An Uncommon Guide to Retirement: Finding God’s Purpose for the Next Season of Life
Jeff Haanen
Located in the Heart of the National Western Center
In an age obsessed with speed and scale, even faithful business leaders and companies can lose God’s vision for business.
This is a business event unlike others because Christians should be in business unlike others. We want to cast a vision for business beyond society’s, and we want to see business as one of the most compelling arenas for God’s work in the world.
Visit organizations and leaders putting faith and business into practice for the good of their cities. Add a company tour to your BCG experience and visit a local business led by faith-driven leaders. Choose from 4–6 locations for an intimate lunch with 12–20 guests, exploring faith, business, and the gospel’s influence on our world today.
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Bryce Butler is the Founder and Managing Director of Access Ventures, a private operating foundation in Louisville, Kentucky, that is changing the way the world invests by deploying capital in service of human flourishing. A former U.S. Army officer, pastor, and educator, he also founded the AV Foundation, co-founded the Leadership Experience (a community of Christian leaders integrating faith and work), and helped found Peregrine Ventures in Oxford, England. He and his wife, Bethany, live in Louisville with their four daughters.
Sheeba Philip is the Founder and CEO of Impart Group, a global strategy consulting firm that partners with faith-driven leaders and organizations to drive transformation. The firm combines world-class operating expertise with deep discernment to help leaders build organizations that shine as forces for good. With more than two decades of executive experience across Fortune 500 companies, startups, and global NGOs, Sheeba has led at the intersection of business strategy, brand transformation, and impact. Sheeba has held senior roles at Kraft Foods, where she led global brand management and growth strategy for OREO, and at JCPenney, where, as Vice President of Marketing, she led the brand and media transformation of the $12 billion retailer. As CEO of Akola, she transformed a nonprofit into a social enterprise, creating dignified employment for women in East Africa. She is a Venture Partner with Jeremiah Fund, a mentor for the Praxis Redemptive Venture Accelerator, and a graduate of Harvard Business School
Bill Kurtz is the Founder of DSST Public Schools, a public charter school network in Colorado, where he now serves as Senior Advisor after leading the organization as CEO. Kurtz left Wall Street for education and spent two decades building DSST into a $100 million-plus organization grounded in the belief that every child can achieve greatness. Today he coaches and advises CEOs on their leadership and serves on the board of directors of Liberty Live Holdings. He writes Leading Yourself to Lead Others, a weekly Substack reflection for leaders, and was a guest on The Faith & Work Podcast episode "Voices from the Workplace: Approaches to Education with Hilary Oswald & Bill Kurtz".
Hanna Skandera Grady is CEO and President of the Daniels Fund, one of the Rocky Mountain region’s largest foundations, with a $2 billion endowment and more than $1.5 billion in charitable giving. A nationally recognized leader in education and philanthropy, she has launched ambitious initiatives in civics education, youth sports, ethics, and school choice, while catalyzing $600 million in funding partnerships. Her career spans classrooms, boardrooms, state capitols, and the U.S. Department of Education, including service as New Mexico’s Secretary of Education. Known for translating bold ideas into meaningful impact, Skandera Grady serves on several corporate and nonprofit boards, including Philanthropy Roundtable, Perdoceo, and MGT. She was named one of the Denver Business Journal’s 2025 Most Admired CEOs.
Nathan Mayo is Vice President of Operations and Programs at True Charity, where he recruits, equips, and connects poverty-fighting organizations so they can continually improve their approaches and outcomes. He translates expert insight and data into practical applications for practitioners, and his work has appeared in CNN Business, National Review, The Gospel Coalition, and WORLD Magazine. A West Point graduate with a degree in economics, Mayo served as an Army armor and reconnaissance officer in Germany, then spent two years in Haiti with his wife, Abigail, helping build a network of Haitian-run churches and schools. They live in Joplin, Missouri, with their daughters, Heidi and Lillie.
Ross Chapman is CEO of Denver Institute for Faith & Work. Before working at Denver Institute he served as the President and Executive Director at For Evansville, a movement of people who are actively working toward the good of the Greater Evansville region. Ross has earned his doctorate of ministry in faith, work, economics and vocation at Fuller Theological Seminary. He is the co-author of Faithful Work: In the Daily Grind with God and for Others (IVP, Winter, 2024).
