Keynote Speakers

James A. Phills
Tuesday, April 27
8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

Jim Phills is director of the Stanford University Center for Social Innovation, where he directs a number of executive programs and teaches MBA electives on nonprofit strategy and social entrepreneurship. His research focuses on the emerging area of social innovation, particularly the growing exchange of ideas, talent, capital, and values across sector boundaries and the shifting roles and relationships between of business, government, and nonprofits in development of innovative solutions to social problems. He is also Academic Editor of the Stanford Social Innovation Review. Phills is the author of a number of publications on learning and change in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors, including Integrating Mission and Strategy for Nonprofit Organization (Oxford University Press, 2005). Prior to moving to Stanford, he was on the faculty at the Yale School of Management where he received the Alumni Association Award for Excellence in teaching in 1995. Phills holds Master's Degree and PhD from Harvard.

Phills has consulted to a wide array of organizations for over 20 years. A partial list of his clients includes: American Electric Power, Dean & DeLuca, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, General Mills, Girl Scouts USA, Herman Miller Corporation, Kaiser Permanente, and the San Francisco Police Department.

James Phills on overcoming barriers to strategic change

Abundant Life Together

Mary Hinkle Shore
Tuesday, April 27
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m.

Mary Hinkle Shore is Associate Professor of New Testament at Luther Seminary. She received the B.A. degree summa cum laude from Capital University in Columbus, Ohio, graduated from Luther Northwestern Theological Seminary, was ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and earned her Ph.D. degree in New Testament and Christian Origins from Duke University. Following ordination, Mary served for six years in rural and suburban parish settings in North Dakota. She currently is rostered in the Southwestern Minnesota Synod of the ELCA and is a member of the Society of Biblical Literature.

Among Dr. Shore's recent publications is Signs of Belonging: Luther's Marks of the Church and the Christian Life, published by Augsburg Fortress in the Lutheran Voices series; and essays, "The Lord's Prayer: Empowerment for Living the Sermon on the Mount" (Word and World. 2002) and "Exegesis" (Lectionary Homiletics. 2002).