Leadership over Lunch

About the event

We believe that a New Renaissance of Christian Scholarship, Leadership and Culture is the only thing that can transform the narrative and reshape our society on a healthier footing.

• Leadership, because we have, in the person of Jesus, a model for leadership that is so refreshingly free from the self-promotional power games that have too often been our experience of leadership in politics, business and - shamefully - the Church. This disillusionment and distrust have left people open to believing in conspiracy theories and to embracing leaders who exploit this widespread disillusionment to offer a vision that will further divide, using rhetoric that is increasingly graceless.

About our guests

Sharon Birkman Fink

Sharon Birkman, CEO of Birkman International, is the second generation at the helm of Birkman International.  Her leadership has been instrumental in ushering in a new era of product development and training initiatives during a time of unprecedented growth. Sharon cultivated her deep expertise in human perception and organizational behavior through her lifelong interest in The Birkman Method. Owing to the remarkable insights of her psychologist father, Birkman has grown to include 24 languages with clients that span the globe. Her second book, Creature of Contact: Why You Need More than a Personality Test addresses the non-negotiable human needs we all share for social human connection and healthy relationships.

Sharon has an M.A. from the University of Texas and completed the Harvard Owner/President Management program.  She is a proud regional winner of the 2016 EY Entrepreneur of the Year award, and Birkman has won both the local and national Best and Brightest Companies to Work For. 

In 2017, Sharon won both the Mary Lehman MacLachlan Economic Empowerment Award and Houston Business Journal’s Women Who Mean Business award.

Register your interest in attending

These sessions are made available by invitation and registration of interest. If you would like to attend, or find out more information about a particular session, please email the host directly at jonathan.brant@wycliffe.ox.ac.uk

Event details

Date: 27th April

Time: 1.10-1.50pm

Venue: to be announced

Getting here: Wycliffe Hall is on major bus routes. Limited parking may be available on site (please contact us by email if you have any special access requirements) and pay-and-display on-street parking is available close by in Norham Gardens. 

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