founder and leader | Nashville Institute for Faith and Work

Missy Wallace founded and leads the Nashville Institute for Faith and Work (NIFW). She became inspired to study faith and work in 2013 after working in Corporate America and then the nonprofit sector for over 10 years each and realizing that work can be a part of God’s unfolding story if we allow him to guide it rather than our false idols. She launched the Institute after some divinity study and an intensive with Katherine Alsdorf, David Kim, and their team at The Center for Faith and Work at New York’s Redeemer Presbyterian Church.

Prior to launching NIFW, Missy worked at Bank of America in Charlotte, NC; The Boston Consulting Group in Chicago, Singapore, Bangkok and New York; Time Warner in New York, and most recently on the team that launched the high school division of Ensworth School where she worked in various roles over a decade in marketing, admissions, and college counseling.

Her combination of corporate experience, advising capability, theological focus, and nonprofit development gives her the unique ability to help those in the trenches bridge the sacred secular divide. Missy holds a BA in economics from Vanderbilt and an MBA from the JL Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern.

When not working, you can usually find Missy on the Red Trail in Percy Warner Park with her husband of 23 years, her dogs, and at least one of her three teenagers.

LINKS 

• LinkedIn

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founding partner | Teamworx 2

Nancy Ortberg served as a teaching pastor for eight years at Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Illinois. During that time she led Network, a ministry that helps people identify their spiritual gifts and find a place of service in the church, and Axis, a weekly gathering for the eighteen- to twenty-something generation.

She is a founding partner of Teamworx 2, a business and leadership consulting firm that provides fast-paced, practical, and compelling sessions to leaders and their teams. Teamworx 2 works with businesses, schools, nonprofits, and churches to address issues of organizational effectiveness and teamwork.

Nancy is a gifted communicator who is passionate about helping people connect what they believe with their everyday lives. She is currently the CEO of Transforming the Bay with Christ, a non-profit organization working to catalyze a holistic gospel movement in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Nancy is the author of Looking for God: An Unexpected Journey through tattoos, tofu, & pronouns and Unleashing the Power of Rubber Bands, lessons in non-linear leadership.

She and her husband, John, live in the Bay Area and have three children.

LINKS 

• Nancy on Unity

• Nancy with Pat Gelsinger on Work is Worship

• LinkedIn

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HOPE international

Prior to joining HOPE, Peter worked internationally as a micro-finance advisor in Cambodia, technical advisor for Self-Help Development Foundation in Zimbabwe, and managing director for Urwego Community Bank in Rwanda. He received a B.S. in international business from Messiah College and an MPP from Harvard’s Kennedy School.

As an advocate for the Church’s role in missions and alleviating extreme poverty, Peter has been a speaker at a number of conferences, and he has been featured by Christianity Today, World, Forbes, CNN, and RELEVANT. He has also written The Spiritual Danger of Doing Good (with Anna Haggard, 2013), Mission Drift (with Chris Horst, 2014; selected as a 2015 Book Award Winner from Christianity Today), Entrepreneurship for Human Flourishing (with Chris Horst, 2014), Stop Helping Us (2014), Watching Seeds Grow (with his son Keith, 2014), The Giver and the Gift (with David Weekley, 2015), 40/40 Vision (with Greg Lafferty, 2015), Created to Flourish (with Phil Smith, 2016), The Board and the CEO (with David Weekley, 2017), and Rooting for Rivals (with Chris Horst, 2018).

Currently, Peter serves as the entrepreneur-in-residence at Messiah College and as a Praxis Venture Partner.

Peter and his wife, Laurel, live in Lancaster, PA, with their three children, Keith, Lilianna, and Myles.

LINKS 

https://www.hopeinternational.org

https://www.peterkgreer.com

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Chairman | The Clemens Family Corporation

Philip A. Clemens is the Retired Chairman/Family Ambassador of The Clemens Family Corporation. 

Mr. Clemens has spent his entire working career with the family business.  He began working in the legacy business, Hatfield Quality Meats, on a part time basis while going to school.  He began his full-time career in 1967 while attending Peirce College.  His career has allowed him to work in all areas of the business.  He began on the clean-up crew and worked his way to be the CEO of the Company. In 2015 he retired as Chairman and now serves as a family ambassador to family businesses throughout the US.  The Corporation has annual sales in excess of $1 billion, employs over 3,500 team members, and markets products all over the US with a concentration in the northeast part of the US. 

Mr. Clemens is active in his community and other organizations.  He serves on many non-profit boards and several family owned businesses. He is a national speaker on family business issues and has a passion to teach leadership skills to next generations.

Mr. Clemens received the American Meat Institute’s Industry Advancement Award, the highest award given in the meat industry; the Knowlton Award for innovation in the meat industry; Meat Industry Hall of Fame; Edward C. Jones Community Service Award; Pride of Peirce for outstand alumni of Peirce College; Pillar of the Community from Harleysville Senior Center; Hall of Fame Executive Award from Elizabethtown College; Excellence in Leadership from the Christian Economic Forum; and honorary doctorates from Lancaster Bible College and Elizabethtown College.

Mr. Clemens has been married to Linda for 45 years and has 3 adult children. He also has 7 grandsons.  

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CEO | Nature Nate’s

Nathan Sheets got the nickname “Nature Nate” in college because he was a nature lover and outdoorsman.

After graduating from college and owning his own ad agency, Nathan began serving in the ministry. He has journeyed on 100+ mission trips all over the world with the goal of helping others. He was also one of the driving forces behind the global “I Am Second” media campaign that highlights stories of hundreds of lives transformed through the grace of Jesus Christ.

In 2010, he decided to make honey his full-time endeavor. And life has never been sweeter. As Nate likes to say, “The Lord has blessed us so we can be a blessing to others.”

LINKS 

• LinkedIn

• Nature Nate’s

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Nicole Dickens has more than 15 years of Fortune 100 management experience in strategic planning and analysis, new product introductions, and financial management.  She has developed high functioning teams in both spin-off and merger environments, and successfully executed the implementation of business process and controls. She also consults in developing nations to help SMBs grow as a means of dealing with poverty and unemployment within these nations. She has teamed up with other colleagues to develop various products and services around helping people live authentic, impactful lives in the marketplace that is consistent with their belief systems. She has also held various positions on the boards of non-profits, including Board Chair. Nicole received an MBA from the Ross School at the University of Michigan and a B.S. in Commerce from the McIntire School at the University of Virginia. She is currently the founder of Zoetica, Inc., a company seeking to bridge the gap between faith and innovation by helping bring new ideas to life and is on the managing team of Passion Talks, International.

Nicole has served the Body of Christ through various ministries and is active in her local church. She is also a group leader for Bible Study Fellowship International. Passionate about seeing women operate in their full, post-Cross potential, you will find her committing time and resources to helping women walk out the fullness of their lives in Christ. She also thinks she’s successfully mastered the art of aunting (a great gig if you can get it, by the way).

LINKS

• Passion Talks