention programmes and setting up Alternative Provision Schools and Early Intervention initiatives throughout the UK. www.tlg.org.uk. He also leads on Church Engagement, heading up a team of UK Based advisers and training facilitators for the Cinnamon Network www.cinnamonnetwork.co.uk, which is making it as easy as possible for the local church to help people most at need in its community across the UK.
Mike is a leader, speaker, a social entrepreneur, policy adviser and a passionate communicator on issues of children and young people, educational exclusion, and how the congregations can better engage in church based social action.
Mike has a first class honours degree in Urban Planning and a Masters Degree in Black Theology from the University of Birmingham. He is currently working closely with local and central government agencies focusing on these issues. He also sits as a Non Executive Director on a number of NGO's working in Birmingham and East and West Africa. Mike was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2010 (FRSA).
Mike lives in Birmingham UK and is happily married to Viviene for over twenty years. A few hours a week working as a Mental Health Chaplain keeps his feet firmly grounded in reality!
Jackson Ogunyemi better known as “Action Jackson” is a lover of cheesecake, running and inspiring people.
He founded a company dedicated to empowering UK Education called Fixupseminars.co.uk in 2001 whilst studying Mechanical Engineering at Middlesex University, where he developed a passion for public speaking. He ran motivation workshops on topics such as procrastination, goal setting and other life changing strategies, and after a positive response he continued the classes. After graduating with a 2:1 degree Jackson decided to pursue a career in Motivation and Personal Development.
Action Jackson is now a motivational speaker and a life coach who has worked with a vast range of people, from students across the UK, management teams of major corporations to individuals from different walks of life. His seminars are described as mind blowing, entertaining and life changing.
He combines passion, energy, humour and inspiration to equip you with the necessary tools to live your dreams. He has embodied what he teaches and desires to pass them onto the next generation. His mission is to MOTIVATE EQUIP & EMPOWER UK education with his presenters (TheFixUPTeam) touring the UK inspiring and motivating young people, parents and teachers.
Action Jackson is not stopping until he makes you feel AMAZING about yourself.
After being frustrated with working close to 100 hours per week (at 3 different jobs) Justin went to Google one late night in 2008 (after having a bad day at work), and started searching for ways to make money online.
His first 3 months as an online entrepreneur were not all that promising. He was bombarded with distractions, and bought nearly every “make money online” course he could afford. He blew through his entire life savings (around $30,000) and had NOTHING to show for it. That’s when he realized that something had to change. His back was against the wall, and it was time to get serious.
He hired a mentor, they put together a plan, and he got to work.
91 days later, Justin had sold over $100,000 worth of stuff on the internet, and quit all 3 of his corporate jobs. He then started creating his own products, and since then he has grown his business to nearly $2 Million dollars in sales.
He has helped thousands of aspiring entrepreneurs from all over the world get better results in their online businesses, with a few clients making over $100,000 by implementing what they learned from him.
I care about the leader. Not just any leader, but the one who is driven to make a mark and leave a legacy that lasts a lifetime. If you're reading this page, that means you!
I hold a unique package of training and experience over the past 35 years that you need if you're looking for strong support. I'm trained as an Executive Coach. I've served in ministry leadership as youth and music pastor. I've served in the corporate environment as Chief Operations Officer and Chief Executive Officer. I serve on several boards. I am a fanatic about organization and process. I can't stand inefficiency or ineffectiveness.
I'm also a grateful husband and privileged father of two grown adults. I love a good cup of coffee, time to read, and I appreciate a well-taken photo.
If you're a dynamic, driven leader with high energy and wild creativity who can't sit still and you are called to get a message out, I want to be your support so that you reach further and longer without burning out in the process. Think of me as your second chair.
Michael Q. Pink is a best selling author of over a dozen books including The Bible Incorporated, Selling Among Wolves, and Rainforest Strategy. He’s been a featured speaker at multiple arena events for business leaders, and leader of countless sales and business seminars in the U.S. and abroad.
