Bil Cornelius is the founder and lead pastor of Church Unlimited, which has grown to a membership of over 8,000 people between multiple campuses, making it one of Outreach Magazine’s Top 100 Fastest-Growing Churches. In 2008, he launched Bil Cornelius Ministries, a TV ministry that brings his message of hope to South Texas. Bil is also a sought-after speaker and church health and growth consultant and lives in Texas with his wife, Jessica, and their three children.

Mike Royal is the National Director of TLG, an award-winning charity, enabling churches to work with children and young people at risk of exclusion from school across the UK. Mike has 15 years experience in local church leadership and has been the National Youth Director of a church denomination. Mike was formerly an Urban Planner with a first class degree in Urban Studies. He serves as an adviser to statutory agencies on gang-related issues. He was champion for the Young People key line of enquiry for the Birmingham Strategic Partnership social inclusion process. He also chaired a policy working group for the Centre for Social Justice on Youth Justice Reform. He has a Masters degree in Black Theology from Birmingham University, and has been married to Viviene for 20 years.

Rev Dr Kate Coleman is founding director of Next Leadership.  She has nearly 30 years of leadership experience in the church, charity and voluntary sectors and is a mentor and coach to leaders.

Kate recently completed a term as Chair of the Evangelical Alliance Council (2012-2014), is a former president of the Baptist Union of Great Britain (2006-2007), and a Baptist Minister.

A popular speaker and lecturer, Kate has gained a reputation as a visionary and an inspiration to many. She is a strategic advisor who mentors, coaches and supports leaders and organisations locally, nationally and internationally. Her network extends across all sectors and church denominations. Kate is author of 7 Deadly Sins of Women in Leadership.

Her media contributions include the mainstream press, radio and TV.

Kate is a Certified Stakeholder Centered Coach.

Paul Payne is the co-leader of the Dunamis Network – a network focused on the development and character building of young people, through mentorship and empowerment. With aim to build and grow the capacity of urban communities towards confidence and societal leadership. Paul is also a dynamic public speaker and advocate for human rights and freedom. He's also the Operations Manager at ‘The Key is E’, a social investment fund which identifies and invests African entrepreneurs and small businesses that will strongly benefit and impact the lives of children. Paul is also official Aid and Parliamentary Researcher to Lord (Dr) Michael Hastings, CBE. He works hard at encouraging and facilitating collaboration between stakeholders in various industries such as government, business and NGOS.

Andy and his wife, Janine come from the beautiful east coast of New Zealand. Together with their four elementary aged children and ten suitcases, they arrived in Redding, California in August of 2008. They had a dream to give their lives to develop people. Little did they know they would soon be partnering with Danny Silk and his new team, helping develop an organization to build the lives of people.

Andy and Janine helped develop and now lead the Dream Coaching Program at Bethel Church. This has spread into programs and classes in Bethel Christian School and Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry. They have also helped catalyze Dream Cultures in other churches, businesses and a Community Center.

Andy has a background ranging from relationship management and agri-business consultancy to international community development, having helped establish a microfinance project, orphan program and leadership development in eastern Uganda. He was also involved for ten years in the leadership team of a local New Zealand church. At the core of all this was the desire to help people discover purpose and resource them in whatever way possible to get there. (See also HeaveninBusiness.com)

Kristian Thorpe is the Lead Pastor of Arena Church. Kristian first came to Arena Church in 2000, after moving from Milton Keynes Christian Centre where he served as Youth Pastor. He served alongside former Senior Pastor Eric Hobson before taking over the leadership of the church in 2007. He is genuinely excited about the church and is passionate about bringing the good news of Jesus Christ to all people in the most practical, relevant and understandable way. Kristianis impassioned by the church working as a team and believes that church should be welcoming, fun, full of vision and should above all show the love and power of God. Kristian is married to Caroline and they have four fantastic children; Annie, Eleanor, Isaac and Lilia.

