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8:30
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Keynote
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Stephen Drury
Serves as a director and President of the Board of Directors Church Loan Fund since its inception. Since 2006, he has served as President of the UPCI Foundation and has also served as Director of Stewardship for UPCI since 2002. Steve serves as Director for Institutional Advancement at Urshan Graduate School of Theology.
Steve founded the E3 Conference in 2008, a successful event connecting entrepreneurs in the Apostolic Faith. He also is a founder of Life Springs, an investment group benefiting the UPCI Foundation.
Steve received a Bachelor of Theology degree from Apostolic Bible Institute.
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9:15
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Planning for Success
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Kenneth Stewart
Kenneth Stewart is the founder of Integrated Security Consultants (ISC) based in Tampa, FL and servicing Florida and select customers nationally. ISC provided Intelligent IP Video solutions for 3 Super Bowls for the NFL and access control for Walt Disney World. ISC installed the city wide camera system for the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Tampa and also provides all electronic security for Coca-Cola in Florida with over 20 locations and 5,000 employees
Kenneth is the founding Pastor of Tabernacle of Hope in Downtown Tampa a community focused ministry with an active computer lab and food and clothes pantry. Kenneth currently serves the UPCI as the Director of Promotions for North American Missions (NAM) and has previously served as Florida NAM Director for 8 years and on the General and Executive Board of the UPCI.
Kenneth holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Theology from Christian Life College in Stockton, CA
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10:00
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Flipping Real Estate
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Melanie Claborn
Melanie is a graduate of Stockton Bible College (1987), and Western Governor’s University in 2012 with a BA in Education.
She has completed over 100 renovations of various levels and has sold over 200 properties in the last 8 years, while raising children and caring for her elderly father.
She owns six rental properties, and she is the general contractor on three to five renovations at a time. She is a licensed real estate agent, as well as an investor. She has ten private cash investors on her team, and they benefit from the relationship with a growing IRA.
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10:45
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Creating A Sales Culture
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David Saucer
David is an independent financial professional committed to helping his clients in retirement and insurance.
Over the years, David has helped hundreds of his clients implement plans in the areas of Insurance, Investments and Retirement Planning. As an independent advisor, his holistic approach allows him to utilize the services of elder law attorneys, CPAs and other professionals.
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Chloe Saucer Fierge
Chloe put together a team with over 70 years of experience in various industries to create C.Saucy, a company that offers superior scrub skirt sets that meets the needs of Apostolics in the medical field.
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11:30
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LUNCH – Ministry & Entrepreneurism
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David McCurrach
David works as a Senior Director of Cloud Technical Pre-Sales for Americas for Adobe, a fortune 100 Company.
He has twenty years of experience in Customer Relationship Management (CRM), eCommerce, Marketing Automation, and other digital marketing solutions.
Oh, by the way, he pastors Hope Fellowship in in Florissant MO, the second church he started!
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12:30pm
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Maximizing Human Potential
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Paul Green
Paul is an Assistant Professor of Management at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas, Austin. He studies the ways in which our connections at work can enable, or sometimes constrain, important individual and organizational outcomes like engagement, fulfillment, motivation and performance, and individual development.
Paul studied, and received a Doctorate in Business Administration in Management from Harvard Business School. He has won numerous awards for both his teaching and research, including: the 2012 Harvard Business Review/McKinsey M-Prize for his work advancing Self-Management and the 2017 Wyss Award for Excellence in Doctoral Research.
His research has been featured in publications such as Forbes, Financial Times, the Harvard Business Review, the Wall Street Journal and Fast Company.
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1:15pm
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$$$ - Venture, Angel, Bank
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Ryan O’Neill
Ryan founded Twisted Willow Design in St. Louis, Missouri where he created Curate, an event software platform that helps manage all the moving pieces.
Ryan the lead contributor to The Business Of Events blog that shares all the details of how he and his wife started a floral shop and grew it into a successful lifestyle business.
In his journey, he as borrowed from banks, benefited from Angel Investors (Curate was an early participant with LifeSprings) and been down the arduous road with Venture Capitalists.
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2:00pm
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Creating a Business
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Zim Flores
In 2013, she started Travel Noire, an award-winning boutique travel company. By the time the brand was acquired in 2017, it reached 2MM travelers each month and sold out of every product it brought to market, building a legion of loyal followers and customers along the way.
This Forbes 30 under 30 awardee has been featured in the New York Times, TIME, CBS This Morning, ELLE, The Nation, Essence, NPR, among others and was awarded by Glamour Magazine as one of 25 Young Women Changing the World and she was hand selected by Oprah for SuperSoul 100!
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3:00pm
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Managing Your Brand
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Taylor Kovar
Taylor is the CEO of Kovar Wealth Management, a boutique firm that provides fee-based advice. His passion in life is to make the world a better place by teaching others how they can live a fulfilled life, regardless of their current position or past experiences.
He is one of Investopedia’s Top 100 Advisor. Cohost of The Millionaire Marriage Podcast. Half of The Money Couple (the lame half 😊). Speaker. Author.
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3:45
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Digital Marketing
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Jacob Bruce
Jacob is the CEO at Underdog Marketing Group, a newly founded marketing agency for the underdogs big and small.
Every brand has stories to tell—stories that will not only engage, inform, surprise, delight, and impact their audience, but that will also deliver on measurable business goals. He provides a conduit between brand and consumer.
Jacob’s specialties include digital media, consumer behavior, brand awareness, and social media management.
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4:30
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Closing Session
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Jason Staten
Yes, Pastor, NAYC Speaker and all around good guy. BUT
As a John Maxwell certified leadership trainer, Jason has developed a leadership curriculum to help you raise the bar to new heights. His passion is helping organizations, teams and individuals awaken to their greater potential. His teaching and instruction promises to awaken the champion within!
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