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Will Mancini emerged from the trenches of local church leadership to found Auxano, a first-of-kind consulting ministry that focuses on vision clarity. As a “clarity evangelist,” Will has served as vision architect for hundreds of churches across the country including the leading churches within Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Lutheran and Non-denominational settings. His clients include notable organizations like Leadership Network and Upward Unlimited and pastors like Chuck Swindoll and Max Lucado.Will’s style blends the best of three worlds: the process thinking from the discipline of engineering, the communications savvy as an ad agency executive, and the practical theology as a pastoral leader. His pastoral experience includes helping lead two different congregations to over 3,000 in weekend attendance in 10 years — Clear Creek Community Church and FaithBridge United Methodist Church. Will’s education includes a ThM in Pastoral Leadership from Dallas Theological Seminary and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Penn State. He is the author of Church Unique: How Missional Leaders Cast Vision, Capture Culture and Create Movement, a Leadership Network Publication, and of Building Leaders.

Dr. Bill Donahue, Ph.D., is a popular speaker, writer and coach in areas of leadership development, group life, and vision clarity. Bill has authored over a dozen books and resources including the best selling Leading Life-Changing Small Groups and Coaching Life-Changing Leaders (with Greg Bowman). A graduate of Princeton University, Bill holds a Ph.D. in Adult Learning from the University of North Texas. More recently he was Director of Leadership Development and Groups at the Willow Creek Association. Prior to that Bill worked for P&G and PNC Financial Corp. To contact Bill visit www.drbilldonahue.com.

Greg is the founding pastor of Seacoast Church, one of the early adopters of the multi-site model. Located in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, Seacoast has been recognized by various media as an innovative and influential thought leader in future strategies for church growth and development. Seacoast combines a unique approach to highly participatory worship with a heart for missional evangelism. Greg calls their weekends a "practical,spirit filled, but non-spooky, yet kind of mystical worship experience, done in multiple locations, very inexpensively." Seacoast currently has 29 weekend worship experiences in 13 separate locations.

Tony serves on the leadership team of West Ridge Church near Atlanta. He’s also a strategist, writer, speaker and consultant who helps churches get unstuck and have a bigger impact. More important, he has a passion for people. He’s all about helping people meet Jesus and take steps in their faith. For more than 10 years, Tony served on the senior leadership teams at NewSpring Church (Anderson, SC) and Granger Community Church (Granger, IN). With Tim Stevens, Tony has co-authored Simply Strategic Stuff, Simply Strategic Volunteers and Simply Strategic Growth–each of which offers valuable, practical solutions for different aspects of church ministry. His newest book, Killing Cockroaches (B&H Publishing), was released in 2009. Tony has also written several articles on staffing, technology, strategic planning and leadership published by organizations like Outreach Magazine, Catalyst and Pastors.com. Tony and his wife, Emily, live near Atlanta, Georgia with their four children–Kayla, Jacob, Abby and Brooke.

Lance has been called a Pastor's Pastor. He loves those who serve on the front lines of ministry and is committed to helping them stay healthy and "finish well". He is committed to the church and passionately believes in the transformational power of Jesus through the local church.

Lance's experience includes: over 25 years as a local church pastor, 20 years as a senior pastor, serving as an executive pastor at Saddleback Church, being one of the weekend teaching pastors at Saddleback Church, helping develop and lead the 40 Days of Purpose and 40 Days of Community campaigns, developing the training materials for these campaigns that have now been used around the world, writing and teaching several DVD small group curriculums, writing articles that have been published in various magazines, newletters and websites, teaching national and international conferences on topics such as Small Groups, Spiritual Formation, Preaching, Leadership, and Purpose Driven Church, consulting with churches in the U.S., Canada and Asia, providing Life Coaching for pastors, developing the content for the Live Like You Were Dying campaign extensive experience in missions and training pastors around the world in more than 15 countries.

Lance's broad spectrum of ministry experience, his strategic thinking gifts, and his passion for spiritual formation give him a unique ability to peer into the soul of a leader and the soul of an organization. Lance has been married to his wife, Connie, for 33 years. Connie loves pastors wives and has written a book about mentoring the next generation called That Makes Two of Us.