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Speaker | Author | Consultant

Dr. K. Shelette Stewart has over 20 years of leadership experience as a business practitioner and academician with leading organizations including Harvard Business School, The Coca-Cola Company, and BellSouth / AT&T in strategic business planning, business development, and marketing. She is a Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Program Specialist and holds a Doctorate in Business Administration. A graduate of Harvard University, Dr. Stewart is the founder and principal of Stewart Consulting, LLC, a strategic planning firm, launched in 2007, serving companies, non-profits, and higher education institutions with consulting and programming so that they pivot and thrive during unprecedented times. Dr. Stewart is also the author of the award-winning book, Revelations in Business: Connecting Your Business Plan with God’s Purpose and Plan for Your Life© which has been formally endorsed by several industry leaders including Dan Cathy, Chairman and CEO of Chick-fil-A. A highly sought-after international speaker, Dr. Stewart has served as the keynote speaker for many leading organizations including: Harvard Business School, Texas Instruments, The Coca-Cola Company, Women’s Foodservice Forum, and Yunnan University in China. She served as the 2020 Commencement Speaker for Judson University and has also appeared as a guest on Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN), Daystar Television Network – Marcus; Joni Lamb Show, and a host of other TV and podcast programs. Dr. Stewart’s board memberships include the LEAD Program, New Hope and Compassion for China (NHC), the Warren Holyfield Boys; Girls Club, and Morehouse School of Medicine – School of Public Health Visiting Committee. She is the recipient of The YWCA of Greater Atlanta; The Coca-Cola Company Salute to Women of Achievement Award and is available for consulting and speaking engagements nationally and globally. To learn more, please visit: shelettestewart.com.

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• Efosa’s Research

Senior Research Fellow | Global Prosperity

Efosa Ojomo leads the Global Prosperity research group at the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, a think tank based in Boston and Silicon Valley. In January, 2019, Ojomo and late Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen published The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty. In a Wall Street Journal review of The Prosperity Paradox, Rupert Darwall writes: “The authors return the entrepreneur and innovation to the center stage of economic development and prosperity.”

Ojomo’s work has been published and covered by the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, the Guardian, Quartz, Forbes, Fortune, The World Bank, NPR and several other media outlets. He speaks regularly on innovation and has presented his work at TED, the Aspen Ideas Festival, the World Bank, Harvard, Yale, Oxford and at several other conferences and institutions.

Ojomo graduated from Vanderbilt University with a degree in computer engineering and got his MBA from Harvard Business School.

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• David Weekley Homes

Chairman | David Weekley Homes

In 1976, 23-year-old David Weekley started his own home building company. Now more than 40 years later, the company has sold more than 100,000 homes and expanded to 19 cities across the nation.

As a result of his progressive management methodologies where people are the primary focus of the organization, the company has been named to FORTUNE “100 Best Companies to Work For®” list 15 times. David has also received recognition for his leadership talents and many community outreach efforts in addition to building innovative, high-quality homes.

David earned degrees in Economics and Geology from San Antonio’s Trinity University. He and his wife, Bonnie, have three children and eight grandchildren.

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Bio:

David Wills is passionate about generosity and eternity, so he invests his time helping others lay-up treasure in heaven and taking hold of life that is truly life. David wears several hats within the NCF organization including President Emeritus and National Relationship Manager. David is the co-author of two books, Investing in God’s Business and Family.Money. He earned a BBA in Finance and Entrepreneurship from Baylor University, a JD from Baylor Law School and completed post-graduate work at Dallas Theological Seminary and Harvard’s Kennedy School.

David serves on numerous boards, including Generous Giving (of which he is also a co-founder), Impact Foundation, Global Generosity, Hope for the Heart, ProVision Foundation, The River Foundation, Trust Bridge Global Foundation, iDonate and the Advisory Board of Barnhart Crane and Rigging in Memphis, TN. He also works in the area of advocacy, serving on the Strategy Board for the Alliance for Charitable Reform (ACR) and as a consultant for the Maclellan Foundation in Chattanooga, TN.

Life:

Texas natives, David and his wife Chris have been married for 25 years and live on a tiny ranch just outside Waco, Texas with some of their seven children. (4 of them are currently teenagers!)

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Founder and President | Hilltop Residential

Mr. Wylie and has been in the multifamily investment business since 2000, having received national recognition for his performance in the apartment market across Texas and the United States. During his 19 years in the industry, Mr. Wylie has been involved in over $15 billion of multifamily transactions serving as Vice Chairman at Newmark Knight Frank (FKA Apartment Realty Advisors).

While serving as Vice Chairman in the ARA/NKF Houston office, David was responsible for the recruitment, growth, and development of the 40 people on the ARA Multifamily Investment Sales Team, the ARA Land Team, and the ARA Capital Markets Team. Under his leadership, the ARA/NKF Team grew from $300 million in multifamily sales in the early 2000’s, to nearly $4 billion in sales and capital markets in 2018.
Mr. Wylie’s deep relationships in the industry, as well as his extensive experience in identifying investment opportunities, are integral pieces to the Hilltop team.

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Ambassador’s Impact Network

Bio:

Dean is the founding partner and Chief Executive Officer of Macfarlan Capital Partners. With over 40 years of industry experience in the development, acquisition and sale of investment properties exceeding the $1 billion mark in value, he provides the vision, strategic guidance and entrepreneurial leadership to their company.

Dean started his career at Hank Dickerson and Company, a major Dallas real estate brokerage firm, where he learned the commercial brokerage business from the ground up. After four years with Dickerson, he took $250,000 in personal savings and a vision: not to be the biggest, but to be the best, real estate investment company in the region and established DDM Investments in 1984. His national reputation has been developed based on three guiding principles: providing investor partners and clients with superior investments based on quality real estate, cultivating an efficient investment process, and a developing a team that is committed to integrity.

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