Andy Crouch is partner for theology and culture at Praxis, a venture-building ecosystem advancing redemptive entrepreneurship. His writing explores faith, culture, and the image of God in the domains of technology, power, leadership, and the arts. He is the author of five books (plus another with his daughter, Amy Crouch): The Life We're Looking For: Reclaiming Relationship in a Technological World, The Tech-Wise Family: Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in Its Proper Place, Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing, Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power, and Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling.

Andy serves on the governing board of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. For more than ten years he was an editor and producer at Christianity Today, including serving as executive editor from 2012 to 2016. He served the John Templeton Foundation in 2017 as senior strategist for communication. His work and writing have been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time, and several editions of Best Christian Writing and Best Spiritual Writing—and, most importantly, received a shout-out in Lecrae's 2014 single "Non-Fiction."

From 1998 to 2003, Andy was the editor-in-chief of re:generation quarterly, a magazine for an emerging generation of culturally creative Christians. For ten years he was a campus minister with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at Harvard University. He studied classics at Cornell University and received an M.Div. summa cum laude from Boston University School of Theology. A classically trained musician who draws on pop, folk, rock, jazz, and gospel, he has led musical worship for congregations of 5 to 20,000. He and his wife, Catherine, raised two children and live in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.

Cliff Goins IV has been fascinated with the “big idea” of creating generational wealth via entrepreneurship since his early thirties. He is known for his insights, execution, and innovation. 1517 Media will release Minding the Wealth Gap, his book on closing the U.S. racial wealth gap, in early 2025.

Today, Cliff is co-founder and COO of Scaleup, a startup that came out of Amazon, which helps small- and medium-sized businesses scale into large enterprises. Passionate about entrepreneurship, Cliff knows growing a business is hard and takes heart, smarts, luck, and lots of supporting mechanisms. Before Amazon, Cliff held several roles at Northern Trust Asset Management including COO of an early stage fintech acquisition, head of strategy for the $1 billion business unit, and CAO of a $300 million division. Before Northern, he was an executive in finance and operations for VSA Partners, a rapidly growing private equity backed marketing services firm.

Prior to VSA, as an investment professional, he reviewed over 200 privately-held business opportunities and sat on the board as an observer of companies ranging from $20 million to $100 million in revenues. Cliff serves as vice chair of the investment committee for FAMU Foundation, Inc. and is former elder board chair of Soul City Church, a fast-growing church in the West Loop of Chicago. He holds an MBA in finance and strategy from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a B.S. in accounting from Florida A&M University.

When he’s not working you can find him feeding his tennis obsession—playing it, watching it, captaining it—or spending time and traveling with his wife and two beautiful, smart, and sporty daughters.

Sheeba Philip is a catalytic leader who equips founders, CEOs, and organizations that make the world a better place. She draws on 25 years of building purpose-driven startup, mid-size, and Fortune 50 brands spanning multiple industries and sectors.

As a senior executive with Mondelez International, Sheeba led multi-million dollar businesses including stewarding the World’s #1 Cookie, Oreo, across 100 countries.  Sheeba also served as an executive member of the turnaround team for JCPenney.  As the head of brand marketing and communications, she led the reinvention of JCPenney’s digital platforms, helping modernize one of America’s most iconic retailers.

Sheeba leveraged her corporate experience to impact non-profits and social ventures. She led the marketing and communications efforts for International Justice Mission, the largest anti-human trafficking NGO in the world.  Sheeba was recently the CEO of Akola, a luxury jewelry brand and retail start-up that provides living wage employment for marginalized women in Eastern Africa.  She shepherded the business in the US and Uganda during the height of the pandemic, helping keep 200 women in Uganda employed. Under her leadership, Akola was named a top sustainable jewelry brand by Vogue in 2020.  She led the restructuring of the company to drive long-term sustainability and local empowerment, with the company and operations now fully based in Uganda.

Sheeba is currently leading a strategic advisory practice that supports founders and CEOs in developing the growth and transformational agenda for purpose-driven brands, social-impact ventures, and non-profit organizations. Her clients have cut across numerous industries and sectors including financial services, impact investing, retail, consumer, education, and international development.

She is a board member for Redeemer City to City, a global faith-based organization founded by Tim Keller and Lion’s Den DFW, an organization bringing together faith-driven investors and entrepreneurs. She is an advisor for the Praxis Redemptive Venture Accelerator and a mentor for  entrepreneurs. She regularly speaks on the principles of Christ-centered leadership. Sheeba’s work has been recognized by outlets such as Forbes, Entrepreneur, and Vogue. She was featured on InStyle Magazine’s 2021 list of “50 Women Making The World A Better Place”. Sheeba holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Virginia and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Cheryl Bachelder is a passionate, purpose-led business leader -- the former CEO of Popeyes® Louisiana Kitchen, Inc. From 2007 to 2017, she led the transformation of a tired brand and discouraged organization into a top-performing quick service restaurant chain. The story of the Popeyes success is chronicled in her book Dare to Serve: How to drive superior results by serving others. Cheryl’s earlier career included brand leadership roles at Yum Brands, Domino’s Pizza, RJR Nabisco, The Gillette Company and Procter & Gamble.

Today Cheryl’s aim is to encourage and invest in senior leaders, helping them to understand and implement Dare to Serve leadership in for-profit and non-profit workplaces.

Cheryl serves as a director and chair of the compensation committee at US Foods Holding Corp (USFD). She is currently the lead independent director at Chick-fil-A, Inc. She is a board member at Workmatters, a ministry that equips Christian leaders to integrate their faith with work. She is a member of CEO Forum, an organization of Christian CEOs that mentor senior executives as they live out their faith in the marketplace. She advises several ministries that develop future Christian leaders: Spring Hill Camps, Crossroad Farms, and Intervarsity’s Believers in Business.

Cheryl holds Bachelor and Masters of Business Administration degrees from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. She is married 42 years to Chris Bachelder and they have three grown daughters, two terrific son-in-laws, and five handsome grandsons. Cheryl and Chris reside in Pinehurst, NC and attend Christ Community Church. They are avid learners, fans of the classical education movement, and can always be found reading a good book!

Mark Washington supports over a dozen MBA staff and multiple national and international projects, including the Believers in Business Conference as advisor. Additionally, he has served as campus staff for nine years at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago. Formerly, he was an Associate Dean at North Park Theological Seminary. He is ordained in The Evangelical Covenant Church. At North Park, Mark earned a special dual degree: MA in Theological Studies and MBA. Prior to graduate studies, Mark was a counselor to severely emotionally disturbed teenage gang boys. During graduate school, he founded a microenterprise organization in Gary, IN, before he knew that the term “microenterprise” existed. He enjoys travel, cultures, ping pong, and board games (and doesn’t mind losing Settlers of Catan to his children). Mark is pursuing a Doctor of Ministry in Faith, Work, Economics and Vocation at Fuller Theological Seminary.