Anne Hobday - Emergency/respite care foster parent for South Carolina Department of Social Services @ First Friday Networking

Bill Burr - Main anchor for FOX 24 Charleston and a vital member of the ABC News 4 newsroom

Melissa Levesque - Vice President of Development & Stewardship, Coastal Community Foundation

Clayton Burrous will share what he has learned form his extensive travel, work, and worship experiences in China: "Where China and the Catholic Faith Meet"

John Carroll, consultant, strategist, and executive coach

Sister Gioan Linh Nguyen, Daughters of Saint Paul

Joan Mack, Retired television and radio broadcaster (Channels 5, 2 and SC Public Radio) & Catholic Leader.

Dan Doyle Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Beach Company, discusses three projects that seek to build community and improve the quality of life for residents. 

Ben Sands, founder of Sands Leadership will discuss;

Breakthrough Catholic Leadership:

A 5-Step Game Plan To Succeed At Work Without Compromising Your Faith

In this engaging, interactive talk with executive coach Ben Sands, you will learn:

• A five-step “game plan” to help you accelerate your professional career without having to compromise your personal faith.
  
• The top three "roadblocks" holding Catholic leaders back from achieving both professional success AND healthy, holy lives.
  
• The surprising advice that Jesus has for Catholic business leaders and why the Bible is the best leadership development guide ever written.
  
• How the most "successful" Catholic leaders build trust with, and earn the respect of, colleagues who don't share their faith.
  
• The #1 mistake that Catholic professionals make when making career decisions.
  
• And more…

Steve Wood a Catholic Radio program host and Catholic apologist  celebrated the launch of WBEI at Bishop England High School. Steve’s highly regarded shows on South Carolina Catholic Radio are Faith & Family and Luke 21.

Founder and president, Family Life Center International, former evangelical pastor, and founder, St. Joseph’s Covenant Keepers, Steve has led youth, campus, and pro-life ministries for more than forty years. A graduate of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, he served as an evangelical pastor for a decade before his entire family converted to Catholicism in 1990. Responding to a challenge from Pope John Paul II to strengthen families, he started the Family Life Center International in 1992. The Family Life Center has touched the lives of thousands of families in more than eighty countries. In 2007, Pope Benedict XVI awarded Steve the "For the Church and for the Pope" (Pro Ecclesia Et Pontifice) medal, an award given for distinguished service to the church, in recognition for his work with St. Joseph's Covenant Keepers. Steve and his organization along with a library of resources for the family is available at dads.org