Akomaye Ugar is a prolific writer, Leadership and personal development consultant, value-powered speaker, and pastor. Though based in Calabar, Nigeria, he travels internationally on regular speaking schedules especially to the United States of America and the United Kingdom.

Steve is Chair of the Chamberlain Forum a community development think tank that advises local and national government, he is a trustee of a national charity, Vice Chair of Governors at a secondary school in the top 1% for added value, and led Greater Birmingham and Solihull LEPs medium sized business task force.

Steve works with individual leaders. His Executive Coaching skills are highly valued – clients see substantial change and growth and value Steve’s insight.

Steve works with teams. He brings strong facilitation skills and expertise in leadership and change to team events, leadership programmes and workshops. He enables teams to problem solve, innovate and create new direction. He strengthens teams – making best use of individual and collective strengths, with a clear direction and a focus on high performance.

Steve works with organisations. He helps them review their strategic direction and potential for growth, benchmarking against world class standards. He enables organisations to transform and build high performance cultures

Steve is a specialist in: Executive coaching, change leadership, performance management, organisation effectiveness, high impact leadership development programmes, personality testing, recruitment and selection

Yvonne Elizabeth Brooks is the First Assistant Pastor of New Jerusalem Apostolic Church – a thriving church that is having a huge impact in its community. She is also the founder and Director of Women of Purpose Ministries; a UK based organisation that seeks to spread the gospel to all women and equip them to fulfil their destiny.

A qualified Behavioural Consultant, Mental Health Nurse and Registered General Nurse, Yvonne’s passion for seeing people receive deliverance, healing and restoration is evident as she ministers. She has helped many people change the course of their life by delivering the true Word of God in her dynamic and unique way of connecting to the hearts of people.

She is also a much sought after speaker, in demand across the United Kingdom, Europe, the Caribbean, the USA and more recently in Africa. She is a preacher, teacher, counsellor and friend to all who cross her path. Additionally, she has presented on television and radio including co-presenting She Matters on Revelation TV and her most recent project has been co-presenting on Womenz World on OHTV.

“Touching God’s Heart: Prayers that make a difference” – is Yvonne’s first audio book. It is a well needed tool for many who seek to get closer to God through prayer but sometimes do not know the words to pray. The CD accompanied by the book will guide the reader into developing their own purposeful and rewarding prayer life.

Pastor Yvonne has completed a Bachelor’s Degree in Biblical Studies and a Doctorate in Theology and Biblical Studies. This is testament to her desire to grow and develop to enable her to be a blessing to others. She was recognised with an award from the Association of Jamaican Nationals for being a local hero in the Community and also the Women of Excellence Trailblazer Award. In March 2013 she was recognised for her work as a woman in ministry and received the award in this category from the Wise Women Awards.

Yvonne is married to Bishop Melvin A. Brooks who is the Senior Pastor at New Jerusalem and she is mother to their three talented children; psalmist Rebecca (who is married to Patrick), is renowned for her powerful and dynamic vocal talent, Adam (who is married to Estelle) is an accomplished keyboard player, and last but not least Matthew who is a very skilled drummer.

Rev. Joel Edwards is the International Director for Micah Challenge, a global Christian response to extreme poverty.  Prior to his role within Micah Challenge, Joel was General Director of the Evangelical Alliance UK, a post he held for over 10 years. He was also formerly a Commissioner on the Equality and Human Rights Commission for the UK. 

Currently, Joel is an Advisory Member of Tony Blair’s Faith Foundation. He also serves as a member of the Advisory Board on Human Rights & Religious Freedom with the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office.  

A regular broadcaster with the BBC and other UK and international media channels, Joel is often asked to bring a Christian perspective to current issues.

Joel is an honorary Canon of St Paul’s Cathedral, London, and has an honorary doctorate from St Andrews University, Scotland. He is currently a doctoral student at St. John's, Durham where he is also a Visiting Fellow of the College. 

He is married to Carol and they have two adult children and two grandchildren. 

