Suzy Welch, author, commentator, business journalist, and former editor of the Harvard Business Review.  The widely read weekly column The Welch Way she writes with her husband, Jack Welch, appears in Business Week magazine and is published by the New York Times syndicate in more than 45 major newspapers around the world, reaching more than 8 million readers.  The Welches are also co-authors of Winning, a #1 Wall Street Journal and international bestseller, and its companion volume, Winning:  The Answers.  On her own, Suzy is a columnist for O – The Oprah Magazine, where she writes frequently about balancing work and like, as well as the delicate art of managing career challenges.  Her newest book, 10-10-10:  A Life-Transforming Idea, was released in April 2009.

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Michael Lindsay, is a sociologist who specializes in issues surrounding leadership, religion, and culture.  The author of several books (including the bestseller, Faith in the Halls of Power), scholarly articles, and research reports, Lindsay conducted the nation’s largest and most comprehensive study of public leaders who are people of faith.  Michael has worked for the Gallup Institute as a researcher, author, public speaker and consultant.  He has co-written two books with George Gallup, based on research he helped organize:  Surveying the Religious Landscape:  Trends in U.S. Beliefs and The Gallup Guide:  Reality Check for 21st Century Churches.  Michael is an ordained pastor, and holds an M.Div., and Ph.D., from Princeton.

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Margaret Feinberg. A popular speaker at churches and leading conferences such as Fusion, Catalyst, and LeadNow, Margaret invites people to discover the relevance of God and His Word in a postmodern world.  Audiences love her ability to connect the practical with the spiritual.  Recently named by Charisma magazine as one of the “30 Emerging Voices” who will help lead the church in the next decade, she has written more than a dozen books including the critically-acclaimed The Organic God (Zondervan).  While Twentysomething and What the Heck Am I Going to Do With My Life? Have established her as an expert on reaching the next generation, people of all ages connect with her relational teaching style.

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David Neff, is a vice president of Christianity Today International and editor-in-chief of Christianity Today magazine and the Christianity Today Media Group.  In his 24 years at CT, he has written on topics as diverse as physician-assisted suicide, Middle-East peace, English evangelicalism, and environmental concerns.  “One of the joys of being a journalist is the freedom to investigate almost any topic,” he says.  “If the whole world is God’s world, we must feel free, even compelled, to bring a Christian vision to every corner of creation.”  Before coming to Christianity Today, Mr. Neff served as editor of HIS, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship’s erstwhile magazine for college students.

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Samir Selmanovic, is an ordained pastor, author, missional entrepreneur and founder of FaithHouse Manhatten – an interfaith exploration of faith and spirituality.  Currently he is Christian Co-Leader for FaithHouse.  Samir, who holds a Ph.D., from Andrews University, served for several years as a teaching pastor at CrossWalk – a Seventh-day Adventist congregation in Southern California.  His newest book, It’s Really All About God, is to be released by Jossey-Bass in September 2009.

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Robert Wuthnow, Ph.D., teaches sociology of religion and cultural sociology, and currently serves as chair of the Department of Sociology and Director of the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University. He is the author of over twenty-five books, including America and the Challenges of Religious Diversity and After the Baby Boomers: How Twenty- and Thirty-Somethings Are Shaping the Future of American Religion (2007). He has also edited over ten books, including a new edition of the Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion.

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Leonard Sweet, Ph.D., is currently the E. Stanley Jones Professor of Evangelism at Drew Theological School (Madison, NJ), and Visiting Distinguished Professor at George Fox University (Portland, OR). He is the author of more than one hundred articles, 600 published sermons and thirty books, most recently The Gospel According to Starbucks (2007). Founder and President of SpiritVenture Ministries, Sweet is a frequent speaker and conversation partner at conferences both in the US and around the globe. In both 2006 and 2007 he was voted “One of the 50 Most Influential Christians in America”

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James Tucker, Ph. D., Chair for Excellence in Learning, and Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga; also founder and chairman of the board of the Foundation for Leadership and Learning, a global network of resources for the advancement of leadership development. Jim has provided consultative and training services to hundreds of school systems—public, private, and parochial—in more than 40 states as well as Brazil, Canada, Japan, Lithuania, Norway, and the Virgin Islands.

