SPEAKERS
Erika Andresen
Emergency Management & Business Continuity expert
After a career of high-risk situations where things changed every day and the consequences were actual life and death, Erika Andresen saw that business owners needed similar services to survive but did not know where to start. Erika is a multi-hyphenate: veteran, best-selling author, lawyer, small business owner, volunteer, professional, lecturer, and the solution to resiliency failures. She became an expert in emergency management and business continuity through her decade of experience working in actual disasters and advising on disaster response for an international organization. After starting her professional career as a corporate attorney, Erika felt the call to serve and joined the US Army JAG Corps. She attained the rank of major, advising generals during normal state-side operations, while responding to disasters, and handling terrorist threats in Afghanistan. Her ability to assess risk and plan for contingencies daily while deployed earned Erika a reputation that had NATO advisors at the higher command asking for her input on updating guidance for the entire country. Erika further became known for incorporating all stakeholders in exercises she helped design for the military. She also teaches emergency management to graduate students in University of Texas at El Paso's MPA program and is an invited lecturer for MIT's Professional Program in Advanced Business Resiliency.
Jeff Crosby
President, ECPA
Jeff Crosby is the president of ECPA and an organizational leader and writer who has spent more than four decades working in the world of words and ideas through roles in bookselling and book publishing. He is the author of The Language of the Soul: Meeting God in the Longings of Our Hearts (Broadleaf, 2023) and the editor and compiler of Days of Grace Through the Year (IVP, 2007), a collection of meditations drawn from the work of bestselling author Lewis B. Smedes. His next book, World of Wonders: A Spirituality of Reading, will be published in the fall of 2025 by Paraclete Press. He is currently at work on The Spirit in the Sky: Popular Music and the Search for Transcendence (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2026). His previous written work has appeared in numerous publications including CRUX, Conversations Journal, Living Lutheran Magazine, Urban Faith, Books & Culture, Christian Retailing, Publishers Weekly, Together (UK) and ExploreFaith.org.
Chris Fabry
Host, Chris Fabry Live radio show
Award-winning author of more than 80 books
Chris Fabry is an award-winning author of more than 80 books, including Saving Grayson and his latest, The Forge, based on the film by the Kendrick Brothers. He’s the winner of the Carol Award and five Christy Awards, and was inducted into the Christy Award Hall of Fame. Chris is also the host of Chris Fabry Live on Moody Radio.
Alan Fadling
Founding partner, Unhurried Living, Inc.
Alan Fadling (MDiv) is a founding partner of Unhurried Living, Inc. in Mission Viejo, California. He writes and speaks as an expert in the challenge of hurry in contemporary life and work and how to overcome it. He consults and coaches leaders and their organizations in the U.S. and around the world, helping them work towards long-term productivity that lasts rather than settling for quick fixes that don’t. He is the award-winning author of five books including An Unhurried Life, An Unhurried Leader and A Non-Anxious Life.
Shelley Husband
EVP of Government Affairs, Association of American Publishers
Shelley Husband is the Executive Vice President of Government Affairs at the Association of American Publishers. Prior to joining AAP, Shelley served as Staff Director and General Counsel for the House Committee on the Judiciary from 2013 to 2019, where she spearheaded hundreds of bills addressing copyrights, patents, technology, and antitrust issues, and managed a forty-person team across multiple subcommittees and offices. As top policy, political, and legal advisor to the Chair and committee members, she routinely met with senior government officials and industry representatives. From 2002-2012, Shelley served as Chief of Staff for Congressman Bob Goodlatte. Among numerous other projects and achievements during her career, Shelley helped launch the bicameral, bipartisan, Congressional International Anti-Piracy Caucus, which was chaired by Mr. Goodlatte and then-Senator Joseph R. Biden, and she directed a comprehensive, bipartisan review of our nation’s copyright laws which culminated in historic reforms being signed into law.
Nicole Martin
Chief Impact Officer, Christianity Today
Founder/Executive Director, Soulfire International Ministries
Rev. Dr. Nicole Massie Martin holds degrees from Vanderbilt University, Princeton Theological Seminary, and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. She is the Chief Impact Officer at Christianity Today and founder and Executive Director of Soulfire International Ministries. She is an accomplished writer and author, serves on various boards and councils, and leads the Grow Ministry at Kingdom Fellowship AME Church in Maryland. She and her husband, Mark, are proud parents to two amazing daughters.
Shirley Mullen
President Emerita, Houghton College
Claiming the Courageous Middle
Shirley Mullen served 15 years as President of Houghton College, Houghton, N.Y., retiring in May 2021. She has spent four decades in the work of faith based liberal arts education. Prior to becoming Houghton’s president, she served at various times as a classroom professor, chief academic officer and residence life director. She is an avid life-long learner with earned doctorates in both history and philosophy, focusing in her studies on the Enlightenment period and its complex impact on the Modern World, on liberal learning, and on our understanding of the human condition. As President Emerita, she continues to speak, write, and consult, as well as to encourage and develop the next generation of leaders through mentoring and serving on the boards of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities, the National Association of Evangelicals, Fuller Seminary, and the First Amendment Partnership. Her book, Claiming the Courageous Middle: Daring to Live and Work Together for a More Hopeful Future, was recently published in April 2024.