Dr. J.R. Briggs’ work seeks to bridge the gap between spiritual formation and actionable leadership practices, aiming to help faith leaders and their organizations grow both in their faith and their i...

Dr. J.R. Briggs’ work seeks to bridge the gap between spiritual formation and actionable leadership practices, aiming to help faith leaders and their organizations grow both in their faith and their impact on their communities. In 2011, he started Kairos Partnerships, an organization committed to serving leaders through coaching, consulting, speaking, and teaching. For more than 15 years, J.R. served in pastoral roles in mega-churches, church plants, and house church networks. Since starting Kairos Partnerships, he has coached a wide variety of leaders, including business owners, pastors, college presidents, non-profit directors, school superintendents, and entrepreneurs. He has taught in higher education since 2017. After serving in the Practical Theology department at Missio Seminary, he now serves a guest instructor at Friends University in the Masters of Christian Spiritual Formation & Leadership program and Taylor University in their MA in Leadership program. He has guest lectured, taught, and spoken at over a dozen colleges, universities, and seminaries around the U.S. He has written, co-written, and contributed to 15 books on a wide variety of topics, and published over 50 articles, both online and in print, with Christianity Today, Huffington Post, Preaching Today, American Bible Society, N.T. Wright Online, Missio Alliance, Relevant Magazine, and several others. His most recent book, The Art of Asking Better Questions (InterVarsityPress, 2025) is his passion project, as he is driven to help leaders grow to become better question askers. He and his wife Megan have been married for over 24 years and have two teenage sons, Carter and Bennett. They live in Lansdale, PA in the greater Philadelphia area.

Jack Alexander is chairman of the Reimagine Group and has rich experience leading a variety of businesses. A previous recipient of an Ernst & Young National Entrepreneur of the Year Award, he is a reg...

Jack Alexander is chairman of the Reimagine Group and has rich experience leading a variety of businesses. A previous recipient of an Ernst & Young National Entrepreneur of the Year Award, he is a regular speaker, coach, and advisor. He and his wife, Lisa, live in Atlanta. They have three grown sons and five grandchildren.

Jack Countryman is the founder of JCountryman gift books— a division of Thomas Nelson—and is the recipient of the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association’s Jordan Lifetime Achievement Award. Over...

Jack Countryman is the founder of JCountryman gift books— a division of Thomas Nelson—and is the recipient of the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association’s Jordan Lifetime Achievement Award. Over the past thirty years, he has developed bestselling gift books such as God’s Promises for Your Every Need®, God’s Promises for Men®, God’s Promises for Women®, God’s Blessings Just for You® and The Red Letter Words of Jesus. Countryman’s books have sold more than 27 million units.

Jack Deere is a writer and lecturer who speaks throughout the world. He was an assistant professor of Old Testament at Dallas Theological Seminary for more than ten years, until he was fired in 1987 f...

Jack Deere is a writer and lecturer who speaks throughout the world. He was an assistant professor of Old Testament at Dallas Theological Seminary for more than ten years, until he was fired in 1987 for reversing his stance on the gifts of the Holy Spirit - he had come to believe that gifts such as healing and prophecy are accessible today. This experience became the basis of his bestselling books, Surprised by the Power of the Spirit and Surprised by the Voice of God. Deere then spent four years with John Wimber at the Vineyard Christian fellowship in Anaheim California, and went on to pastor other churches. Jack and his wife Leesa currently live in St. Louis, where he is caring for her as she recovers from strokes. They are the parents of Stephen, Alese, and the late Scott Deere.

Jack Goodyear serves as the Dean for the Gary Cook School ofLeadership and as Professor of Political Science at Dallas Baptist University. Dr. Goodyear joined the faculty in January 2008, teaching pol...

