Leading Through Change
Join us for the Nebraska Leadership Conference with Bill Hybels and Tom Osborne. Bookmark this page for more updates and information! Download a pdf file of our conference flyer.

Nebraska Leadership Conference
Friday, September 12, 2008
10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Pershing Center, Lincoln, NE

What to Expect

Purchase Tickets
Tickets are $98 each. You can purchase them online through Ticketmaster. They are also available at Pershing Center in Lincoln, Nebraska. When you purchase your tickets through Pershing, you can buy 10 and get the 11th ticket free! Simply call 402-441-7766. You can avoid the $8.50 online convenience fee and purchase them directly from Pershing at 226 Centennial Mall South in Lincoln.

Attention Students! We are offing tickets to students at a special rate of $15. Students need to purchase tickets online through Ticketmaster or in person at Pershing and must present a current photo student ID at the conference entrance to be let in. Download a pdf file of our student conference flyer.

Lodging in Lincoln
Downtown Lincoln
Embassy Suites www.embassysuites.com 402-474-1111
The Cornhusker Marriot Hotel www.thecornhusker.com 402-474-7474
The Holiday Inn  www.ichotelsgroup.com 402-435-0200
Best Western AAA Villager Courtyard & Gardens www.bestwestern.com  402-464-9111

Other hotels near Pershing Center
Chase Suite Hotel www.woodfinesuitehotels.com 402-483-4900
Comfort Inn www.americasbestvalueinn.com 402-475-3658
Days Inn & Suites www.daysinn.com 402-477-4488
Econo Lodge www.econolodge.com 402-475-4511
Lincoln Microtel Inn & Suites www.microtelinn.com 800-771-7171
Lincoln New Victorian Suites www.newvictorianinn.com 402-464-4400
Staybridge Suites I-80 www.ichotelsgroup.com 888-299-2208

Lincoln, Nebraska, hotel websites
www.lincolnhoteldeals.com
www.lincoln-nebraska.onetravelsource.com
www.nebraskahotels.org/cities/Lincoln
www.findlocalhotels.com/listings/lincoln_ne_us
www.hotel-rates.com/us/nebraska/lincoln

Parking in Lincoln
Free parking will be available at Kaplan University on the corner of 18th and K Streets. Please leave the front row open for Kaplan students.

Download a map of parking garages downtown Lincoln. (pdf)

Bill Hybels
In 1995, Bill Hybels founded the Willow Creek Leadership Summit, which currently broadcasts to 45 countries including over 100 locations in the U.S. and has featured speakers such as Colin Powell, Jimmy Carter, and U2's Bono among many others. His speeches at the Leadership Summit this year were entitled "The High Drama of Decision-Making" and "Relentless."

He convened The Leadership Summit following a God-given prompting to help pastors develop their "Romans 12:8" spiritual gift of leadership in the context of their ministries. Since then, he has become a highly sought-after expert in equipping and training Christian leaders to transform individuals and their communities through the local church.

Held every August, The Leadership Summit attracts more than eighty thousand ministry and marketplace leaders in North America, and another twenty thousand to Global Leadership Summit each fall, which is broadcast in more than twenty countries such as Brazil, Germany, Ukraine, and South Africa.

Hybels is also the founding and senior pastor of Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Ill., with a weekend attendance of twenty thousand. He is chairman of the board for the Willow Creek Association, a not-for-profit fellowship of over twelve thousand like-minded churches located in forty-five countries.

Willow Creek Community Church began in 1975 when a ragtag team of young people gathered in a rented movie theater with a vision of turning irreligious people into fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ. Today, it is one of the most attended churches in North America. Drawing on well-honed wisdom acquired over the past thirty-two years, Hybels speaks and consults internationally, bringing to bear passionate style, relevant teaching, and cutting edge leadership.

Hybels is the best-selling author of more than twenty books, including Holy Discontent, Just Walk Across the Room, The Volunteer Revolution, Courageous Leadership, and classics such as Too Busy Not to Pray and Becoming a Contagious Christian. His newest release is Axiom: the Language of Leadership.

Hybels received a bachelor's degree in Biblical Studies and an honorary Doctorate of Divinity from Trinity College in Deerfield, Ill. He and his wife, Lynne, have two children and one grandson.

Tom Osborne
Dr. Thomas William "Tom" Osborne (born February 23, 1937 in Hastings, Nebraska) is a former head football coach for the Nebraska Cornhuskers and a former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Nebraska's 3rd congressional district. Tom Osborne grew up in Hastings, Nebraska. He was all-state in football and basketball, won the state discus throw in track, and was named the state's High School Athlete of the Year in 1955.

He attended Hastings College, quarterbacked the football team and was named the state's College Athlete of the Year in 1958 and 1959. Tom graduated in 1959 with a Bachelor of Arts in History from Hastings College, after which he played three seasons in the National Football League, one year with the San Francisco 49ers and two years with the Washington Redskins.

He joined Bob Devaney's football staff at the University of Nebraska in 1962 and prior to being named head football coach in 1973, was graduate assistant, receiver's coach and quarterback coach. He earned his Master of Arts in Educational Psychology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) in 1963 and a Doctorate in Educational Psychology there in 1965. Tom taught six years in the classroom at UNL prior to his current commitment. He also served in the Nebraska National Guard from 1960 to 1965.

Gallup Breakout Sessions
Breakout session topics will be Developing your Strengths™ led by Joe Cavanaugh, (pdf) Associate Partner of Gallup's Faith Practice, and Member Engagement™ led by Dr. Al Winseman, (pdf) Global Practice Leader for Faith Communities for Gallup, Inc. Utilizing research acquired from Gallup surveys over several decades, Cavanaugh and Winseman will share techniques on building and strengthening your team.

Advertise in Your Organization
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• General Conference Flyer (pdf) - 8.5 x 11 inches
• General Conference Flyer (pdf) - 8.5 x 5.5 inches
• Conference Powerpoint Slide (pdf) - 8.5 x 11 inches
• Conference Powerpoint Slide (ppt) - 8.5 x 11 inches

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