Year-Round Mentoring Group for Marketplace Leaders

Stephen Giere Giere has served in Christian ministry in America and Europe for more than forty years. He taught and led a Bible Study Fellowship (BSF) class of 500 men in Chicago for seventeen years. Steve is a board member with the Forum of Christian Leaders serving in Europe with the European Leadership Forum. Key to his role is shepherding and mentoring young leaders. He serves as a lecturer/mentor at the Cambridge Leaders Network in Cambridge, UK.  Steve and his wife, Connie, are residents of Geneva, IL and members of The Moody Church in Chicago, a diverse, urban congregation with seventy countries of birth and fifty mother languages represented in its membership. There he teaches, mentors, and serves as an elder. They have two grown children and ten grandchildren. Steve retired in 2019 after 45 years engaged in finance with experience in corporate management as CEO of a commercial bank, and as a business owner establishing an investment management practice. Steve earned his B.A. in psychology at North Central College in Naperville, IL, and M.M. from the J.L. Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL.

Barbara Herrmann leads a team in her consulting business for organisation, leadership, and strategy development. She guides church leaders and several teams on how to develop their organisations. She delivered numerous development workshops and is working one-on-one with different leaders.  At different churches and Christian organizations, she organised marketplace leader initiatives and she has also been supporting a church plant initiative. She has led a team of 60 at a multinational company as a people and transformation manager for 5 years. Before that, she led international teams for large-scale change, culture development, leadership, organisation, operations and transformation programs (35-70.000 colleagues).