Since 2009, Leisle Chung and her husband, Dr. Vinh Chung, have opened nine dermatology clinics throughout Colorado. As CEO of the practice, Leisle provides leadership to its expansive mission to positively impact patients, the community, and the world. Before Vanguard, Leisle graduated magna cum laude from Yale College, studied theology at the University of Edinburgh, earned her MBA from Harvard Business School, and spent almost a decade at Bain & Company, a leading global consulting firm. The film Minari, about a Korean family who moved to rural Arkansas in the 1980s, is based on Leisle’s family’s life experience. Leisle lives in Colorado Springs with her husband and four children.
karla nugent
As a founding partner of Weifield Group, now a Loenbro company, Karla Nugent is responsible for the company’s sales, marketing and preconstruction in 19 states, 21 offices. Weifield Group has grown to over 1000+ employees in the Rocky Mountain region, receiving the Denver Post Top Workplace award for twelve years running, the USA Top Workplace award annually since 2020 and is the first electrical contractor in the region to complete Net-Zero energy projects.
She is proficient at building relationships and alliances and is highly regarded by her peers, design community, developers, general contractors, and vendors as a leader in the industry. Karla promotes Weifield Group while passionately advocating for a better construction workforce and industry, as well as the needs of the less fortunate. She has been an innovator in workforce development and improving training for the next generation of construction workers. Her deep commitment to philanthropy and her professional achievements led her to be recognized with many awards.
Kate Gardner a next-generation investor and philanthropist with a passion for holistic stewardship and community-building. After an inheritance event, she stewards her capital through the name Kinveris, with a particular focus on impact investing. A resident of Nashville for 5 years, she also spends her time on localized relationships, prayer, and helping other Next-Gens through a faith-based community called Magnify and media around legacy called Ascendants. She seeks to encourage other inheritors and business families to seek relational health, creativity, and purpose in the way they both wrestle with and embrace stewarding resources and living a legacy.
jeff haanen
Jeff Haanen is the co-founder of YOKE, an executive recruiting company that connects businesses at inflection points with experienced, high-character fractional leaders. He’s also the founder of Better Exit, an advisory firm focused on transforming the process of selling a business to prioritize the long-term flourishing of owners, their businesses, and their community. Previously, Jeff was the founder and CEO of Denver Institute for Faith and Work. He’s the author of two books and many publications on the topics of faith, business, work, and society. He lives in Littleton, Colorado with his wife and four daughters.
Jeff Hoffmeyer
Jeff serves as vice president of advancement. Prior to his time at Denver Institute, Jeff served in a variety of pastoral roles for more than fifteen years, most recently as the senior pastor of La Cañada Presbyterian Church in California. He has a Ph.D. in systematic theology from Graduate Theological Union, is developing curriculum for Fuller Seminary’s Doctor of Ministry program, and has actively led fundraising campaigns for churches as well as for the Boulder Shelter for the Homeless. Jeff lives in Boulder with his wife, Heather, and their children, Eleanore and Andersen.
Abby Worland
Abby serves as the VP of Operations & Finance where she spends her energy making sure things run smoothly and effectively. Before coming to Denver Institute, she spent more than a decade working in public education in Mississippi and Colorado as a teacher, administrator, and human resources leader. Abby is an alum of the 5280 Fellowship, and she is passionate about the Denver restaurant scene–ask her for recommendations.
Brian Gray
Brian is the VP of Formation here at Denver Institute and also leads our 5280 Fellowship program. Prior to landing at Denver Institute, he served in pastoral ministry for thirteen years and at Denver Seminary for four years. His vocation includes moving ideas out into life through relationships and conversation – whether that applies to God, work, the Church, good beer, or Liverpool Football Club. He married way out of his league, and spends most of his free-time being parented by his two daughters
Joanna Meyer
Joanna serves as the Founder and Executive Director of Women, Work, & Calling, while also hosting the Faith & Work Podcast. Prior to coming to the Institute, Joanna worked in global telecom, nonprofit consulting, and campus ministry with Cru. She has an MA in Social Entrepreneurship from Bakke Graduate University and graduated magna cum laude from the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is the author of Women, Work, & Calling: Step Into Your Place in God's World (IVP, Fall 2023).