Gary Rucci and his wife, Nikki relocated from Brisbane, Australia to work with the National Leadership team of the Assemblies of God Great Britain to assist them with strategy implementation and leadership development. He's have been in full-time ministry for over 25 years and are both credentialed ministers. They have served in various capacities with significant senior leaders in some of Australia's largest churches. They are passionate about community transformation, leadership development, discipleship, mission and mobilisation.

Gary was recently appointed a member of the national team by conference in May 2011. They are responsible for leading the AOG vision for the 151 churches currently located within the geographic area known as 'London and East'. Gary was also recently appointed as Director of Mission for the denomination.

Gary is known for his passionate and articulate communication and has served on several elderships, boards and leadership teams developing strategies and systems to enhance the influence and growth of both local churches and mission organisations. For more than 10 years he was the Australian representative for Next Wave International a European-based mission led by fellow Australian, Mal Fletcher. He served as European representative for ACC and for many years as the Australian representative for Chinese City Gospel Mission with Brother Mak. Gary have ministered in more than 40 nations and led more than 500 people on short term missions teams.

Dr David Carr is the Senior Pastor of Renewal Christian Centre in Solihull, United Kingdom and Bishop of the Order of St Leonard.

A writer, broadcaster and pastor, Bishop David travels extensively across the globe, sharing his vision - and leads his church to some of the most deprived areas of the world, with missions aimed at alleviating the struggle of orphans, disabled children and people whose lives have been devastated by disaster.

Closer to home, he founded a mission to feed families within the local region who found themselves in difficulty (now termed ‘the fourth emergency service’ by Solihull’s Mayor) and he is patron of the Gateway Foundation - a charity to support and mentor recovering drug addicts, alcoholics and ex-offenders.

Les Isaac is currently the CEO of a Christian charity called Ascension Trust which he formed in 1993. His mission is to train and develop individuals to serve the local community, city, nation and nations of the world. His desire is to see Christians working more effectively in their society. Such is his determination and convictions for Christians to get involved and impact their communities and society at large that he co-launched an innovative project called the ‘Street Pastors Initiative’ which provides a late night outreach service in high crime areas to tackle the issue of guns, knives and violent crimes on the streets of Britain.

The Street Pastors initiative was launched in Lambeth in 2003 with 18 street Pastors, today there are 25 projects running within the 33 boroughs of London and over 100 projects in other major cities, towns and villages with one international project in Antigua & Barbuda and the work is continually developing with over 2000 Street Pastors!

Les has been a minister in Lambeth for over 30 years and he also serves as the Chair of the Convenor of Ecumenical Lambeth Borough Deans. He is also the Associate Senior Minister of Life Centre, a lively church in Lambeth and serves as an oversight Elder in CLF International

Perry Marshall is one of the world’s most expensive and sought-after business consultants. Clients seek him for his capacity to integrate many disparate fields: engineering, biology, chaos theory, mathematics, physics, art and psychology.

He has launched two online revolutions. In Pay Per Click advertising, he pioneered many of today’s best practices and wrote the world’s best selling book on internet advertising, The Ultimate Guide to Google AdWords.

More recently, he’s applied the 80/20 Principle to more facets of business than any other author, being the first to expand on 80/20 as an infinite fractal law of nature. 80/20 is the central lever for nearly every profitable strategy in sales, marketing and business. His book 80/20 Sales & Marketing is required reading in many growing companies.

Works also include the bestseller Ultimate Guide to Facebook Advertising (Entrepreneur Press, 2nd Edition 2014), Evolution 2.0:Breaking the Deadlock Between Darwin and Design (BenBella, 2015) and Industrial Ethernet (ISA, 2nd Edition).

He is referenced in dozens of influential business books by authors like Jay Conrad Levinson, Mark Joyner, Joel Comm and Mari Smith. He’s shared the stage with Barbara Corcoran, Brian Tracy and Les Brown, having consulted in over 300 industries.