"Paradoxy" Author, The Rev. Ken Howard, Features at Lean Startup Conference 2015

    NEW YORK, NY, October 15, 2015 /24-7PressRelease/ -- The Rev. Ken Howard, author, speaker, extrapreneurial faith leader and church futurist, will feature at the Lean Startup Conference 2015 in San Francisco, November 18. The longtime Episcopal Church pastor (with a background in business) will curate an expert-panel discussion titled, "Borderlines: Exploring the Fertile Boundaries Between Faith and Business."

Among the questions the panel will consider:

- Do business entrepreneurs employ faith?
- Can faith leaders be entrepreneurial?
- How are faith-based startups and business startups alike? How are they different?
- What practical lessons can each learn from the other?

The Rev. Ken Howard is the founder and executive pastor of St. Nicholas Episcopal Church in the Washington, DC, suburbs, and the founder of FaithX.net, a network dedicated to equipping faith-based communities and organizations with tools to survive and thrive in contexts characterized by exponential change and escalating uncertainty.

Howard will be joined on the panel by fellow leaders in the field of extrapreneurial, faith-based endeavor:

Spencer Burke, the founder and executive director of Hatchery LA, a residential church incubator that gathers together individuals who want to become social transformation entrepreneurs and invest in a local community for multiple years by launching sustainable "Common Cause Communities"; and

Toby Rubin, the Founder and CEO of UpStart Bay Area, an organization committed to creating a "Jewish Silicon Valley" that will serve as an engine for innovative ideas that contribute to the continued growth and vitality of Jewish life by serving as an infrastructure for incubating, launching, and nurturing these ideas in emerging and existing communities, organizations, and companies.

Brief audiovisual presentations will be followed by interactive discussion as presenters discuss questions fielded and framed by the curator from those submitted by participants in the room and remotely through twitter.

About Ken Howard:
Twenty-five years ago, Ken Howard left a successful career in non-profit startups, corporate rightsizing and strategic leadership to become an ordained leader in the Episcopal Church, focusing on church-starting, church redevelopment and ministry innovation. Ken has founded, pastored or provided consultation to dozens of church starts, church redevelopments and other faith-based organizations, and has authored several crossover articles on the relationship with business-based and faith-based organizational dynamics, including one with his son, Jonathan Howard, the founder and CEO of a Silicon Valley medical travel start-up. He is the author of Paradoxy: Creating Christian Community Beyond Us and Them, and the forthcoming FaithX: Experimental Faith Communities for an Undiscovered Future. Ken enjoys reading speculative science fiction and contemplating the connections between quantum theory and faith. Ken and most of his family live in Germantown, MD.

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About Lean Startup Co.:
Lean Startup Co. (LSCo), founded by Eric Ries, Heather McGough and Melissa Moore, is the official place for entrepreneurs and corporate innovators seeking ways of working that support continuous innovation and sustainable growth through Lean Startup methodology. LSCo produces their flagship Lean Startup Conference, educational webcasts, podcasts, original content, and offers a Lean Startup Enterprise Training Program. Their resources support those who are new to Lean Startup, seasoned practitioners who want a deeper dive, or companies trying to incorporate it at scale.

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