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Yes! Email events@denverinstitute.org for more information on scholarships, discount codes for nonprofit employees, full-time students, young professionals & our Monthly Partners. Discount codes only apply to individual ticket purchases. Limited supply available.
No. Business for the Common Good is an in-person event in Denver, CO.
Check out our sponsorship page for more details or email sponsorship@denverinstitute.org to learn more. Thanks!
Please email events@denverinstitute.org if you have additional questions. Thanks!
Visit our virtual bookstore to read and purchase books written by past Business for the Common Good speakers.
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Guests will have the opportunity to attend one of five breakout sessions before lunch. Explore the topics below!
Hiring is one of the most consequential decisions any employer makes for productivity, profitability, and organizational health. And employees want a job where they are valued. This session examines how forward-thinking leaders are embedding love into their workforce strategies through employee retention, nontraditional hiring, compensation, and other pathways to flourishing. Companies can design jobs that restore people and create value that expands the bottomline beyond their profit—renewing lives, strengthening communities, and reshaping workplace culture. Discover how business leaders and workforce partners are redefining success for the good of their own success and their employees flourishing.
This isn’t another conversation about values-aligned investing or philanthropy. It’s a deeper reckoning with how mercy can shape what we do with capital itself. This session examines how wealth holders can reframe capital from merely a possession to grow as a good steward to a means of participation in God’s redemptive work as a good steward. In financial terms, that may mean taking risks others won’t, accepting lower returns, or deploying wealth where restoration, not reward, is the goal. It’s about doing good even when it costs you doing as well as you could by embracing loss as faithfulness and risk as love. Participants will leave with a renewed imagination for capital as capacity for mercy—the kind that reshapes both investment portfolios and strategies.
Workers in today’s labor market often and regularly maintain care responsibilities for children, parents, or loved ones, and the emotional and logistical load can be immense. Yet caregiving, at its core, reflects the very character of God, who tends to and sustains his people and all of creation. This session explores how leaders and organizations can create cultures and strategies that respect and make room for employees with these responsibilities, workplaces that do not force their workers to choose between faithfulness at home and fruitfulness at work. Learn from practitioners, advocates, and executives reimagining schedules, benefits, and cultures that dignify caregiving as essential, not peripheral, to a flourishing workforce.
Explore the biblical and theological foundations that undergird love and mercy in economic life. Rather than reducing Jesus’ insistence on love to a societal definition of charity, this session explores how rightly ordered love transforms systems of exchange, commerce, into instruments of restoration and human flourishing. Participants will examine mercy as the organizing principle of God’s economy—one that redefines value, exchange, and purpose itself. Drawing from Scriptural emphases like Jubilee, gleaning, and the Good Samaritan, this conversation offers a foundation for leaders seeking a more faithful economic imagination for their work and enterprises. It’s an imagination that can animate their everyday work, no matter how their work contributes to today’s economy.
Frontline employees are the face of an organization. Their words and presence shape customer experience more than any policy, brand statement, or leader’s name. This session highlights the unique opportunity these roles have for relational connection, showing how everyday interactions can foster dignity, resolve conflict, and build a culture of care. Learn from leaders experienced in managing frontline teams as they share how to equip employees with practices of hospitality and grace—while also extending compassion to the frontline workers themselves, who often bear the greatest weight of customer expectations.
Yes! Email events@denverinstitute.org for more information on scholarships, discount codes for nonprofit employees, full-time students, young professionals & our Monthly Partners. Discount codes only apply to individual ticket purchases.
No. Business for the Common Good is an in-person event in Denver, CO.
Check out our sponsorship page for more details or email Jeff Hoffmeyer, VP of Advancement, directly at jeff.hoffmeyer@denverinstitute.org. Thanks!
Please email events@denverinstitute.org if you have additional questions. Thanks!