Jack Goodyear serves as the Dean for the Gary Cook School ofLeadership and as Professor of Political Science at Dallas Baptist University. Dr. Goodyear joined the faculty in January 2008, teaching political science full-time. Dr. Goodyear was then the Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences from 2012-2014, where he enjoyed working with the faculty and students in the college while continuing to teach Political Science courses. In August 2014, Dr. Goodyear was asked to serve as the Director of the Ph.D. in Leadership Studies program. In 2016, Dr. Goodyear was appointed as Dean of the Cook School of Leadership as well as Director of the Ph.D. in Leadership Studies program. In June 2017, a new Director of the Ph.D. in Leadership Studies was named allowing Dr. Goodyear to focus fully on the Dean’s role. Prior to coming to DBU, Dr. Goodyear served for ten years as a minister in churches in Arlington, Texas, and Tampa, Florida. He has been married to Jessica for 20 years. She has her master’s degree in education and taught elementary school prior to returning to school and becoming a nurse. She is now a labor and delivery nurse. Jack and Jessica have five children—Grant, Claire, Tessa, Treyvion, and Nehemiah. They are members of First Baptist Church of Arlington, where Jack serves as a deacon, and he and Jessica teach in the 11th Grade Sunday School Department. Dr. Goodyear holds a Ph.D. in Religion, Politics, and Society from Baylor University. His studies focused on the historical, philosophical, theological, and sociological interactions between religion and politics and the church and state, paying special attention to the impact of evangelicals in American politics and culture. He also earned a Master of Divinity with Biblical Languages degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. His bachelor’s degree is fromBaylor University in Political Science.

Jack Hibbs is the senior and founding pastor of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills in Southern California. He is also the host of the nationally syndicated TV and radio program Real Life, and his daily media...

Jack Hibbs is the senior and founding pastor of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills in Southern California. He is also the host of the nationally syndicated TV and radio program Real Life, and his daily media programs reach millions world wide. Jack and his wife, Lisa, have two adult daughters and three grandchildren.

Jack was born in 1932 in Germany to his Jewish mother and Catholic father, and lived in Austria until 1936. Anticipating Hitler’s invasion of Austria, his parents sent Jack and his brother, Peter, bac...

Jack was born in 1932 in Germany to his Jewish mother and Catholic father, and lived in Austria until 1936. Anticipating Hitler’s invasion of Austria, his parents sent Jack and his brother, Peter, back to Germany to live with their Jewish grandparents in Berlin. As Hitler’s persecution of the Jews intensified, Jack’s grandfather sneaked the boys into hiding at a children’s summer camp in the resort village of Dangast, 200 miles northwest of Berlin on the North Sea. The camp was operated by a brave and sympathetic German woman named Irma Franzen-Heinrichsdorff. Jack and Peter lived with “Tante Irma” for twelve years, where they survived bombing raids, SS police surveillance, and food shortages. Their mother died in Auschwitz. Their father, a political prisoner in the Mauthausen concentration camp, died shortly after his liberation after World War II ended. At age seventeen, Jack began his second life when the U.S. Committee for the Care of European Children relocated him and Peter to the United States. Driven to “build something that will last” with his new found freedom in Baltimore, Jack took night classes to learn English and found a job at a small insurance company. After serving two years in the U.S. Army, where he was selected for the color guard at the ten-year commemoration of the D-Day invasion in Normandy, Jack married Zonia, a former Miss El Salvador. They raised three daughters, Odette, Dana, and Lisa. In 1969, Jack founded Diversified Insurance Industries, an agency that he built into one of the top 200 in the country. Jack also played hard as a skier, pilot, thoroughbred racehorse owner, deep-sea fisherman, and world traveler. He golfed with astronaut Alan Shepard and volleyed with tennis star Maria Sharapova. These days, when Jack is not in the office, he enjoys spending time with his daughters and four grandchildren, Elle, Thomas, Gillian, and Aidan.

Jacki Deason is a Senior Fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation and the host of The Jacki Daily Show, airing on Glenn Beck’s TheBlaze, on the dial in Texas, and podcast on iHeartRadio, iTunes, S...

