Craig Robertson - Executive Director
| Founding member and Executive Director of Spiritual Leadership, Inc., Craig’s business experience includes founding and serving as President of Lightpath, Inc., This company was purchased by formerly fortune 500 company Ogden, Inc. where Robertson became National Technical Director. He was then hired by Ogeta Services to serve as the Chairman of the Board and CEO. Craig is a Lay member of his church in Lexington. He has served in many roles within the United Methodist Church including lay leader of St Luke UMC, Lexington District lay leader, Director of New Church Development and Delegate to General and Jurisdictional Conference. Craig has now been serving within his calling, coaching and building Ministry Teams for 9 years. Craig is married to Jill and they have two children Amy and Jacob. |
Ron Crandall - ABIDE Leader
| Ron is an ordained United Methodist elder in the Kentucky Conference and recently retired as Dean of the E. Stanley Jones School of World Mission and Evangelism at Asbury Theological Seminary. Ron’s ministry focus has been on smaller membership churches and effective Christian witness. This dual passion led to the development of ABIDE as a specialized ministry of SLI. His new book Turnaround and Beyond—A Hopeful Future for Smaller Membership Churches captures the special challenges faced by smaller congregations and the leadership steps necessary to forge new futures. Ron and Bonnie live in Lexington, KY and have two sons and two grandchildren |
Bryan Sims - Leadership Coach and Coach Training
| Bryan works with SLI training and coaching leaders, teams, churches, and organizations over extended periods of time to bring spiritual awakening and missional effectiveness. In his work with SLI, he has worked in several United Methodist Conferences, including Northwest Texas, West Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Nebraska, and Alabama-West Florida. Bryan is also an adjunct professor at Asbury Theological Seminary in the School of Practical Theology with a teaching focus in the area of Christian Leadership. Bryan has a PH. D. in Organizational Leadership from Regent University (2009) and is a graduate of Asbury Theological Seminary (M.Div., 2003). In addition, Bryan has two audio CD’s: Demonstrate Your Power (1999) and Black and White (1997). He and his wife MyLinda have been happily married since 1997 and have two boys, Isaiah and Luke. |
Deb Rice - Specialty HR Services
| Deb's consulting services include human resource, leadership & organizational development assistance for Christian leaders within profit and non-profit environments who desire a more purposeful and effective way of living their lives, leading others, and their organizations. Her consulting focus is centered on helping leaders and organizations become missionally effective through the alignment of employee engagement and human resource initiatives and organizational systems that support the mission, vision, values and strategic priorities of the organization. Deb has 20+ years' human resource and organizational development experience and is certified as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) and as a Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Professional. She has a Masters Degree in Christian Leadership and Bachelors Degree in Business Administration. Deb has worked and consulted in profit and non-profit environments within a wide variety of organizations, including; Agriculture, Community-based, Distribution, Education, Faith-based, Food Services, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Retail and Social Services. Deb and her husband, Jim, reside in Kentucky. They have ten children between them, five of whom are married, and 15 grandchildren. |
Chuck Lord - Leadership Coach, Materials and Technology
| Founding member and fulltime leadership coach with SLI, Chuck has led teams from a variety of organizations - churches, non-profits, denominational associations - in several states including Kentucky, North Carolina, Florida, Kansas, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. As one of the original Board members, he has been actively involved since SLI's inception in 2000. Chuck recently retired from the University of Kentucky, where he taught music theory and music technology for many years. He and his wife Sue make their home in Lexington, KY; they have three daughters and two grandsons. |
Mathieu S. Gnonhossou - Specialty Services - Conflict Transformation Services
| Mathieu S. Gnonhossou was graduated from the University of Abomey-Calavi (French Bachelor and Master in Language and Communication Sciences), from MB Biblical Seminary (M.A. Intercultural Mission), as well as Asbury Theological Seminary (D.Min, family and counseling concentration). He studied at the Center for Peacemaking and Conflict Studies of Fresno Pacific University where he was certified to use conflict mediation skills, to set up Victim Offender Reconciliation Programs, and to train community mediators. Mathieu studied Conflict Transformation skills from the Lombard Mennonite Peace Center and received a certificate in workplace conflict management from Mediation Training International Institute. Through his ministry experiences in West Africa, Mathieu was involved in and handled interpersonal as well as group conflicts. Mathieu is involved with a team of conflict facilitators and mediators working toward community conflict transformation through Just Solution Mediation Services, Louisville, KY. His theological education and intercultural experiences prepare him to offer culturally and spiritually appropriate services toward conflict transformation. |
Greg Survant - Chair
| Greg is a founding member of SLI and a retired vice president and general manager of a Fortune 500 research, development and manufacturing company. He has grown through God’s grace in his 26 years workplace leadership and 25 years of church leadership experience and is currently chairman of the board. He works not only on the board but also serves in mentoring and consulting roles. Greg and his wife Glenda have two adult sons. |
Craig Robertson - Executive Director
| Founding member and Executive Director of Spiritual Leadership, Inc., Craig’s business experience includes founding and serving as President of Lightpath, Inc., This company was purchased by formerly fortune 500 company Ogden, Inc. where Robertson became National Technical Director. He was then hired by Ogeta Services to serve as the Chairman of the Board and CEO. Craig is a Lay member of his church in Lexington. He has served in many roles within the United Methodist Church including lay leader of St Luke UMC, Lexington District lay leader, Director of New Church Development and Delegate to General and Jurisdictional Conference. Craig has now been serving within his calling, coaching and building Ministry Teams for 9 years. Craig is married to Jill and they have two children Amy and Jacob. |
Sam Augsburger
| Isaiah 61:1-2 describes the four-fold purpose of the coming Christ: to bring hope, freedom, healing, and forgiveness. Sam believes in the call to be an imitator of Jesus and strives to express the same purpose through biomechanical engineering at Shriners Hospital for Children, teaching at his church, and serving with SLI. |
Lucien Gochett
As an SLI Board Member, Lucien provides leadership to the SLI Treasury function. He has held various roles in church ministry, including Sunday School teacher (Adult and Young Men), assistant youth group superintendant, National Financial Secretary and Assistant Convention Coordinator for the Sunday School and Holiness Young People’s Union, and member of the National Brotherhood, all within the Churches of Christ Holiness U.S.A. (COCHUSA); and pianist and organist for numerous churches in various geographical areas across different denominations. He is currently Music Director for the Mt. Calvary Missionary Baptist Church in Lexington, KY. Lucien’s business experience includes leadership roles in Finance and Quality Improvement across several Fortune 500 companies. He and his wife Trudy reside in Lexington, KY, with their children Kevin, Briana, and Brendan. |
Tom Tumblin
Tom Tumblin, a member of Asbury’s faculty since 1999, serves as Dean of the Beeson International Center for Biblical Preaching and Church Leadership. The Center houses the doctor of ministry program, Asbury’s extension campus initiative, the center for life long learning, the center for apostolic congregations and various other outreaches. For the decade prior to 1999, he served as associate pastor and then executive pastor at Ginghamsburg UMC near Dayton, OH. His research interests include equipping the laity, ecclesiology, research design, organizational behavior and change leadership. Tom is an elder in the West Ohio Conference of the United Methodist Church where he served as a district superintendent from 2003 to 2008. His other professional associations include the International Leadership Association and the Academy for Religious Leadership. Tom and his wife Yvonne enjoy three daughters and reside in Nicholasville, KY. The family is active at the Nicholasville UMC. |