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MC Speaker Bios

Mitch Matthews

Mitch Matthews is the creator of the DREAM THINK DO podcast. He’s also a success coach, speaker and serial entrepreneur.

His DREAM THINK DO podcast helps people to dream bigger, think better, and do more of what they were created to do. It’s been rated #1 by the Huffington Post and is in top 0.5% of all podcasts.

Plus, as a speaker and elite success coach, he’s spent the last twenty years helping organizations like NIKE, United Airlines, NASA and Disney. Mitch has also built an online life coach certification and business training program that has helped thousands of life and success coaches from around the world.

Mitch is very open about his faith and will often talk about how prayer guides his business decisions, marketing strategies and content creation.

In fact, he has a second podcast for coaches, speakers and content creators called “Encouraging the Encouragers.” Mitch is quick to point out the genesis of that podcast came to him from a powerful prayer experience in the Oregon mountains.

Mitch is a husband to his amazing bride, a dad to their two incredible sons and proudly lives a highly-caffeinated lifestyle in Des Moines.

Jamie Winship

Jamie has decades of experience bringing peaceful solutions to some of the world’s highest conflict areas.

Starting with a distinguished career in law enforcement in the metro Washington, DC area, his unconventional efforts to bring about societal and racial reconciliation led him to Indonesia, Jordan, Iraq, Palestine, Israel, and back to the US. In recent years, Jamie has worked with leaders in a variety of sectors, from police departments to pro football teams to churches and other faith-based organizations.

Jamie is the author of the Energy series and “Living Fearless: Exchanging The Lies Of The World For The Liberating Truth Of God”. He loves to help people hear from God and live fearlessly in their true identity.

Jonathan Vossler

Jonathan Vossler is the CEO and part-owner of Vossler Media Group, a Creative, Production, and Post-production studio in the Seattle region. With 23 years of experience in video production, encompassing editing, animation, directing, producing, executive producing, and executive management, there are not many aspects of the creative content space that Jonathan has not encountered. The intersection of creativity and technology is where you will find him, optimizing everything possible for the ultimate storytelling experience.

Jonathan was born and raised in Seattle, Washington, and continues to reside there to this day with his wife, Lisa. He is in business with both his older brothers, Nathanael and Michael Vossler. Faith and business have been vital parts of their everyday existence since the earliest days of the company. They recognize that they cannot fulfill their calling alone and have adopted an approach to business where they regularly seek and ask God for direction and guidance in their journey.”We believe we are called to the marketplace for such a time as this. And it is our heart’s mission to be a part of building the Kingdom of God through media, globally.”

Derek Harden

Derek is a Pathblazer. Like Caleb from the Old Testament, he doesn’t let unchartered territory intimidate, but rather enjoys forging new paths and making new trails for people to traverse in the Kingdom of God.

Derek is originally from the hills of southeastern Ohio. He has a degree in mechanical engineering from The Ohio State University, where he also played football. Upon graduation, he entered the corporate world where he would work for eight years before stepping into full time ministry.

He is now the lead pastor of Christ Fellowship Church in Kingsport, Tennessee, where he lives with his wife, Kate, and three children.

Derek delights in the presence of God, and wants nothing more than for others to do the same.

Kim Wheeler

Kim Wheeler is the Adult Ministry Director at Christ Fellowship Church. Before taking a full-time position at Christ Fellowship, she completed a 20 year career as a high school English teacher. She is a life-long resident of Kingsport and a life-long lover of Jesus.

For the past 28 years she has been married to Jason, who truly is her best friend, and they have 2 young adult kids – Abbey & Creed.

Kim is deeply in love with the voice of God and her passion is encouraging others in developing a real, meaningful relationship with Him – a relationship that impacts the Kingdom and brings heaven to earth.

Session Leader Bios

Leon Liu

Leon Liu is an accomplished operations executive and management consultant with over 20 years of experience driving business transformation, operational excellence, and shareholder value creation for global corporations, private equity portfolio companies, and technology startups.

He currently serves as a Principal Consultant, where he partners with clients to implement strategies focused on cultural transformation, lean manufacturing, supply chain improvements, and post-merger integration. Leon has delivered millions in cost savings and productivity improvements for organizations across industries including aviation, manufacturing, and mining.

Leon has held many senior operations leadership roles where he successfully turned around business units, integrated merged companies, and drove enterprise growth, particularly through times of crisis.

Leon is a certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt and passionate about continuous improvement by facilitating teams. He is known for his ability to quickly diagnose operational bottlenecks and rally cross-functional teams to execute solutions focused on sustainable improvement.

He holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Georgia Tech. Leon resides in California where he enjoys mentoring students and advising startups on scaling with excellence.

Jeff Wagoner

Jeff spent his first business years in the field operations, marketing and continuous improvement prior to founding his consulting business. During his 25-plus year career he has held numerous key management positions, including General Manager, Sales/Marketing Director, Vice President New Business Development, Managing Director, and Continuous Improvement Director.

As an Improvement Manager and Coach, Jeff has facilitated teams in operational excellence and leadership effectiveness at many companies including: Union Carbide, Praxair, Pratt & Whitney, United Airlines, McDonald’s, Delta Airlines, Exide, Chemtura, Compass Minerals, Songwon and IKO. The events covered a full range of continuous improvement from production flow line, senior management practices, and business process changes to a total redesign of the business. He attributes a large part of his personal growth and success in the business world to his experience from a line operator on the shop floor to executive management.

Paul Nadeau

Paul worked with Deloitte Consulting as a Principal – supporting clients all over the
world while also serving as an US Air Force Reserve officer. His career elevated to a
place where he managed many other partners, but he lost touch with customers he
loved engaging. A Life Plan retreat in 2008 made it clear to him that working alongside leaders to help them find more successful enterprises and lives is what he loved most and where he could make his highest contribution. He took early retirement from Deloitte and now applies his extensive consulting knowledge to leaders and businesses of all sizes through SummitTrek where he has been a partner for over a decade. He is especially gifted at solving complex problems and helping others find a clear path forward to success in their personal, professional, and spiritual lives. He operates with a boundless confidence and infectious enthusiasm. He is a man of deep faith with a marriage of 40 years and three grown sons. He is an avid motorcyclist, loves woodworking, travel, and spending time working on his ranch west of San Antonio.

Brian Schroller

After twenty-five years in investment banking as an economist and fixed income
manager over billions in assets, Brian realized that he more enjoyed working alongside individual leaders and helping them find greater success in their personal, professional, and spiritual lives. A Life Plan retreat in 2009 made it clear that he was to not step into the Chief Financial Officer role as the next step in his banking career, but instead begin to come alongside small business owners to help them find greater success. He and Paul have been partners in SummitTrek for over a decade. Brian enjoys curating transformational experiences for their clients through merging he and Paul’s vast experience, the best and brightest ideas of thought leaders, and a practical understanding of what living in God’s kingdom is like. He creates the bulk of SummitTrek’s canon of leadership and business curriculum. He loves Jeeping, spending time with his wife of 34 years, 6 children, and many grandchildren. He enjoys good food and is an avid movie buff (we have over 300 redemptive movie reviews on SummitTrek’s coaching site!)

Hessel Baker

Hessel Baker is the Founder and CEO of Uplift Georgia and Dwell Communities.

Hessel has spent his career helping provide marginalized families with affordable housing in safe, thriving communities where spiritual transformation is the metric of success.

Uplift Georgia’s primary aim is to enhance the quality-of-life experiences of residents in affordable housing communities, including senior living communities, by fostering a sense of community and building social connections among neighbors through educational, enriching, and engaging opportunities. We believe that these shared experiences and increased neighbor interactions will ultimately lead to stronger social bonds, greater trust, and a heightened willingness to support and invest in their community. Uplift Georgia also seeks to enhance access to valuable resources within the community while simultaneously facilitating connections with external resources through relationships forged between residents and supportive organizations.

Tiffany Fykes

Tiffany Fykes began her professional work by producing coverage for Reuters News of the Bush/Gore election in 2000.  Just as that turned into a bigger deal than anyone could have imagined…so started her career.  She spent the next 7 years in the “edu-tainment” genre of video production producing teaching pieces and documentaries to inspire new ways of thinking.  Ultimately, her goal was to partner with her husband Joshua in a family business and in 2008 she joined his residential architecture company to lead the client experience and in 2009 she led the expansion of their brand into real estate services.  Despite the real estate crisis, within 4 years Tiffany built a million dollar revenue company, was recognized as one of the top agents in the country, had doubled the size of her family, and was on a path to completely lose her identity.  She wrestled for the next decade with the right version of success, surrender and striving.

Today Tiffany is an experience creator putting her giftings to work as: Co-Founder of Her Best Life LLC (a national company that supports female business leaders to leave no part of themselves behind), Founder of FYKES Realty Group LLC (out of Nashville, TN that helps agents lead their clients to have fun during the stresses of selling and buying a home), Mom to two teenage boys (currently transitioning from homeschool to middle school) and Speaker (facilitating conversations that inspire others to believe in impossible dreams).

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