August
20
St. Maximilian Kolbe
(Liberty Township)
10am-3:30pm
August
21
University of Dayton
10am-3:30pm
“Vision is ‘I have a dream,’ and culture is ‘this is
how we march.”
— John Maxwell
Every organization, every parish, every family has an organizational culture. As leaders of a Family of Parishes, your parish culture may be working for or against your best made plans to make disciples who radiate Christ.
Join colleagues from Family Leadership Teams for this one day event designed to help pastors and parish leaders understand the importance and impact of their ecclesial culture in implementing vision, making change, and ultimately fulfilling our mission.
Scott McGohan, retired co-chairman of McGohan Brabender, melds his decades of experience in leadership and business into his mission of improving the workplace for all. Also active in community outreach and service, McGohan was honored with the 2022 People of Vision Award by Prevent Blindness. He is both the founder of and a mentor with the Mentors Matter summer camp, which serves inner-city youth in Dayton, Ohio. A former board member of Crayons to Classrooms and Coastal Pet, McGohan is a current board member for the YMCA and Dayton Development Coalition. A former TEDx speaker, McGohan writes and speaks on company culture, sharing his skills in vision casting, strategy alignment, and leadership deployment. He is currently the Co-Founder of One Morning.
Fr. David Sizemore has been a Catholic priest since 1996 in the Diocese of Columbus, Ohio. He has been pastor of St. Francis de Sales parish in Newark, Ohio since July 2017. Since joining the Saint Francis de Sales community, he has enjoyed: Implementing the New Evangelization as the culture for the parish, growing the parish staff to 50 mission-driven staff members, helping the parish get out debt and deficit and growing the offertory so they can continue to fund growth in the parish and school, offering a variety of spiritual opportunities to lead his parishioners into discipleship, focusing on growing the parish school spiritually and academically through implementing the Classical Education curriculum model and a discipleship culture for the teachers, parents and students.
Before St Francis de Sales, Fr Dave was pastor of St. John Neumann Parish from 2005 to 2017, an adjunct chaplain at Ohio Dominican University for five years, and for five years was the Catholic Chaplain and Catholic Campus Minister at Ohio Wesleyan University. Prior to becoming a pastor, Fr. Dave served as associate pastor in three other diocesan parishes. He currently serves on a variety of diocesan boards and evangelization initiatives. He holds four college degrees in philosophy, systematic theology, spiritual theology, and business administration.
$100 per leadership team covers the cost of lunch, venue, and materials
I am convinced that Beacons of Light, born of great hope, will enable us to form stronger parishes, centered on the Eucharist, that radiate the love of Christ and joy of the Gospel… God has abundantly blessed our first two centuries and will certainly bless the next.
— ARCHBISHOP DENNIS M. SCHNURR