Helping Florence Flourish To Serve As Host Site For Global Leadership Network’s Global Leadership Summit (GLS)

July 15, 2022
The Global Leadership Summit—the premier leadership event of the year—brings you a two-day catalytic experience of rich learning, new ideas, fresh perspective, and inspiring stories from leading experts spanning a wide range of fields and backgrounds. The Global Leadership Summit—the premier leadership event of the year—brings you a two-day catalytic experience of rich learning, new ideas, fresh perspective, and inspiring stories from leading experts spanning a wide range of fields and backgrounds.

Helping Florence Flourish (HFF) welcomes the Global Leadership Network’s Global Leadership Summit (GLS) to Florence, SC Thursday-Friday, August 4th - 5th. This is a virtual event, and HFF is gathering leaders and all to watch it together at First Presbyterian Church, 700 Park Avenue in Florence in the Fellowship Hall. The GLS "faculty" will be virtually present from GLS headquarters in Barrington, IL from 9:30 a.m. - 5:45 p.m. August 4th and 11:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. August 5th. The goal is to connect area believers for future collaboration in blessing the community.

The visionaries with the Global Leadership Summit recognize that people are facing burnout, broken relationships, a divided culture, seemingly endless conflicts, emotionally exhausted teams, and an undefined path ahead and this event works to address these issues. The Summit affords HFF the opportunity to move toward the goal to convene leaders from every sector to grow personally, but also to begin thinking, together, about how to address BIG issues in the local community such as at-risk kids, poverty, the importance of gospel saturation, etc. GLS begins the necessary collaboration and helps people discover how to voice their vision for a better future.

A few area businessmen and businesswomen are excited to begin developing a community of area Christian leaders. This event will challenge people personally and HFF hopes to begin collaborative thinking about how to bless the community together! People can expect talks from expert faculty* with keen insight on leadership including:

· Bob Iger - Former CEO and Executive Chairman of The Walt Disney Company

· Stephanie Chung - Chief Growth Officer, Wheels Up

· Andy Stanley - Founder & Pastor, North Point Ministries

· Johnny C. Taylor, Jr. - President & CEO, SHRM, the Society for Human Resource Management

· Lynsi Snyder - Owner & President, In-N-Out Burger

· Deb Liu - President & CEO, Ancestry

· Judah Smith - Lead Pastor, Churchome

· Vanessa Van Edwards - Founder & Lead Behavioral Investigator, Science of People

· Dr. Heidi Grant - Science of Leadership Expert

· Craig Groeschel - Founder & Senior Pastor, Life.Church; Best-Selling Author

· Sahar Hashemi - Founder, Coffee Republic

· Jon Acuff – Leadership Expert; Best-Selling Author

The faculty will also be joined by* GLN President & CEO, Tom De Vries, GLN Partners, Albert Tate, and Danielle Strickland and event hosts, Paula Faris, and Trey McKnight. Guest musical artists* are Lady A and America’s Got Talent’s “Golden-Buzzer” winner, Mandy Harvey.

Visit www.GlobalLeadership.org/Summit for schedule and overview of the event.

*Lineup subject to change

About Helping Florence Flourish

Helping Florence Flourish is made up of four focus groups that were established as a result of a survey given to 68 Christian leaders in Florence, SC that asked them to identify the greatest needs in our community. The results were racial bridging, restoration of the family, educational partnership and care for the homeless. An additional area was added: prayer. The work of these focus groups, along with the Citywide Prayer Gatherings, are the core of Helping Florence Flourish. Through the willing coordination of local nonprofit organizations, Florence churches, and volunteers, Helping Florence Flourish seeks to make visible positive changes in these critical areas. Helping Florence Flourish is working toward a visible demonstration of the unity of the body of Christ to bless Florence. To learn more, donate or get involved, visit www.helpingflorenceflourish.org.

About Global Leadership Summit

The Global Leadership Summit (GLS) is a two-day infusion of actionable leadership insights and inspiration broadcast to hundreds of host sites across the United States every August. In the following months, the GLS is translated, contextualized and hosted by local leadership committees at hundreds of locations across Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe and the Middle East. This global event convenes a world-class faculty who share their distinct perspectives and expertise, inspiring and equipping people around the world with practical leadership skills that can be applied within their context, wherever they have influence, and used to empower positive transformation where it’s needed most. Attracting an audience that represents various industries, including marketplace, non-profit, healthcare, education, government, ministry and corrections, the GLS has become a unique platform, unlike any other, bringing people together to not only empower better leadership within the organizations they represent, but in a growing number of cases around the world, this event also acts as a catalyst for organic local movements initiating systemic, city-wide change. What started as a single event back in 1990’s, the GLS has grown to attract tens of thousands of people today. www.GlobalLeadership.org/Summit