On August 5, Bill Hybels, senior pastor of Willow Creek Community Church, opened the 16th Global Leadership Summit with a fervent message to leaders on building teams of fantastic people. Speaking to more than 7,000 people at the South Barrington campus near Chicago, Illinois, Hybels also addressed 57,000 additional people watching via satellite in 220 cities in North America.
Hybels opened the two-day conference with a faculty including former NFL coach Tony Dungy, business leader and author Jim Collins, former CEO of General Electric Jack Welch, Andy Stanley, senior pastor of North Point Community Church near Atlanta, evangelist T.D. Jakes, and leading Chinese economist Zhao Xiao.
The Global Leadership Summit is held by the Willow Creek Association and will be taken to areas worldwide at a later date.
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