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Mary Scifres
Principal Consultant and Co-Founder

Mary J. Scifres is an internationally-recognized speaker, teacher & author, bringing both inspiration & expertise for 21st century leadership. With her innate understanding of cultural shifts, Mary strategically guides audiences and organizations to recognize opportunities, inspiring people to embrace those opportunities for engaging new people and creating new products and programs. Teaching the tools, techniques, and attitudes for expanding these possibilities, Mary will help your team transform your potential into reality.

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As a motivational speaker, Mary inspires hope with her enthusiasm, her unwavering faith in people, and her undaunted confidence in the future. Mary ignites creativity from the stage as well as the boardroom. With an engaging, relational style, Mary helps audiences recognize and explore the myriad possibilities that change and cultural shifts present for each person and organization. Her passion is contagious, as is her vision of change as a friendly companion—a companion that is constantly with us and pregnant with possibilities.

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As an expert in generational theory with a gift for diagnosing systemic troubles, Mary works with management teams to bridge the generational gap between older, more experienced leaders, and younger, emerging leaders. In so doing, Mary unleashes the innovative potential of leaders, both old and young, and strengthens your team, and your company by forming strong bonds of community and cooperation.

Mary Scifres

As a turnaround specialist, consultant, coach, and visionary, trained in both corporate management and church leadership, Mary brings a diverse understanding of both changing culture and organizational development to her speaking and consulting. Mary has guided conferences, organizations, staff teams, and churches from Massachusetts to Michigan to Texas to Washington. Serving as a leadership consultant and leading churches on both coasts and throughout the Midwest, Mary brings a broad perspective of this great nation, its cultural shifts, generational challenges, and leadership needs. 

B.J. Beu
Coach, Consultant, & Spiritual Director

An inspiring speaker and a wise spiritual director, B. J. Beu brings 20 years of senior level leadership experience to our team, along with a passion for creating safe space and centered focus for leaders, organizations, and even buildings. Whether working one-on-one with a leader or assessing a space’s energy and situation for serving its employees and customers, Beu brings a myriad of tools and a depth of wisdom that centers his clients and prepares their work and meeting spaces to inspire the employees and serve customers.

 

Author and editor of numerous resources, B. J.’s published works include "The Abingdon Worship Annual," "Planning your Same Sex Wedding," and "Is It Communion Sunday Already?!" 

B.J. Beu

As an ordained United Church of Christ pastor, B. J. spent 20 years leading and pastoring churches in Washington and California. Beyond his writing, preaching and church leadership, B. J. coordinated and designed worship for the Southern California Nevada Conference Annual Gathering for several years, and on the General Synod team in 2013. A graduate of Boston University and Pacific Lutheran University, B. J. has also studied at St. Andrews in Scotland. B. J. lives in Laguna Beach with his wife, Mary, and their son, Michael, a film student at California State University Northridge. 

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