2012 Annual Conference
Featured Presenters
The conference will feature several plenary sessions with renowned speakers.
Judy O'Bannon
Judy O’Bannon was First Lady of Indiana from 1997 until her husband, Governor Frank O’Bannon, died in 2003. As First Lady, she created and led the Hoosier Millennium and Indiana 2016 initiatives with nearly 200 participating communities, encouraging Hoosiers to use the Millennium year and the state’s bicentennial as opportunities to spur community involvement in order to strengthen Indiana. Seeing the Governor’s Residence as the “State’s living room,” she made it a gathering place for Hoosiers to share ideas and talents, celebrate achievements, and plan for the future. Judy graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Indiana University with a bachelor’s degree in social work. Selected as a Rockefeller Theological Scholar, she was the first woman to attend the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. She holds nine honorary doctorates. As host and producer of the WFYI-TV public television series Communities Building Community, Judy brings attention to the many ways Hoosiers foster community life in Indiana. The series has won critical acclaim, including the Emmy award for public affairs programming in 2005 and 2007. Her new television series, Judy O’Bannon’s Foreign Exchange, looks at the commonality of community development efforts around the world. Judy is chairman of The O’Bannon Publishing Company, which publishes the award-winning Corydon Democrat and Clarion newspapers. She serves on numerous community boards and commissions.
Mike Mulcahy, Shannon
Sedgwick Davis
“Bridgeway Capital Management and the Bridgeway Foundation”
Mike Mulcahy is President and CCO for Bridgeway Capital Management and President for Bridgeway Funds. He has worked for Bridgeway since 2002. Prior to Bridgeway, he held various positions with McKinsey & Company and Compaq/HP. Mr. Mulcahy graduated magna cum laude from Texas A&M University with a degree in Economics and Chemistry and earned an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business. In 2009, Bridgeway was named by Entrepreneur Magazine and the Great Place to Work Institute as the #4 Best Small/Medium Workplace in the U.S. Bridgeway Capital Management funds the Bridgeway Foundation, which focuses on ending genocide in Africa and ultimately on the planet. Shannon Sedgwick Davis is the foundation Director. She is an attorney and a well-known strategist engaged in promoting peace and ending human atrocities across the globe. She previously served as Vice-President of Geneva Global and Director of Public Affairs at International Justice Mission. She is currently a board member for several organizations within the United States and abroad, including The Elders, Humanity United, and Ben Affleck’s Eastern Congo Initiative.
Consuelo Kickbusch
Consuelo Castillo Kickbusch is a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army, and founder & President of Educational Achievement Services, Inc. She was born and raised along the border in a small barrio in Laredo, Texas, where she faced the challenges of poverty, discrimination, and illiteracy. She graduated from Hardin Simmons University and entered the U.S. Army as an officer, serving for two decades. While in the military, she broke barriers and set records to become the highest ranking Hispanic woman in the Combat Support Field of the U.S. Army. Since 1996, Consuelo has dedicated her life to empowering a new generation of leaders. She has worked with over one million children and their parents across the United States through Educational Achievement Services, Inc. (EAS), her human development company.
Kevin Trapani
Kevin Trapani is President & CEO of the Redwoods Group, a provider of property/casualty insurance underwriting, risk management and claims adjusting services for YMCAs, Jewish CommunityCenters, and resident camps around the nation. He is also president of The Redwoods Group Foundation. Kevin graduated from Duke University with a BA in political science. He was executive vice president of Burlington Insurance Group, senior vice president and chief underwriting officer of Coregis Insurance Group, and held senior leadership positions at Great American Insurance Companies and the Chubb Group of Insurance Companies before forming the Redwoods Group in 1997. The mission of the Redwoods Group is to improve the quality of life in the communities the company serves. Trapani is a regular speaker on sustainability and corporate social responsibility at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, and is a member of the Advisory Committee for Duke University’s Center for Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship that promotes the entrepreneurial pursuit of social impact through business. He is currently participating in a year-long Latino Initiatives study group for the University of North Carolina’s Center for International Understanding to help Triangle leaders better serve the needs of Mexican immigrants.
Barbara Hollace, Steve Thiry, Tre Sanders
“My Personal Servant Leadership Journey"
Barbara Hollace is an author and editor in Spokane, Washington. She received her bachelor’s degree in Business Administration at Western Washington University. After managing a small business, she returned to law school and earned her J.D. from Gonzaga University. For over eleven years, she and her husband transformed the lives of many homeless and low-income people while managing a homeless shelter and subsequently an apartment community, where they lived and worked in the heart of the city. Steve Thiry is a Captain with the Fond du Lac Police Department in Wisconsin, where he has worked for 19 years. For the past three years, he has served as Executive Officer to the Chief of Police. As a result of conversations with the Chief of Police and through the support of the Sophia Foundation, Captain Thiry has helped the Police Department on its servant leadership journey during the past two and a half years. The journey has included three in-service training programs that linked emotional survival for law enforcement with servant leadership, identified real-life examples of servant leadership, discussed individual values, and identified new departmental values to include respect for others, teamwork, and integrity. Tre Sanders is a senior at Pike High School in Indianapolis, where he is active in school activities. He served as a Key Club Lieutenant Governor and currently serves as Governor for the Indiana District of Key Club International. The major influence in Tre’s life is his grandmother Eleanor Walker, who adopted Tre and raised him as well as five of her own children and four of her grandchildren. Another major influence in Tre’s life is the Key Leader Program, a servant leadership character-building program for high school students sponsored by Kiwanis International. Tre’s goals for the future include attending college and law school, joining the Peace Corps, and working to end childhood hunger in America.
Rebecca Nordeman
The World Café will be facilitated by Rebecca Braden Nordeman. Rebecca is President of Cornerstone International, which specializes in developing and coaching leaders. Over the past twenty years, she has worked in fifteen countries in Europe, Asia, North and South America, and Africa. Her clients have included Compaq, Compassion International, General Electric, Kelly Services, Lucent Technologies, McClelland Air Force Base, MCI Worldcom, Sun Microsystems, and the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. Rebecca is a Greenleaf Seminar presenter.
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