Alec Hill is president emeritus of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship USA. He has also served as dean of the School of Business and Economics at Seattle Pacific University and as a Regional Director for World Relief. He consults, mentors rising leaders, teaches at Regent College (Canada), and is the author of two books – one focusing on business ethics and the other on surviving cancer. He lives with his wife, Mary, in the Seattle area and enjoys camping, reading, and the hapless Seattle Mariners.

Dr. JoAnn Flett is the Executive Director of the Center for Faithful Business at Seattle Pacific University. JoAnn is a frequent speaker, network collaborator and organizational consultant teasing out the intersection of organizational activities that promote flourishing. JoAnn was a 2020 Fulbright Teaching Scholar and 2024 Fulbright Specialist to Trinidad and Tobago. Her research interests include Entrepreneurship, Certified B-Corps, Leadership, Team Cohesion, Faith and Work integration and Organizational Development. She has served on numerous nonprofit boards including the Accord Network, Broad Street Ministry, Everence Financial, and Geneva Global – Capital for Good. She has advised The Ormond Center at Duke University- Christian Enterprise Solutions to Poverty, and the Coalition for Christian Social Innovation. JoAnn currently serves on World Relief’s board and advises the Entrepreneurship Hub in Trinidad and Tobago.

Dr. Jessica Taylor is the CEO and Founder of Leadership Training Initiative, a boutique leadership development consulting firm specializing in inclusive and equitable strategy. She is passionate about empowering others to transform their organizations and leadership legacy. She credits this passion to her deep faith. Known for her empathy, pragmatism, and humor, Jessica equips and builds organizations where everyone can courageously be themselves without bias, discrimination, or barriers determining their success. With a lifetime of perspective as a biracial, woman of color, years of executive experience, and a background in human development, Jessica coaches executive leaders and guides organizations through equitable leadership strategies through nuanced and comprehensive methods centered around empathy and holistic practice. She currently serves as the President of Multnomah University, in Oregon and has previously worked as the Executive Director of Youth For Christ Portland. She is also an ordained pastor in the Church of God and holds a PhD in Christian Counseling and a Master of Arts in Human Services.

Dr. J. Derek McNeil was named the fourth president of The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology in 2019. Since joining the leadership team at The Seattle School in 2010 as Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs, Dr. McNeil has been integral to the school’s achievement of regional accreditation, the reimagining of our common curriculum, and securing millions in grant funding. Dr. McNeil has a PhD in Counseling Psychology from Northwestern University and an MDiv from Fuller Theological Seminary. Prior to his tenure at The Seattle School, Dr. McNeil served as faculty in the PsyD program at Wheaton College Graduate School for over 15 years. Dr. McNeil has worked as a clinician in private practice, a diversity advisor, an organizational consultant, and an administrator. His research, writing, and speaking have focused on issues of ethnic and racial socialization, the role of forgiveness in peacemaking, the identity development of African-American males, leadership in living systems, and resilience. He has written chapters in The Black Family: Past, Present, and Future (1991), Men to Men: Voices of African American Males (1996), Why Psychology Needs Theology (2005), This Side of Heaven: Race Ethnicity and Christian Faith (2007), Reluctant Integration (2010), and Roadmap to Reconciliation: Moving Communities into Unity, Wholeness and Justice (2016). His teaching has also included coursework on Social, Cultural, and Spiritual Foundations of Mental Health; Family Systems Therapy; Group Theory; Therapy; and Leadership.