Mike McCormick Of the seven Cultural Mountains Pinnacle Forum Partners seek to influence for Christ—arts & entertainment, business, education, family, government, media and religion—none is trickier to traverse than government. The political process is exhausting, expensive and fraught with personal exposure. Mike McCormick knows this from experience. He narrowly missed a congressional seat twice in…
Angelo Kleronomos & Bill Read Kurt Becker played guard for the World Champion Chicago Bears and was roommates with quarterback Jim McMahon. These days he’s the coach of his alma mater, East Aurora High School near Chicago. Kurt has a successful business and didn’t need to get into coaching. He did it to help the…
Jonathan Cottrell Pinnacle Forum Partner, Jonathan Cottrell (https://jonathancottrell.com) was fascinated by entrepreneurship as a child long before he knew the word or could spell it. By eleven, he was running neighborhood businesses after reading a book of business ideas for kids. Born and raised in Phoenix, he came to a personal relationship with Jesus at…
Tammy Vallejo Pinnacle Forum Partner, Tammy Vallejo is the President of E49 (www.e49corp.org), which stands for Ecclesiastes 4:9, “Where two are better than one … and a three cord strand cannot be broken.” “E49 exists to connect, resource and mobilize civic, business, non-profit, church and community leaders to respond to the critical needs in our…
Debbie Johnson “I first heard of human trafficking in 2007,” says Pinnacle Forum Partner, Debbie Johnson, Founder and CEO of Without Permission, Inc (www.withoutpermission.org). “Learning of the sale, sexual exploitation and murder of little girls in Mexico broke my heart. I began to research this bondage and it has become my life’s mission to expose…
Daniel Bernard Pinnacle Forum Partner, Daniel Bernard has three full time jobs. He runs his own business; he’s the President and Founder of Somebody Cares Tampa Bay (www.sctb.org), and he’s a movie producer for The Favorite. Along the way, he has been married for 32 years, raised a family of six children, and written several books. Daniel’s for-profit…
Michael Scott Pinnacle Forum Partner, Michael Scott is managing Partner of Pure Flix (https://pureflix.com). Along with David A. R. White and Russell Wolfe, he started the company in 2005 with a mission to produce, distribute and acquire Christ-centered movies, “for the sole purpose of changing our culture for Christ, one heart at a time.” Michael grew up…
Jeff Pishney Love Our Cities (www.LoveOurCities.org) is a national organization that grew out of the concern of one church—Big Valley Grace Community Church—for one city—Modesto, California. It started with outreach pastor Jeff Pishney asking himself: “Why is our city on lists of the worst cities in America? If our churches were to suddenly disappear from…
Rodney Cox Pinnacle Forum Partner, Rodney Cox started Ministry Insights International (www.ministryinsights.com) in 2001 after a successful career as a manager for a major tool supplier. During that time, he had learned the power of behavioral assessments as a way to better screen potential franchise owners. He felt called to apply what he’d learned in the strengths-based movement…
John Lochner Pinnacle Forum Partner, John Lochner became a Servant later in life and went from being retired to active duty in. the Kingdom. After a career in retail and insurance, John had sold his insurance agency in 2009 and a few years later he and his wife, Kathy, started Legacy Group of America (https://lgofa.org) because, as John…
