Becoming an Effective Leader In Uncertain Times

Uncertain times require effective leadership, and we are excited to be hosting the maiden edition of our webinar on Becoming an effective leader in uncertain times.

Our Distinguished Speakers

Dr. Ade Oyesile

Dr. Ade Oyesile is an experienced, articulate, reliable, analytical, and outstanding Individual with a solid financial background. He is a financial and risk management expert with over fifteen years of Wall Street experience. He has demonstrated leadership and management experience as well as an understanding of the social-economic and political environment.

He is one of the vocational Pastors of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) in North America; A scholar per excellence with Postgraduate degrees from Bakke Graduate University and Columbia University; A professor in the Master’s of Arts program at City Seminary of New York (CSNY); the Chief Academic Officer (CAO) at the RCCGNA Bible College & Seminary.

Dr. Oyesile possesses astute leadership and multi-tasking skills in a fast-paced environment as well as an excellent understanding of Christian higher education.

Dr. Oyesile has a passion for youth empowerment and community development. He is the founder and Executive Director of Tomorrow Leaders Today; a non-profit organization focusing on Youth empowerment, mentoring, training, and development in the Greater New York Area.

He is happily married to his lovely wife Pastor (Mrs.) Abby Oyesile and they are blessed with children and grandchildren.

Dr. Nimi Wariboko

Dr. Nimi Wariboko is the Walter G. Muelder Professor of Social Ethics at Boston University. He is also a trained economist and a former investment banker on Wall Street, New York, and Lagos, Nigeria. His scholarship focuses on economic ethics, social ethics, political theory, Pentecostalism, African studies, and continental philosophy. He is the author of the following books: The Split Economy: Saint Paul Goes to Wall Street (fall 2020); The Pentecostal Hypothesis: Christ Talks, They Decide (summer 2020), and Ethics and Society in Nigeria: Identity, History, Political Theory (2019).

Dr. Mark G. Gornik

Mark R. Gornik (Ph.D., University of Edinburgh) is the director of City Seminary of New York. After twelve years in Baltimore, wherewith others he helped establish New Song, a church, and a comprehensive approach to community development, Mark moved to New York City in 1998, where he continued in pastoral work and community development in Harlem.

During this time, he began a research effort in African Christianity in New York and became the founding director of City Seminary of New York. Mark has authored To Live in Peace: Biblical Faith and the Changing Inner City (Eerdmans, 2002) and Word Made Global: Stories of African Christianity in New York City (Eerdmans), which was awarded Missions / Global Affairs Book of the Year for Christianity Today.

He is also the editor or co-editor of three volumes, including most recently Andrew F. Walls, Crossing Cultural Frontiers: Studies in the History of World Christianity (Orbis, 2017). His latest book, co-authored with Maria Liu Wong, is Stay in the City: How Christian Faith is Flourishing in an Urban World (Eerdmans, 2017). Mark lives in New York City with his wife Rita Aszalos, sons Peter and Daniel, and cat Shadow.