Elan Babchuck serves as the executive vice president at Clal, the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, and the founding executive director of Glean Network, which partners with Columbia Business School. He was ordained in 2012, and earned his MBA that year. He is the co-author of Picking Up the Pieces: Leadership After Empire (2024, Fortress Press), and contributed to Meaning Making – 8 Values That Drive America’s Newest Generations (2020, St. Mary’s Press). He has delivered keynotes at stages ranging from TEDx to the US Army’s General Officer Symposium, published in The Atlantic, The Guardian, Washington Post, and Religion News Service, and has a column for The Wisdom Daily.

Kathleen McShane is director of learning and innovation for the Texas Methodist Foundation. She is an ordained Elder in the California-Nevada Conference of the United Methodist Church, where she led four congregations and served for eight years as vice president for institutional advancement at Pacific School of Religion. Before attending seminary and beginning her life in ministry, she was a civil litigator, practicing law in the San Francisco Bay Area. As she led a large church in Los Altos (Silicon Valley), California, McShane co-founded the Changemaker Initiative, which is now a small national movement of churches committed to empowering lay people to become compassion-driven changemakers like Jesus. That work has led her toward multiple projects that are re-imagining leadership for the church of the future. It also led her to writing Picking Up the Pieces: Leadership After Empire (2024, Fortress Press) with her friend and hero Rabbi Elan Babchuck.