The 2024 Global Leadership Summit: Get To Know Our Speakers (Part One)

The Global Leadership Summit (GLS) is an annual event hosted live from Willow Creek Church outside of Chicago and is broadcast to satellite locations across the globe, including Warsaw, IN. 

This 2-day event brings together top-notch global leadership faculty, and C4One hosts the satellite location in Warsaw to bring this content to our city, community, and county.

Interested in being a sponsor? Our goal is to make it easy for you to motivate positive change in our community, so you can choose from a variety of sponsorship levels and bring your team to GLS this year.

Equipping You To Design Your Tomorrow

The theme of this year’s GLS event is “Equipping You To Design Your Tomorrow”. We want to connect curious, growth-minded people together to ignite transformation, wherever they are and in whatever they do. 

GLS is designed to do just that: bringing men and women from various industries and backgrounds to develop their insight and skills to drive a positive influence on the world around them. No matter your professional background and position, GLS will empower you with the skills you need to design your tomorrow.

Get To Know The 2024 Event Speakers

*Faculty lineup and topics are subject to change

There will be at least 12 speakers presenting information and inspiring their audiences around the world at GLS, so be sure to keep an eye on our website and social media channels as we continue to release more information the closer we get to GLS in August!

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Graig Groeschel

Founder and Senior Pastor, Life.Church; Bestselling Author

Globally recognized as a leader of leaders, Craig Groeschel is the founder and Senior Pastor of Life.Church, rated by Glassdoor as the #1 Place to Work for two consecutive years under his leadership. Known for their missional approach to leveraging the latest technology, Life.Church is the creator of the YouVersion Bible App – installed on more than half a billion unique devices worldwide. 

He is the host of the top-ranked “Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast.” A New York Times bestselling author, his latest book is “Think Ahead: 7 Decisions You Can Make Today for

the God-Honoring Life You Want Tomorrow.”

Presenting: Permission To Obsess

Everything around you is pushing you toward conformity and mediocrity. You were trained for average. We have had our obsessions neutralized and diminished. But what if we have been talked out of using one of our greatest strengths? 

Join Craig Groeschel as he challenges you to re-think obsession and instead harness it to lead and live life with distinction and excellence. In this talk, identify 3 ways that strategic obsession will ignite your drive toward greater impact.

Joni Eareckson Tada

Founder and CEO, Joni and Friends; Disability Advocate; Bestselling Author

Joni Eareckson Tada is a respected global leader in disability advocacy, as well as a celebrated Christian author. Although a 1967 diving accident left her quadriplegic, she emerged from rehabilitation with a determination to help others in similar conditions.

Tada serves as CEO of Joni and Friends, which provides support services for thousands of families that struggle with disability. During her tenure on the National Council on Disability,

the ADA was passed and signed into law. 

Tada also served on the Disability Advisory Committee under Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. The Colson Center on Christian Worldview awarded Joni Tada its prestigious William Wilberforce Award, and she also received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Christian Leadership Alliance. 

Tada is an avid mentor of young people with disabling conditions and an effective communicator, sharing her inspirational message through books, artwork, radio, and other media.

Presenting: The Paradox Of Leading From Your Weakness

There will come a time when every leader experiences pain or loss so great they believe it may crush them – ending up in a story they would have never chosen. 

Join Joni Eareckson Tada, as she guides us through these inevitable seasons. Walk away with insights into what suffering exposes, how weakness trumps power, and how God uses these times in ways beyond our imagination.

Marcus Buckingham

Global Researcher; Entrepreneur; Founder of the Strengths Revolution

Marcus Buckingham is the world’s most prominent researcher on strengths, leadership, and high performance at work. After spending two decades studying excellence at the Gallup Organization and co-creating the StrengthsFinder tool, he built his own software company focused on helping team leaders excel.

Today he leads the ADP Research Institute’s global studies into people and performance at work. Buckingham is the author of two of the best-selling business books of all time, has two of Harvard Business Review’s most circulated, industry-changing cover articles, and has been the subject of in-depth profiles in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Forbes, Fortune, The Today Show and The Oprah Winfrey Show. His latest book, Love + Work, reveals the power of love to pinpoint a person’s true power and shows how to turn this power into a contribution in life and in work.

Presenting: Unleash The Most Powerful Force In Business

Each of us wants desperately to work for a team, and a leader who sees our humanity – including our idiosyncrasy, difference, and individuality – as a feature, rather than a problem. Join Marcus Buckingham as he helps us become a leader who strives to help us express ourselves, rather than forcing us to conform. 

Explore the discoveries to be made when we reverse-engineer love to identify its core elements and the data that supports these findings. Identify how you can design love into all employee and customer touchpoints. Become a leader who takes seriously our yearning to find love in our work.

2024 Global Leadership Summit

This year’s leadership speakers represent the best of ministry wisdom and marketplace knowledge to inspire and equip you in your leadership journey, so you can be a catalyst for change in the world.

GLS will take place on August 8-9, streaming live from Chicago to our satellite location at Warsaw Community Church.

We’ll be sharing more specific speaker information and topics in the coming months and hope you decide to join us this year!

Interested in being a sponsor? Our goal is to make it easy for you to motivate positive change in our community, so you can choose from a variety of sponsorship levels and bring your team to GLS this year.

Get Involved With C4One

Want to get more involved with C4One? You can join us once for an event or regularly for connection, fellowship, and discussions for leaders in every type of field by attending one of our events. 

We regularly connect with working parents, college students, boardroom CEOs, teachers, pastors, and everyone in between!

We’re here to inspire you as a leader in the marketplace as we work together to live our lives on mission; transforming our communities.