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Southern California’s 2008 Leadership Event of the
Year
Faith
Works Leadership Conference
“Taking Your Faith to Work”
With over 350 people in
attendance was held on
Friday, October 10, 2008 | 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the
Irvine Barclay Theatre| 4242 Campus Drive, Irvine,
CA 92612
We spent
a full day with 6 of America’s top
Christian business leaders learning about
How to
apply Christ-centered
principles and leadership practices to our workplace issues
Networking
with hundreds of other Christians who are integrating their faith and
their work
ReThinking our work life from
God’s perspective
“For we
are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works,
which God prepared in advance for us to
do.”
Ephesians 2:10
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Speakers biographies |
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John D. Beckett, Chairman, R.W. Beckett
Corporation, Ridgeville, OH
Author, Loving Monday: Succeeding
in Business Without Selling Your Soul
The company, www.beckettcorp.com,
with its affiliates, currently has sales exceeding $100 million, with
some 600 employees, is one of the world's leading manufacturers of
residential and commercial heating systems. He has been named the oil
heating industry's "man of the year" and Christian Broadcasting
Network's "Christian Businessman of the Year." He was also named
manufacturing “Entrepreneur of the Year” by Ernst & Young in 2003.
In 1995 he and his company were featured on ABC News with
Peter Jennings discussing his commitment to integrating faith in the
workplace.
Beckett is also a co-founder of Advent Industries, a manufacturing
company that provides job training for those who are hard to employ. He
helped found Intercessors for America, a national prayer
organization, and serves as its board chairman. His first
book, Loving Monday: Succeeding in Business Without Selling Your
Soul, was published in 1998 by InterVarsity Press. His
second book, Mastering Monday: A Practical Guide to Integrating
Faith and Work, was released in July 2006. www.masteringmonday.com
In His book, Mastering Monday,
John writes about Mondays carrying special challenges. For most, Monday
is the unwelcome transition from the weekend to the workweek. It is the
launching pad for the next five days. He shares insights from his
own personal journey in the workplace, gives Biblical role models for
us to emulate in our own workplaces, and then concludes with a focus on
five themes where Biblical truths and business realities intersect,
giving practical ideas from his own experience and wisdom.
Mastering Monday will help you see your Mondays as the anticipated
first day of a rewarding, purpose-filled workweek.
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Robert Fraser, author, Marketplace
Christianity
Director, The Joseph Company & CFO,
International House of Prayer, Kansas City, KS
A businessman and entrepreneur, he
founded NetSales, Inc. a back-office e-commerce provider for business
customers including Xerox, Chase Manhattan Bank and Samsung. He raised
$44 million in investment capital and guided the company to an average
of 20 percent month-to-month revenue growth over 6 years becoming the
Kansas City Metro area's fastest growing company between 1997 and 1999.
In 2000, Fraser received the Midwest Region Ernst & Young
Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Today, Fraser is director of the Joseph Company
, a ministry dedicated to restoring a vision for the marketplace. He
also serves as Chief Financial Officer at the International House of
Prayer, a 24/7 prayer ministry in Kansas City.
In his book, Marketplace
Christianity, he asks if you’ve longed to do more for God in
"real" ministry? Do you wonder how to fulfill your spiritual calling
and lay up heavenly rewards, even though little of your time is devoted
to church activities? In this paradigm-shattering book, Fraser writes
to the 97 percent of Christians not called to full-time vocational
ministry but called by God to the workplace. In practical everyday
language, Fraser shares insights from his experience running a
250-employee software company that experienced sustained revival and
business success during his tenure as CEO.
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Linda
Searcy, author, Pay Day Principles – Does What I Do Really Matter?
President,
Building Better Tomorrows (BBT), Houston, TX
BBT is a company that provides wellness
plans and consulting services to the business and government
community. In addition, she is Vice-President of Sales and
Estimating for Devolve Corp., a large telecommunications provider
giving leadership to the overall direction of the
company. She has 20 years experience in the networking
and infrastructure industry and has also been a business owner.
In Pay Day Principles: Does
What I Do Really Matter? Linda Searcy reveals
biblically-based principles that will revolutionize your thinking
about the workplace. She encourages and inspires readers, solidifying
the belief that God is supremely interested in what goes on in
your professional life. You can embrace your profession, your
career, and the talents that lie within your grasp and know that your
success in the professional world is one of the greatest
representations of His power to a world so desperately in need of Him.
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Jerre
Stead, Retired Chairman and CEO, Ingram Micro, Santa Ana, CA
Co-author of, Seize
Tomorrow, Start Today: Renew Your Vision, Revitalize Your
Organization, and Stay Ahead of the Future.
Ingram Micro is the world’s largest
distributor of technology products and is the largest public company
headquartered in Orange County, CA. The technology distributor
currently has a market value of $2.8 billion with revenues of $35
billion last year, and over 15,000 employees worldwide. Mr. Stead
retired as Chairman and CEO of Ingram Micro in May 2000. When he
took Ingram Micro public in 1996, it was the largest technology IPO in
history. Under his four-year leadership, Ingram Micro’s revenues
grew from $8 billion to $30 billion. He is now an active investor
in start-ups and has been chairman of two other companies.
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Ron
Wagley, Transamerica, Chairman, CEO, & President,
retired
Ron recently retired from Transamerica after some forty years in the
corporate trenches and recently retiring as head of one of the nation’s
largest financial services firms. Transamerica is a nationally
recognized and highly ranked financial services and insurance
corporation. The Transamerica companies are dedicated to the level of
service they originated over 100 years ago-providing individuals,
families, and businesses with life insurance and investment products
designed to help build, protect, and preserve hard-earned assets.
From its beginnings as a small California life insurance company, TOLIC
now has $760 billion of insurance in force (as of Jan. 1, 2006). The
company continues its tradition of innovation and commitment with its
expansion into new domestic and Pacific Rim markets. Transamerica
Occidental Life Insurance Company is a member of the AEGON Group, a
multinational insurance organization headquartered in The Hague, the
Netherlands. The AEGON Group is one of the world’s leading life
insurance and financial services organizations.
Wagley is active in The CEO Forum, an organization of Christian CEOs
from many of our nation’s largest and well-known businesses.
He is active in various church ministries, Bible study
discipleship groups, and direct a foundation for helping abused women
and children. Ron speaks regularly to university students and
business groups on leadership lessons learned from over forty years of
corporate life.
Topic: “A Corporate Christian: An
Oxymoron?”
Mr. Wagley will share his spiritual journey while meeting the
ever-present challenges in a fast-paced and secular corporate world so
often contradictory to living out one’s Christian faith. Ron
shares his experiences of moving from “churchianity” to bringing his
growing faith into the corporate culture. His journey deals with
the difficulty and success in applying Biblical principles to such
real-life workplace issues such as ambition and advancement, career
direction, compensation, office politics, morality, quality of work,
ethics, and many other topics common to every business person.
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