World Café

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.

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. Over the past eleven years, she and her husband have 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 17, a resident of Indianapolis, Indiana, and a senior at Pike High School. He serves as the Indiana District Governor of Key Club International, a program of Kiwanis International.In addition to supporting and building Key Clubs, Tre is involved in his school’s freshmen mentor program. He was named 2010-2011 Freshmen Mentor of the Year.

“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. Sharon 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 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 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.