Michael has carved out a unique niche for applying Biblical principles and natural law to sales, marketing and business processes. For over seven years, he was heard daily on American Family Radio and other networks eventually being carried in over 200 markets nationwide.
His television appearances include: The 700 Club, PTL Canada, Heritage USA, CTN, Dove Broadcasting and local NBC, CBS and Fox affiliates. He’s been a guest writer for numerous national publications like Success Magazine, Business Reform, Christian Business Magazine and others.
As a corporate sales trainer, Michael is known for teaching Biblical models for the sales process that produce profound results. This is not about going to the world, finding some motivational guru that wants to “release the giant within” and putting a Bible verse on it and calling it wisdom.
Michael’s consulting practice focuses on revenue growth by dramatically improving marketing efforts, defining and greatly improving the sales process and improving personal productivity. Over the years, he’s served Fortune 100 companies, one-man startups and plenty in between.
His highly acclaimed Rainforest Strategy book about the planet’s most successful business model came about as a result of numerous trips to the rainforests of the upper Amazon and Central America where he studied the rainforest as a business model. The lessons he pulled from the rainforest and his access to hundreds of scientific white papers by Smithsonian scientists have proven highly effective for business owners.
About Marisa Shadrick: I help women find their dormant courage by taking small steps of faith until they discover they were made for more.
“Lord, change me today, so I can become the person you intended tomorrow.”
Who me, a writer? When I started to write, it was unnatural or uncomfortable. I think you have the wrong person, Lord.
I had to “find my brave,” so I went back to school, attended writers conferences, and began to tap on my keyboard–despite my sweaty palms. God took my seed of faith and helped me published articles in Charles Stanley’s In Touch Magazine, Chicken Soup for the Soul, Gospel Publishing House, local newspapers and online publications.
As a blogger, my weekly posts are contemplative and yet, sometimes humorous. I like to dig into relevant issues using Ephesians 1:17-20 as my prayer for readers.
Jon Gordon's best-selling books and talks have inspired readers and audiences around the world. His principles have been put to the test by numerous NFL, NBA, MLB coaches and teams, Fortune 500 companies, school districts, hospitals and non-profits. He is the author of numerous books including The Wall Street Journalbestseller The Energy Bus, Soup, The No Complaining Rule, Training Camp, and The Carpenter. Jon and his tips have been featured on The Today Show, CNN, Fox and Friends and in numerous magazines and newspapers. His clients include The Atlanta Falcons, LA Clippers, Pittsburgh Pirates, Campbell Soup, Wells Fargo, Northwestern Mutual, Publix, Southwest Airlines, Bayer, West Point Academy and more.
Jon is a graduate of Cornell University and holds a Masters in Teaching from Emory University. He and his training/consulting company are passionate about developing positive leaders, organizations and teams.
When he's not running through airports or speaking, you can find him playing tennis or lacrosse with his wife and two teenage children.
Scott is the author of "It's not about you" Leadership for sales managers and the founder of Trinity Lincoln Consulting. Trinity-Lincoln Consulting was founded by Scott Crandall, and fulfills a long-term dream: to help others focus on key business issues and problems in a low-key, solution-oriented way. And get the job done without drama, rhetoric and unnecessary fanfare.
Scott graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1971. After five years (and 20 days, 3 hours and 11 minutes!) in military intelligence, he resigned his captain’s commission and joined a leading international tire manufacturer, starting his business life as a field sales rep in 1976.
In succession, over 34 years (and a handful of moves), he was a regional sales manager, a director of sales, a sales operations manager, a training manager, and an internal consultant.
Scott specialized over that time in building organizations, identifying critical problems (and fixing them!), and in designing, developing, and delivering training — and finding a way to make sure training “took”, and truly resulted in performance change.
Trinity’s approach is to utilize the best assets for the job: to that end we utilize a network of professionals with whom we partner to deliver the focused expertise necessary to solve the problem.
Tony is the Chief Strategic Officer and founder of The Unstuck Group. He’s a consultant, leadership coach and writer who helps churches get unstuck and have a bigger impact.
