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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Author and founder | Stagecoach Ventures

Max is an entrepreneur and author. He is the founder of Stagecoach Ventures and author of the The Weekend Reader, a deep thinker’s guide to modern culture, and is the Author of Modern Meditations: Reflections from the Mid-Point of the Second Decade of the Twenty-first Century. Max is the founder and CEO of The Lift Seminar—a personal accelerator for entrepreneurs, and a platform for teaching MBAs at the world’s top business schools the secrets of massive personal productivity.

Max co-founded the MBA Oath upon graduating with honors from Harvard Business School and the Harvard Kennedy School in 2009. He co-authored a book of the same title, The MBA Oath (Penguin Portfolio) with Peter Escher in 2010.

Max has spoken at universities, companies, and not-for-profit organizations across the United States and Europe. His work has been profiled by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, NPR’s Weekend Edition, and dozens of other media outlets.

Max received an A.B. in History from Princeton University. He began his career at McKinsey & Co. in New York City, followed by work with leading organizations across the for-profit and non-profit world including Google, The Charlie Rose Show, Redeemer Presbyterian Church and, most recently, Bridgewater Associates — where he served in a number of leadership capacities as a member of the firm’s senior management cohort and as director of the firm’s Investment Associate leadership program. 

LINKS

• Stagecoach Ventures

• The Weekend Reader

• Modern Meditations: Reflections from the Mid-Point of the Second Decade of the Twenty-first Century

• The Lift Seminar

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communication expert

Nancy Duarte is a communication expert who has been featured in Fortune, Time Magazine, Forbes, Fast Company, Wired, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, LA Times, and on CNN. Her firm, Duarte, Inc., is the global leader behind some of the most influential visual messages in business and culture. As a persuasion expert, she cracked the code for effectively incorporating story patterns into business communications. She’s written five best-selling books, four of which have won awards.

Nancy worked with Al Gore on the documentary slide show known as An Inconvenient Truth. Duarte has also worked with TED Talks on quality changes for the presentations given at their events, and has presented her own TED Talks as well. She has been cited by publications writing about presentation style including The Guardian. Nancy holds an MDE from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA.

LINKS

Publications:

• An Inconvenient Truth

• slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations

• Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences

• HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations

• Illuminate: Ignite Change Through Speeches, Stories, Ceremonies and Symbols

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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

founder and chairman | Capital III

Pete Ochs is founder and chairman of Capital III, an impact investment company with investments in the US and Central America.  Enterprise Stewardship is an initiative of Capital III that equips marketplace leaders with resources to transform their personal LIFE and business enterprises. During his four decades in business he has invested and operated companies in the energy, manufacturing, banking, and education sectors, often times focusing on places devoid of human flourishing such as prisons and poverty-stricken countries. Pete’s passion in life is to educate, equip, and empower business leaders around the world to live for something greater than themselves by using their business platform to impact the world for Christ.  

Pete lives by four simple principles: Honor God; Serve People; Pursue Excellence; and Steward Capital.   These four simple but powerful principles when brought to bear on creating Economic, Social and Spiritual Capital result in a High Impact LIFE.   

Before launching his impact investment company Capital III, Pete spent 8 years in the commercial banking industry. Pete and his wife Debbie have been instrumental in founding and growing several nonprofit enterprises. They live in Valley Center, Kansas.  They have 2 children and 8 grandchildren.

LINKS

• Jailhouse Business of Generosity

• Inmate Confesses God’s Love at Seat King

• Work as Flourishing in Prison

• Enterprise Stewardship

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