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Professional Flops and Failures: What Can God Reveal?

  • The Engine Fueled by Ankura 2963 Sidco Dr., Suite 101 Nashville, TN 37204 (map)
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Do you wonder if you are faithfully working in your sphere of influence? Join us for teaching, tools, and stories about practicing work faithfully as we host dialogues with professionals from various industries.  

  • Date: Thursday, September 26

  • Time: 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.

  • Location: The Engine Fueled by Ankura (2963 Sidco Dr., Suite 101, Nashville, TN 37204)

  • Food: Buffet lunch provided

Bankruptcy, job loss, project rejection; there is great frustration when we feel we have fallen short in our job. Do we believe God will use these flops in His plan to renew all things? A panel of Nashvillians, Todd Foster, Amy Norton, and Troy Woolley, will share their personal experiences with disappointment and failures in their work and the lessons God revealed to them.

About the Lunches
We use a practical theological framework to identify the inherent goodness of work, its outcomes, and the deeper questions it asks of us. The gatherings provide glimpses into common struggles and philosophical differences, and seek to foster the hope that emerges when we come to expect more from God within our work. Let’s work on faithfully working at work.


MEET THE SPEAKERS

Todd Foster

Todd is a Regional Account Director at PathGroup Laboratories here in Nashville, TN.  For the past 20 years, Todd has been actively involved in patient-centered Healthcare with experience in the insurance, pharmaceutical, public health and diagnostic space.

He has a Marketing degree from The University of Georgia. Todd recently completed a comprehensive Career Discernment Course as well as Gotham, through the Nashville Institute for Faith and Work.

He serves regularly at Christ Presbyterian Church and Academy. He has a beautiful wife of 19 years, 14 year-old triplets and a Pug named Stanley.  His passion is encouragement and creatively persuading others to action as well as stimulating positive change in their Faith and Work.

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Amy Norton

Amy Norton is a senior partner at GiANT Worldwide, a global company dedicated to leadership transformation and healthy multiplication. She founded her consulting practice in 2014 after her own leadership journey and is focused on helping clients bring intentionality into all their circles of influence, starting with self.

Amy’s passion for the transformation of leaders is palpable, as she knows healthy leadership = healthy organizations. In founding and running her own businesses, as a key leader in a start-up online media outlet and working for a 150-year-old educational institution, Amy has clearly seen that consistent secure leadership ensures success. Every. Single. Time.

Amy’s work includes leadership coaching, team development, and company-wide training and spans across many fields including financial services, construction teams, start-ups, non-profits, military, technology companies and more. Amy’s clients consistently realize sustainable results in leadership development initiatives and the creation of healthy organizational culture.

When people ask Amy what she does, she’s quick with a chuckle and response, “I’m an adult behavior modification specialist” – and she truly is!

In addition to working for the liberation of leaders and organizations everywhere, she is a sought-after speaker and writer. She lives in Nashville, TN with her family.

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Troy Woolley

Troy is a co-founder of IDDO and the Executive in Residence at Ruby, a fintech startup of First Tennessee Bank. He previously worked at innovation consultancies Farehnheit 212 and Flo Thinkery, and also ran his own technology startup in New York City. He holds an MBA from The Wharton School where he focused his studies on finance and innovation.