Jacki Deason is a Senior Fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation and the host of The Jacki Daily Show, airing on Glenn Beck’s TheBlaze, on the dial in Texas, and podcast on iHeartRadio, iTunes, SoundCloud, and Google Play Music. Previously, Jacki served as General Counsel to an engineering firm specializing in energy, national security and environmental cleanup. She served many years as legal counsel on Capitol Hill to the Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Constitution and the former Ranking Member of the Commercial and Administrative Law Subcommittee, advising on the oversight of federal agencies. Prior to her career in Washington, she worked as a corporate litigator, and as an Assistant Vice President for a national bank. She entered public life at a young age, as a finalist in the Miss Teen of America pageant. She also served as the Public Relations Director for a statewide political organization.

co-founder of Museum of the Bible, is a full-time homemaker who relishes her roles of wife, mother to six children, mother-in-law, and “Gigi” to four grandchildren. Over the past six years, Jackie has...

co-founder of Museum of the Bible, is a full-time homemaker who relishes her roles of wife, mother to six children, mother-in-law, and “Gigi” to four grandchildren. Over the past six years, Jackie has assisted Steve on the Museum of the Bible project and has volunteered and worked first hand with the Development Team in a variety of areas such as hospitality and event planning. She has worked to initiate the MOTB Women of Legacy events, encouraging women to be intentional in leaving their legacy imprint. Jackie’s other involvements include her home church and Christian charities both national and international. She and Steve live in Oklahoma City. Together, Steve & Jackie Green wrote This Dangerous Book

Jake Schick, Warrior Relations Specialist with the Brain Performance Institute’s Warrior Training Team, is a third generation Marine who epitomizes service and sacrifice. After a triple-stacked tan...

Jake Schick, Warrior Relations Specialist with the Brain Performance Institute’s Warrior Training Team, is a third generation Marine who epitomizes service and sacrifice. After a triple-stacked tank mine detonated below his vehicle in Al Anbar Province, Iraq in 2004, Jake suffered compound fractures in his left leg and left arm; multiple skin, ligament and bone losses; varying burns; partial loss of his left hand and arm; amputation below the knee of his right leg, traumatic brain injury (TBI) and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Jake has undergone 46 operations, 23 blood transfusions, and countless hours of rehabilitation. Jake will tell you his physical injuries weren’t the worst that happened to him. For years he dreaded his TBI and PTSD diagnosis; a common mindset among warriors. After being encouraged by a fellow warrior to train his brain the way he re-trained his body, Jake skeptically participated in the Brain Performance Institute’s high performance brain training, called SMART. He credits this opportunity with making him a better husband, father and man. Since participating in the SMART program, Jake has become a staunch advocate for maximizing the cognitive potential in people from all walks of life and shares his story and the effects of being severely wounded at public speaking engagements throughout the country.

Jacob Shatzer (PhD, Marquette University) is assistant professor and associate dean in the School of Theology and Missions (STM) at Union University. He is an ordained Southern Baptist minister and th...

Jacob Shatzer (PhD, Marquette University) is assistant professor and associate dean in the School of Theology and Missions (STM) at Union University. He is an ordained Southern Baptist minister and the author of A Spreading and Abiding Hope, editor of a volume of essays by A. J. Conyers, and assistant editor for Ethics & Medicine. Shatzer has published in the fields of theology and ethics, and is an expert in the thought of the late Southern Baptist theologian A. J. Conyers. He has contributed scholarly essays to The New Bioethics, Pro Ecclesia, and The Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture. He is also project director and consultant for BibleMesh, a trusted source for online theological education. He is an active member of the Evangelical Theological Society, where he serves on the steering committee for the study group “Voices in American Theology and Culture: Wendell Berry.”

A classically trained pianist and vocalist, Boston native Jaime Jamgochian has been a beloved voice in Christian music for nearly two decades. Known for her hope-filled anthems that point listeners to...

A classically trained pianist and vocalist, Boston native Jaime Jamgochian has been a beloved voice in Christian music for nearly two decades. Known for her hope-filled anthems that point listeners towards their value and purpose in Christ, Jamgochian was one of the first artists signed to Centricity Records. Releasing three acclaimed recordings with the label, her 2006 single, “Hear My Worship,” spent 12 weeks at #1 on Christian radio, and Jamgochian was named Billboard’s top Inspirational artist of 2008. Her first release in nearly a decade, 2020’s All Things was nominated for a Dove Award for Inspirational Album of the Year. Marking Jamgochian’s return to music following a lengthy battle with Lyme disease, the project chronicled her season of suffering and celebration of healing. A Curb | Word songwriter, Jamgochian is also a sought-after worship leader and speaker, and she spent several years on staff at Nashville's The Belonging Co, where she was part of the pioneering team that launched the church in 2014.