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Thursday, September 25 | 10:45 AM Plenary 068 0.50 credit hours Continuing Education Accreditations applicable to this workshop: IBCC Lysa TerKeurst Proverbs 31 Ministries Biography Lysa TerKeurst is President and Chief Visionary Officer of Proverbs 31 Ministries. She is also the six-time New York Times’ best-selling author of Good Boundaries and Good byes, Forgiving What You Can’t Forget, It’s Not Supposed to Be This Way, Uninvited , and more. Her devotional, Em braced , won the ECPA Book of the Year for 2019. Lysa was also recently awarded the Champions of Faith Author Award and has often appeared on the Today Show as one of the leading voices in the Christian community. Each year, Lysa is a featured keynote presenter at events across North America and online, including the Global Leadership Net work. She also tours state-to-state regularly with Transpar ent Productions. Lysa is passionate about equipping wom en to share their stories for God’s glory through Proverbs 31 Ministries’ annual “She Speaks Conference” and her writer training program, COMPEL: Words That Move People. Connect with Lysa on social media at @lysaterkeurst or ly saterkeurst.com Thursday, September 25 | 10:45 AM Plenary 069 0.50 credit hours Continuing Education Accreditations applicable to this workshop: IBCC John Townsend, Ph.D. Townsend Institute for Leadership and Coun seling at Concordia University Irvine Biography John Townsend, Ph.D., is a New York Times’ best-selling author, business consultant, leadership coach and psy chologist. He has written 35 books, selling over 10 million copies, including Leading From Your Gut, People Fuel, and the Boundaries series, which has been translated into 40 languages. Dr. Townsend engages with leaders, organiza tions, and individuals around the globe, offering life-chang ing solutions to their challenges. He and his organization provide team coaching, executive coaching, corporate consulting, and give conference presentations. John also personally coaches leaders, families and family businesses. Dr. Townsend founded the fully accredited Townsend Insti tute for Leadership and Counseling at Concordia University Irvine, offering Masters degrees and certificates in Organi zational Leadership, Executive Coaching and Counseling,

as well as a Ph.D. program in Counseling Supervision and Education. Forbes Magazine designated the Ph.D. program as the #1 online doctorate in counseling in the country. John founded the Townsend Leadership Program, a team based holistic group which develops leaders in the US and Canada. Dr. Townsend has personally trained the TLP Di rectors, and they focus on the necessary task and people skills of the leader. Dr. Townsend and his team have created the Townsend Personal and Relational Assessment Tool (https://tprat.com), a 10-minute online, research-proven reliable and valid instrument, which measures the internal character capacities of an individual. Friday, September 26 | 1:00 PM Ticketed Event Plenary 070: Christian Leaders Luncheon 0.50 credit hours Continuing Education Accreditations applicable to this workshop: IBCC Jay Strack, D.Min. Biography For more than four decades, Dr. Jay Strack has shared his personal story of overcoming poverty, abuse, broken homes, and drug addiction. No stranger to personal adver sity, Jay believes, “there is always a way,” and his life mis sion is to create and facilitate innovative faith-based solu tions to bring about transformational leadership for this generation. He has presented pro bono speeches on drugs and drinking in 10,000 public high schools and universities and taught the Scriptures in area-wide crusades through out the country and around the world. Highly acclaimed by leadership in government entities, the business world, and educators as a dynamic and inspirational communicator, his unique, versatile style has been presented in 22 coun tries to some 15 million people. As the founder of Student Leadership University (SLU), he has pioneered innovative edutainment training by blending education with behind the-scenes access to global influencers. SLU and YPS equip students and their leadership with confidence, character, and a sure Biblical worldview. Saturday, September 27 | 7:30 AM Plenary 071 0.50 credit hours Continuing Education Accreditations applicable to this workshop: IBCC Greg Surratt The Pastors Collective Jay Strack Center for Global Leadership and Ministry at Charleston Southern University

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