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Julius Nam, Ph.D., associate professor of religion, Loma Linda University School of Religion. One of the most articulate, engaging and insightful young Adventist scholars today, Nam is active in the American Academy of Religion, Adventist Society for Religious Studies, and The Association of Seventh-day Adventist Historians. He has served as pastor in Korea and in the U.S., and currently teaches Adventist History and Theology. He was a principal in organizing the 2007 scholarly conference on the 50th anniversary of the publication of the book, Seventh-day Adventists Answer Questions on Doctrine.

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Kelly Monroe Kullberg. Kelly is the founder and director of project development of The Veritas Forum which she first organized at Harvard in 1992. She edited and co-authored the best-sellingFinding God at Harvard: Spiritual Journeys of Christian Thinkers (1996). A decade later she wroteFinding God Beyond Harvard (2006), and taught senior electives at Harvard College in film and C.S. Lewis while serving as a chaplain to the Harvard Graduate School Christian Fellowship from 1988-1997. Kelly lives with her husband David and children in Columbus, Ohio. She enjoys Ultimate Frisbee on beaches, football in the front yard, and skiing out West.

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Philip Jenkins is Distinguished Professor of History and Religious Studies at Pennsylvania State University. A graduate of Cambridge University, he has published widely (over 20 books) on contemporary religious phenomena, but is best known for the highly acclaimed The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity.

Rabbi Marcia Prager is Dean of the ALEPH: Alliance for Jewish Renewal Rabbinic Program and serves as rabbi of both the Philadelphia and Princeton P’nai Or Jewish Renewal Communities. Rabbi Marcia is the author of Path of Blessing, which has been called, “One of the best introductions to Jewish Renewal learning and practice.”

Jon Paulien is a renowned Adventist theologian, Professor of new Testament Interpretation, and incoming Dean of the Faculty of Religion at Loma Linda University. He is the author of several books, including: The Day That Changed The World, The Deep Things of God, and Everyday Faith.

Doug Pagitt is the pastor of Solomon’s Porch and owns businesses in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He enjoys finding creative, entrepreneurial, generative ways to join in the hopes, dreams and desires God has for the world. He is author of several books including, Church Re-Imagined, and Preaching Re-imagined.

Leland Kaiser, Founder and President, Kaiser Consulting
Dr. Kaiser is a health care futurist, an intuitive, an executive coach, a community organizer and an organizational consultant. He is a pioneer in many emerging areas of health care including tithing programs for community hospitals. He is a provocateur and mentor to many hospitals and health care systems in the United States. Dr. Kaiser has helped many organizations invent their preferred futures. He is an advocate of self-designing organizations, and self-designing communities.

Leanne Kaiser Carlson, Co-founder, The Kaiser Institute
Ms. Carlson is one of the most visible and influential futurists in the United States. Using her insights and artistic speaking style, she helps audiences see the potentials that often lie invisible, challenge limitation, and create fresh energy. She serves as an advisor to CEOs and philanthropists, and is on the faculty of the Spiritual Leadership Institute, and The Estes Park Institute, the nation’s premier organization equipping trustees, executives, and clinicians with the skills to navigate today’s complex environment. EPI educates approximately 3,000 healthcare leaders annually.

Kevin Kaiser, Co-founder, The Kaiser Institute
Mr. Kaiser is an influential force in the emerging field of applied intuition. He is doing groundbreaking work in the creation of intuitive organizations and is pioneering innovative learning environments that evoke people’s extraordinary intuitive gifts. He is the creator of the Kaiser Institute’s Program in Intuition, a nine-month fellowship for executives wanting to evoke their natural intuitive abilities. Kevin is in demand as an executive coach and as a speaker. He is known for his ability to inspire people to create paths of greater service, greater adventure, and greater bless!

James Londis, Director of Ethics and Corporate Integrity, Kettering Medical Center Network

Duane Covrig, Associate Professor, Dept. of Educational Foundations & Leadership, University of Akron

Ann Higdon. ISUS (Improved Solutions to Urban Systems) Trade and Technology Prep Community School, Dayton, Ohio -- an ungraded charter school whose core philosophy and mission is to help individuals become “transenders” or “people who rise above the odds.”