Miroslav Volf, is Founder and Director of Yale Center for Faith and Culture and Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology, Yale University Divinity School, New Haven, CT. He was educated in his native Croatia, United States, and Germany. He earned doctoral and post-doctoral degrees (with highest honors) from the University of Tuebingen, Germany. He has written or edited 15 books and over 70 scholarly articles. His most significant books include Exclusion and Embrace (1996; winner of Grawemeyer Award in Religion, and one of Christianity Today’s 100 most important religious books of the 20th century); After Our Likeness (1998) in which he explores the Trinitarian nature of ecclesial community; Allah: A Christian Response (2011), and A Public Faith: On How Followers of Christ Should Serve the Common Good (2011). He is actively involved in many top-level initiatives and is a member of the Global Agenda Council of the World Economic Forum.

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Mark Wexler is Executive Director and Co-Founder of Not for Sale, a movement to re-abolish slavery. He found his vocational direction while working on the streets of Durban, South Africa, and left in 2006 to found Not for Sale with Dave Batstone and Kique Bazan. Mark is a partner in the Right Reality Fund, which invests at the intersection of for-profit and non-profit industries. At Not for Sale, Mark manages program directors and facilitates strategic partnership agreements with other institutions in both for-profit and social sectors. As a modern-day abolitionist, Mark’s passion is directed at the estimated 27 million slaves who live in bondage today, in restaurants and fields, construction sites and brothels, suburbs and cities, in the United States and abroad. He recognizes that the battle to end slavery begins by revealing it.

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David Kinnaman is the President of Barna Group, the nation’s leading research organization focused on the intersection of faith and culture. He is the author of the best-selling book, unChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks About Christianity (2007), You Lost Me: Why Young Christians are Leaving the Church . . .and Rethinking Faith (2011), and the Barna report, Teens and the Supernatural. Since joining Barna in 1995, David has designed and analyzed nearly 500 projects for a variety of clients. As a spokesperson for the firm’s research, David is frequently quoted in major media outlets (such as USA Today, Fox News, Chicago Tribune, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal). He is also in demand as a speaker about trends in faith and culture, vocation and calling, young leaders, and generational changes. The son of a lifelong pastor, David has served in various capacities within congregations. He graduated from Biola University, where he served as Student Chaplain.

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Dr. Ron Stout currently serves as Medical Director for Procter & Gamble's Global Health and Wellbeing Business Unit.  He was previously the Medical Director for Preventive Medicine and Occupational Services at Kettering Medical Center. He served the U.S. Air Force as: IMA, Office of the Air Force Surgeon General, Occupational and Environmental Medicine Consultant, Senior Preventive Medicine Consultant and a Principal Investigator, Air Force Health Study. Dr Stout serves on numerous nonprofit Boards including:  the American College of Preventive Medicine as Mid West Regent, the Board of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, as a Trustee of the American Board of Preventive Medicine and on the Board of Editors, Chemical Health & Safety. He is board certified in Family Practice, Preventive Medicine/Public Health and Occupational Medicine.  Ron is married to Pam Stout, a  perinatal nurse educator.  They have two children, John, an Architecture Major at Miami of Oxford and Elle, a predental student at Andrews University.

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Sid Lloyd is President and CEO, Ardmore Institute of Health dba Lifestyle Center of America. Sid became interested in preventive health at Walla Walla College, his alma mater, while working in Bangladesh for a year.  He was so interested that, on his return, he changed his major from pre-med to a major that included preventive health.  After teaching high school for six years, he moved into the world of business and worked for Fortune 100 computer companies in business development.  Wanting to move from a life of success to a life of significance, Sid has now come full circle back to his original passion - helping people live healthier and more vibrant lives.  Sid is completing his MBA at Southern Adventist University.

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Diana Fleming, Ph.D., was co-founder and co-manager of Country Life Vegetarian Restaurants in New York City and London, and a cooking consultant for Harvard University and Wellesley College. She earned her Ph.D. in nutrition at Tufts University in Boston. All four of her thesis papers were published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

Diana co-authored The 30-Day Diabetes Miracle Cookbook (Penguin, New York 2008) where her knowledge and expertise were valuable in developing tasty, high-fiber, plant-based recipes that helped readers achieve significant diabetes relief and weight loss.

She joined the staff at the Lifestyle Center of America in 2002, serving as Director of Nutritional Services since 2003. Too often nutrition professionals don't know how to take the theory of nutrition from research to the plate. Not so with Diana. She has a passion for nutrition, translating into her personal love for cooking, baking and eating.

Diana co-authored the 2010 The New York Times bestseller, The Full Plate Diet.

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Gabe Lyons is the author of The Next Christians:  The Good News About the End of Christian America and the founder of Q—a learning community that mobilizes Christians to advance the common good in society.  Additionally, he is the co-author of UnChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks About Christianity and Why It Matters, a bestselling book based on original research that revealed the pervasiveness of pop culture’s negative perceptions of Christians.  Prior to launching Q, Gabe co-founded Catalyst, a national gathering of young leaders.  His work represents the perspectives of a new generation of Christians and has been featured by CNN, The New York Times, Fox News and USA Today.  Gabe, his wife Rebekah, and their three children reside in Manhattan, New York.

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Alan Hirsch, is the founding Director of Forge Mission Training Network and the co-founder of shapevine.com, an international forum for engaging with world transforming ideas. He has also been part of the leadership team of Christian Associates International, a missional church-planting agency with focus on Western Europe. Known for his innovative approach to mission, Alan is a teacher and key strategist for churches across the western world. Currently he is adjunct professor at Fuller Theological Seminary, George Fox Seminary, and Wheaton College, among others. He is author of numerous books, primarily on missional thinking and discipleship. His topic: “Recalibrating the Church for the 21st Century: Part I –ReJesus, ReDisciple; Part II – ReMission, ReOrganize.”

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Barbara Bradley Hagerty, is religion correspondent for National Public Radio, reporting on the intersection of faith and politics, law, science, and culture. Her best-selling book, “Fingerprints of God: The Search for the Science of Spirituality,” was published in May 2009. She has won numerous awards for her reporting on religion, including the American Women in Radio and Television Award, the Headliners Award, and the Religion Newswriters Association Award. She was selected for the Templeton-Cambridge Fellowship in Science and Religion in 2005. She has appeared on the PBS Washington Week in Review and The Lehrer News Hour programs. She holds a Masters degree in legal studies from Yale Law School. Her topic: “Is There Evidence for God? Dispatches from the Frontiers of Science.”

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Zdravko Plantak, specializes in ethics and is the chair of the Department of Religion at Washington Adventist University. He served as President of the Adventist Society for Religious Studies in 2009. A lecturer in many national and international gatherings on ethics and theology, Plantak is the author of The Silent Church: Human Rights and Adventist Social Ethics, published by Macmillan Press (UK). His topic : “The Leaves are for the Healing of the Nations: Repairers of Broken Walls and Restorers of God’s Justice.”

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Neil Cole, is Founder and Executive Director of Church Multiplication Associates, a movement of small rapidly multiplying (average of two per day) organic churches that meet in homes, campuses and places of business all over the world. Neil travels widely sowing the seeds of God’s kingdom, catalyzing the development of organic church networks and coaching leaders. An author of numerous books, Neil has served in a mega church, a local community church, and now in teaching and coaching. His topic: “Church 3.0: Upgrades for the Future of the Church”

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Samir Selmanovic, is an ordained pastor, author, missional entrepreneur and founder of FaithHouse Manhattan – 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 book, It’s Really All About God, was released by Jossey-Bass in 2009. His topic: “What If There's Nothing There?”

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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.”