DALLAS-AREA CEOs ATTEND LEADERSHIP GATHERING
FEATURING T.D. JAKES
Inaugural ‘A Conversation with…’ breakfast series launched to exchange ideas among diverse business leaders
April 4, 2013, DALLAS –Dallas CEOs gathered at The Park City Club for an untraditional breakfast exchange with entrepreneur and pastor, T.D. Jakes, and other prominent Dallas leaders including Mayor Mike Rawlings who introduced the featured speaker.
The March 14 event kicked off the new breakfast talk series called, “A Conversation with…” featuring T.D. Jakes. The talk entitled “A Conversation with… Bishop T.D. Jakes; Our Dysfunctional Government—Whatever Happened to Comity, Compromise, and Cooperation, was the vision of Forrest Smith, founding partner in Ryan Law, LLP, his daughter Candy Smith of Candy Smith Productions and Stephanie Holbrook, whose firm, George Belcher Evans & Wilmer, co-sponsored the event along with Ryan Law, LLP.
The Smiths created the series to provide a safe place for leaders of varying faith backgrounds to discuss the serious issues facing our local business communities and our local and national leadership.
The Q&A formatted program allowed T.D. Jakes, who is primarily known as a pastor of the 30,000 member church, The Potter’s House of Dallas, to discuss his other business ventures, interests beyond the pulpit and his own concerns for the political vitriol, Congressional gridlock and the direction of our nation.
Additional Program Participants Included:
· Thomas George, President of GBE&W
· G. Brint Ryan, Chairman and CEO of Ryan LLP
· Dr. O.S. Hawkins, president of GuideStone Financial Resources, former pastor of
First Baptist Church in Dallas
Companies/CEOs Represented Included:
| Addison Law Firm BCBS Bob Buford Institute ClubCorp Dallas Better Business Bureau Dallas City Council Dean Foods DFW Airport Freedom Park DFW GBE&W |
Hodges Capital Management imc2 Mary Kay Pillar Solutions Ryan Law, LLP Starplex TD Industries TD Jakes Enterprises Trinity Industries White&Wiggins |
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About The Potter’s House
Located in Dallas, The Potter’s House is a 30,000-member nondenominational, multicultural church and humanitarian organization led by Bishop T. D. Jakes, twice featured on the cover of Time magazine as “America’s Best Preacher” and as one of the nation’s “25 Most Influential Evangelicals.” The Potter’s House has five locations, The Potter’s House of Dallas, The Potter’s House of Fort Worth, The Potter’s House of North Dallas, and The Potter’s House of Denver and a Spanish language church, Casa de Fe. 54.201.250.106