The Willow Creek Association’s Global Leadership Summit brings together not only faith leaders but leaders in all types of organizations. The slate of speakers intentionally includes not only those from churches and faith-based organizations, but corporate executives, consultants, and researchers who deal with people development. Speakers this year included Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer of Facebook, and author of Lean In and Option B (with Adam Grant); Marcus Lemonis, CEO of Camping World and Good Sam, and host of the TV show, The Profit; Laszlo Bock, Senior Advisor at Google and author of Work Rules ; Marcus Buckingham, consultant/researcher and author of StandOut 2.0 ; Sam Adeyemi, pastor of Daystar Christian Centre in Nigeria; and Angela Duckworth, professor at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Grit: The Power of Passion and Perservance. A common theme among these speakers was that people basically want to do good work and...
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