For the seventeenth consecutive year, dozens of leaders gathered in Sofia to participate in the Global Leadership Conference (GLS). The event, which in English is called "summit" (ie "top, apogee"), aims to inspire and prepare leaders in all spiritual ministries and business environments. This year, the conference was held on November 17th and 18th at the conference center "Vazrazhdane" in Sofia.
The speakers included Pat Gelsinger, James Clear, Ryan Leake, Chris Mathebula, Craig Groeschel, Liz Bohannon, Patrick Lencioni, Dallas Jenkins, Erin Meyer, and Condoleezza Rice. Over the past few months, the conference has been translated into 55 languages and has been held in nearly 1400 cities in 120 countries, covering more than 300 thousand participants worldwide.
“Whether you are a teacher investing in the success of the next generation, an emergency room nurse, a high-level corporate executive, a ministry leader, a thriving business owner, or a college student, you can be the spark that ignites a transformation as lead where you are,"
This is what David Ashcraft and Chris Ordway share - president and vice president of the Global Leaders Network in an address to this year's leadership conference attendees.
This year, 226 leaders from different fields took part in the event in Bulgaria. The host of the event was Teodor Oprenov. As in previous editions of the conference, all the video materials of the Global Leadership Conference, as well as several books released by the keynote speakers at the event, are available in the Studio 865 resource center. Studio 865 is the main organizer of GLS for Bulgaria.
The meaning of a conference like this far exceeds the personal development of the individual leader, no matter what his field of action. The official page of the Bulgarian edition Global Conference on Leadership "Everyone has an impact" points out:
"Today more than ever we need inspired and inspiring individuals, with strong character and stable spirituality, with clear direction and values, to respond and fill the vacuum - not only at the highest levels of management, but at all levels of our organizations."
It is with this vision that Studio 865 invests effort, resources, time, and money each year to bring valuable materials to the world known as the "Willow Creek " conference.
Backstory
The first edition of the Global Leadership Summit (the original name of the conference) was held at the center of Chicago's Willow Creek Church in 1995. From the beginning, the idea was:
"to bring together in one place the expertise of leaders in the spiritual field and market relations, providing a challenge for growth and catalyzing change through dynamic lectures and small group discussion of the topics".
After 2005, the event has traditionally been translated into other languages and regularly broadcast as a separate regional conference with a delay of several months. Since 2014, GLS has been held in 200 of the largest prisons in the US (with a year-round program for convicted people), and a year later a new edition for young people, entitled GLS Next Gen.
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