Busana Apparel Group

Marissa is passionate about using business as a vehicle for shining God’s light and truth into the world. At Busana Apparel Group, Marissa develops new business opportunities and drives corporate strategy. The group’s factories in Indonesia and Ethiopia employ over 27,000 people, of which 90% are young women around Marissa’s age. She is thankful for the opportunity to serve God in this family business, founded by her late father.

Prior to working with Busana Apparel Group in Jakarta, Marissa worked in Barclays Capital’s investment banking division in New York. Marissa started her career at Lehman Brothers, where she lived through the firm’s collapse in 2008.

Since 2008, Marissa has actively pursued spiritual integration in faith and work. In New York, while attending Redeemer Presbyterian Church, she was a fellow of the 9-month Gotham Fellowship in 2011. In Jakarta, Marissa joined the 6-month Kingdom Entrepreneurship Academy (KEA) in 2014 and subsequently served as a Director of KEA from 2015 until 2018.

Marissa earned a Bachelor of Science degree magna cum laude from Tufts University with a major in mechanical engineering and a minor in entrepreneurial leadership. She is currently pursuing an executive Masters in Business Administration at the University of Oxford.

Life:

Born into a multicultural family, with an Irish- and Swedish-American mother and an Indian-Indonesian father, Marissa has lived over half of her life in Indonesia, where she currently resides with her husband Jared

LINKS 

• LinkedIn 

President | Know Your Strengths

Phil is President of Know Your Strengths, a human resource consulting firm that guides clients and executive-level management through processes for talent discovery, training and people management. He is also a Certified DynaMetrics Professional (CDMP) with Professional DynaMetric Programs. CDMP is PDP’s highest attainable credential dealing with the recognition of human potential and its applications in human performance. He is credentialed by the Society for Human Resource Management as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR). 

In addition to a degree in business from Utah State University, Phil’s business skills and visionary talents have been shaped and developed through three decades of entrepreneurial business endeavors. His business experience includes management consulting, real estate development, brokerage, investments, mortgage banking, syndications and automotive dealerships. 

Phil’s competitive drive was forged in the fire of athletic competition. He was a two-time football All-American at Utah State University, an NFL first-round draft choice and a 9-year pro football veteran. Phil was inducted into the Sports Hall of Fame in the State of Utah in 1985. He’s a member of the Sports Hall of Fame at Utah State University and is also a member of USU’s All Century Team. In 2000, Phil was selected by Sports Illustrated as one of the Top Fifty Athletes of the Century from the State of Utah. In 2003-2007 and again in 2011, he was selected to the final list of candidates for the NCAA College Football Hall of Fame. 

Phil’s character and values are easily seen in his dedication to his family, his clients and his friends, as well as through his personal commitment to assist others. Phil and his wife Connie have been married for 43 years. They have two happily-married daughters and five grandchildren.

LINKS 

• Know Your Strengths

• The Chuck Knox Development Process

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investment banker

Michael Sipe has been helping leaders navigate challenging seasons, solve difficult problems, simplify and gain clarity on complex issues and achieve big goals in the face of tough odds for over 30 years.

He’s an ex-Army Ranger Captain, black belt martial artist, entrepreneur, mergers and acquisitions advisor, and Christian executive coach, who’s founded, bought and sold multiple companies for his own account. 

In his profession as an investment banker, he’s evaluated over 5,000 businesses in about every industry conceivable; and provided advisory services for approximately half a billion dollars in business sales involving hundreds of companies.

Since 2013, he’s also facilitated Christian CEO roundtable forums called 10x Catalyst Groups® in which members meet monthly in small peer groups to focus on spiritual growth as leaders, business excellence and marketplace ministry using the platform of their businesses and leadership influence.

He serves as an executive coach to a select group of extremely successful business leaders, many in the top 1% of income earners in the United States.

A consistent theme in his life and in that of his clients is the quest for an abundant life of significance and meaning. He, and they, desire not only a full, properly ordered and well-balanced life, but more importantly, an integrated life that glorifies God; while leading with excellence in the marketplace as men and women of faith called to run exceptional businesses. His #1 Bestselling book The AVADA Principle is the fruit of that quest.

10x Catalyst Group® Certified Facilitator opportunities are available across the nation for men and women who wish to lead Christian peer groups from a proven platform as part of a network of other Christian coaches.

LINKS

• www.10xGroups.com

• www.CrossPointeCapital.com

• LinkedIn

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Executive Director | Made to Flourish

Matt Rusten serves as the executive director for Made to Flourish. Made to Flourish empowers pastors and their churches to integrate faith, work, and economic wisdom for the flourishing of their communities. To date, the network has grown to over 2300 member pastors and 24 active city networks. Through local city events, online trainings, free resources, and a relational network, pastors grow in understanding a rich theology of work and economics and learn how to translate these ideas in corporate worship gatherings, discipleship ministries, and outreach in the community. As this happens, congregants increasingly know how faith in Christ can be lived out where they spend most of their time at work. For more information, visit madetoflourish.org. 

He has served in churches in North Dakota, Chicago, Kansas City, and Madison, WI. Prior to seminary and pastoral work, Matt worked at Microsoft in Fargo, ND. 

Matt and his wife, Margi, have two children, Olivia and Owen. 

LINKS

• LinkedIn

• madetoflourish.org

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This article was originally published here by Christianity Today

— by Christianity Today

As a millennial Christian, Kathryn Freeman’s experience at work captures both the open doors and stubborn glass ceilings facing many professional women today. The director of public policy at a faith-based nonprofit in Dallas, Texas, Freeman describes herself as “a strong personality, meaning I am not shy about voicing my opinions.” She says her bosses, mostly older men, welcome this strength. Her gifts and ideas are encouraged and expressed in her role advocating on complex issues like criminal justice, gambling, and immigration.

But Freeman also says her singleness comes up a lot at work—and it didn’t at the secular nonprofit where she worked previously. “It comes from the idea that a woman’s highest calling is wife and mother,” Freeman says . “Even as your male coworkers seek to climb the ladder, you, single woman, should be keeping an eye out for a husband, not executive leadership.” She also notes that coworkers have told her to smile during presentations so as not to appear angry. “In more secular settings, I doubt this would be voiced out loud, given how strict most HR departments are about perceived harassment.”

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Dr. Les Parrott is a master communicator, having impacted people from all walks of life including executives, international government officials, professional athletes and college students. His charisma, humor and practical advice have placed him in high demand as a conference and seminar speaker. Les Parrott has spoken internationally to a variety of groups including corporations such as Johnson & Johnson, Price Waterhouse, the armed services, and associations of professional athletes. His breakneck schedule takes him across North America and around the world.

Dr. Parrott has been a guest on many radio shows and featured on national television including “CBS This Morning”, “Good Morning America”, “NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw” “Oprah,” “The View” and CNN. His work has been written about in newspapers such as USA Today and the New York Times and many magazines including Men’s Health, Family Circle, Redbook and Women’s Day.

Les Parrott III, Ph.D., is founder of RealRelationships.com and a Professor of Psychology at Seattle Pacific University. He is also co-creator, with his wife Leslie, of eHarmony Marriage.

Dr. Les Parrott is an award-winning author of more than a dozen best-selling books including High-Maintenance Relationships, The Control Freak, 3 Seconds, Becoming Soul Mates, Your Time Starved Marriage and Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts.

LINKS 

• Les and Leslie Website

• Your Time Starved Marriage

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