Imagination Summit

Dan has served as President and Chief Operating Officer at the $3.5 billion Chick-fil-A since 2001 and has worked for the company for over 40 years. Dan began his career at Chick-fil-A at age 9 as he sang songs for customers and did radio commercials for the chain's original restaurant. Today, Chick-fil-A is one of the nation's largest family-owned quick-service restaurant chains. Dan loves impacting the lives of others and says, “Regardless of my title, I actually work in Customer Service – and with more than 1,500 Chick-fil-A restaurants led by more than 60,000 team members, operators and corporate staff, I've got a lot of customers to serve!” Chick-fil-A is as much about people as it is about food and rather than lead from his corporate office in Atlanta, Cathy chooses to spend the majority of his time traveling to the chain’s growing family of restaurants and interacting with Chick-fil-A’s committed team of restaurant operators and team members. Dan is a husband, dad, musician, gardener, athlete, biker, pilot, Sunday school teacher and non-profit board member.

Lillie Turner is a pioneer member of the Emerging Technologies Group, Cisco’s highly acclaimed internal ventures organization. As Director of Operations, she leads and designs the business operations infrastructure for early stage business units on their quest to become Cisco’s next $1B business, while providing consultative services to shape strategy and institutionalize best practices appropriate for the business life cycle stage and market maturity. Lillie has been instrumental in driving strategy execution for Cisco’s corporate video strategy and has led multiple engagements with high profile customers, government agencies and public service organizations.

Prior to her role at Cisco, Lillie led numerous teams at Pacific Bell and Synopsys, Inc. driving strategic business transformation initiatives in Marketing, Professional Services, HR and Customer Service. Her 10 year tenure in IT included establishing a Program Management Office and successfully managing the development and implementation of new technology applications. Lillie holds a bachelors degree in Economics from UC Berkeley and has held the coveted PMP designation from the Project Management Institute. She is active in her local public school district and youth co-curricular activities. Lillie is happily married and the mother of 4 children.

Jeff Monday is the Account Executive for Apple HIED for Southern California. In his role, Jeff is responsible for creating programs and solutions across curriculum. Jeff has presented keynotes and led workshops around the world, which focus on student-generated content. Jeff also works with educators and education leaders who are interested in creating programs focused on integrating media arts and communication technologies into their learning environments.

Paul Kim is Chief Technology Officer and Assistant Dean for Stanford University School of Education. His courses focus on contextualized innovations in education, mobile empowerment design, and enterprising higher education systems. He is currently one of the senior researchers for Programmable Open Mobile Internet, an NSF project to develop and evaluate ubiquitous wireless mobile computing and interactive systems for K-20 formal and informal learning and assessment scenarios. He is also working with numerous international organizations in developing mobile empowerment solutions for extremely underserved communities in developing countries. In the higher education space, he advises investment bankers and technology ventures focused on e-learning, knowledge management, and mobile communication solutions. He has a Ph.D. degree in Educational Technology and previously served as Chairman of the Board for Intercultural Institute of California, Executive Director of Information Technology for University of Phoenix, and Vice President & CIO for Vatterott College.

Jason is the founder and CEO of RethinkBooks.com, a dynamic social e-book company which focuses on engaging and interactive content. With more than 10 years of technology and executive experience, Jason Illian is a visionary in the mobile and social new media space. Having raised over $30 million for new business ventures, Jason has a passion for taking great ideas and making them businesses. His strategic thinking has helped corporations, organizations, non-profits, churches, and leaders be more innovative. He is also the former CEO of Big Jump Media (godtube.com and tangle.com), a Christian video network that had over 4 million monthly users.

Jason is also a published author and nationally-renown speaker. Jason has presented at the Goldman Sachs Technology & Internet Conference, the Credit Suisse Global Media and Communications Convergence Conference, and hundreds of other organizations. He has been featured on ABC, The New York Times, and done numerous radio interviews, from Mancow to Laura Ingraham. He has authored three published books, including a book called MySpace MyKids, which helped parents understand and navigate the world of social networks.

Jason graduated Magna Cum Laude from Texas Christian University with a BBA in International Finance. He continued his education with TCU and the London School of Economics, held the distinguished honor of being named one of the top 20 students in America by USA Today, was a Rhodes scholar finalist, and was an NCAA Academic All-American while being captain of the TCU football team.

“Moe”, is a dynamic, seasoned high tech senior executive who rose up from her roots as a computer whiz and made a name for herself in the telecommunications industry. As a high-powered executive for such companies as AT&T and Motorola, she has traveled the world, clinched deals, master-minded innovation for over 25 years. She was the first female CEO in faith based publisher Zondervan's 77-year history where she served as President and CEO and worked closely with their parent company HarperCollins Publishers on strategic planning and cooperative operations initiatives. She earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and master's degrees in computer science and management from Northwestern University.

Her high tech roles included Senior Vice President, Wireless: Office of the Chairman at Dell, Senior VP and General Manager of Strategic Marketing at Motorola, numerous positions at AT&T and Bell Laboratories, and led their multibillion dollar international Electronic Switching Systems and Intelligent Network Businesses. She has served on multiple corporate boards including Media Arts Group and Broadcom as well as several non-profit boards, including the Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies (C-PET), Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA) and Trinity International University.

Moe is working on her Masters of Divinity program at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. She is the published author of Mother Leads Best, 50 Women Who Are Changing The Way Organizations Define Leadership which details the positive impact of motherhood on senior executive women.

Steve Mihaylo is a successful telecom entrepreneur. He was the founder and Chairman of Inter-Tel, Inc. a $450 million manufacturer of voice and data network equipment for small to mid-size businesses worldwide. Steve is a graduate of Cal State Fullerton’s College of Business and Economics. Steve believes that the future of the United States, the vitality of its economy and the well-being of its population depends on leaders who are well prepared through affordable quality education—business leaders that in turn contribute to the community by providing a “hand up” to future leaders. Mihaylo’s philanthropic approach focuses on Young People and Education and his contributions drive efforts that are aimed at building self-reliance and self-esteem. His beliefs have had a very tangible outgrowth as he became the primary benefactor of the Steven G. Mihaylo College of Business and Economics and recently he contributed $25,000 to Biola University students to participate in The Crexendo Website Competition, which seeks to nurture and teach students real-world skills and provide digital tools to help them succeed post-graduation.

An internationally known writer and speaker, Phil Cooke has produced media programming in more than 40 countries around the world. In the process, has been shot at, survived two military coups, fallen out of a helicopter, and in Africa, been threatened with prison. And during that time – through his company Cooke Pictures in Burbank, California – he’s helped some of the largest non-profit organizations in the world navigate periods of dramatic disruption and change. He’s also a founding partner in the commercial production company TWC Films, which produces national advertising for some of the largest companies in the country. TWC Films produced two TV commercials for the Super Bowl in 2008 and was selected to unveil the revolutionary new electric Chevrolet Volt.

According to former CNN journalist Paula Zahn, Phil is rare – a working producer in Hollywood with a Ph.D. in Theology. He’s appeared on MSNBC, CNBC, CNN, and his work has been profiled in the New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal. His book: “Branding Faith: Why Some Churches and Non-Profits Impact the Culture and Others Don’t” is changing the way non-profit and religious organizations use the media to tell their story. And his new book “Jolt!: Get the Jump on a World That’s Constantly Changing.” shares his secrets of making today’s culture of disruption and change work for you. He’s lectured at universities like Yale, University of California at Berkeley, UCLA, and is an adjunct professor at the King’s College & Seminary, and Biola University.