For 14 years, Tony served on the senior leadership teams at West Ridge Church (Dallas, GA), NewSpring Church (Anderson, SC) and Granger Community Church (Granger, IN). With Tim Stevens, Tony has co-authored Simply Strategic Stuff, Simply Strategic Volunteers and Simply Strategic Growth – each of which offers valuable, practical solutions for different aspects of church ministry. His book, Killing Cockroaches (B&H Publishing) challenges leaders to focus on the priorities in life and ministry. His most recent books on leadership and ministry strategy are available on Kindle.
Tony has also written several articles on staffing, technology, strategic planning and leadership published by organizations like the Willow Creek Association, Outreach Magazine, Catalyst and Pastors.com. Tony and his wife, Emily, live near Atlanta, Georgia with their four children — Kayla, Jacob, Abby and Brooke.
Albert Tate is the founder and lead pastor of Fellowship Monrovia. From Sweet Home Church of Christ Holiness USA in Pearl, Mississippi to Lake Avenue Church in Pasadena, California, Albert Tate has been preaching the Gospel to people of all ages and races. Hearing the call from God, Albert and his wife LaRosa planted Fellowship Monrovia a Gospel-Centered, Multi-Ethnic and Intergenerational church in January 2012.
Albert is a gifted and dynamic communicator who is passionate about sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ with the local and global church. Albert presents the Gospel to people across the country in academic, retreat and conference settings combining humor and storytelling of God’s amazing grace and love. His unique and passionate style from the pulpit combines inspiration and challenge, laughter and tears as people are engaged at their core. His hope for Fellowship Monrovia is to cultivate a community of disciples that is unleashed to live out the Gospel by Growing in a life of worship, Gathering in community and Giving their lives away on mission.
Albert is married to the love of his life LaRosa Tate who he calls God’s gift of amazing grace in his life – together they have three beautiful children Zoe, Bethany and Isaac.
Albert serves on the Board of Trustees at Azusa Pacific University & Fuller Youth Institute. He was recently published in Letters to a Birmingham Jail: A Response to the Words and Dreams of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Brandon Cox is Lead Pastor of Grace Hills Church, a new church plant in northwest Arkansas. He also serves as Editor and Community Facilitator for Pastors.com and Rick Warren's Pastor's Toolbox and was formerly a Pastor at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California. In his spare time, he offers consultation to church leaders about communication, branding, and social media. He and his wife, Angie, live with their two awesome kids in Bentonville, Arkansas.
Brandon and Angie are passionate about Jesus and seeing lives changed by the power of God’s Word, the Bible. They had talked about the idea of planting a church for a decade before God placed them in southern California, which proved to be an atmosphere in which God would teach them to trust Him to a new level. The relocated back to northwest Arkansas in the summer of 2011 to pursue the dream of planting Grace Hills Church, where they believe many people will experience the life-changing love and grace of Jesus.
Steve Uppal has been Senior Leader at All Nations Christian Centre, Wolverhampton, since 2001. All Nations is a growing and vibrant church family which reflects the diversity of the city.
He is well known locally, regionally and nationally as an anointed and inspiring speaker, with the supremacy of Jesus and the Word of God as his central themes. Steve also has a growing apostolic ministry amongst a number of churches which look to him as a wise ‘father’ or ‘master builder’ – a network based on relationship not organisation. He has a passion for helping believers live life to the full, living intentionally and seeking God for Himself.
Throughout its history the church has been committed to the full gospel and to serving the community, especially those at the margins. All Nations’ vision now encompasses nations across the globe – ‘for all people to glorify God through knowing Christ, becoming like Christ and making Christ known’. Steve and All Nations Church have established strong links in several other countries, particularly Myanmar (Burma), and India.
Steve’s preaching and example are focussed on pressing in to the presence of God. Intimacy with Him and total dependence upon the Holy Spirit are key to seeing the Kingdom advance. He has also written three books. ‘Rousing the Warriors’, is a prophetic call to boldly rise up and advance the kingdom of God. The second book ‘One Life’, helps people to make the most of the one life they have been given. ‘The Burning Ones’ intends to ignite and fuel a passion for Jesus.