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Meet Your Keynote Speakers

This year's line up of keynote speakers is sure to inspire, ignite, and equip you to reach new heights!

Anthony Diehl

Anthony is the founder of Modus, a health and wellness coaching company, with deep roots in strength, resilience, and holistic health.

After transforming his own life — from overweight teenager to America's Strongest Man — he now helps others optimize their health and build strength that lasts. With experience coaching hundreds of athletes and lifestyle clients, Anthony's approach combines metabolic insight, nutrition, and strength training to support long-term vitality.

He lives in Lancaster with his wife of sixteen years, a newly minted teenage daughter, and two wild boys.

Gabe Pluguez

Gabe Pluguez is the founder of Leadership Fitness Co., a faith-based fitness movement helping Christian business owners get fit through biblical mindset shifts, sustainable nutrition lifestyles, Tailored training, and Christ-centered accountability.

Since 2019, Gabe has consulted over 5,000 men and built a seven-figure coaching business dedicated to helping men lose fat, build muscle, create better patterns of discipline, and honor God with their bodies.

He is a husband, father of one, and on a mission to help strengthen the leaders in the Kingdom of God.

George Hayworth

A combat veteran and Army officer, George deployed to Afghanistan in his twenties, leading soldiers through the kind of pressure that either breaks a man or reveals who he really is. He continues to serve today in the Army National Guard.

After leaving active duty, George spent nearly a decade as a sales executive in the global IT services industry, learning to lead and compete at the highest levels of corporate America. On paper, it looked like success. Underneath it all, George was still wrestling with the same question every person in that arena eventually faces: what am I actually here to do?

That question led him to executive coaching, where he now helps senior leaders find the same clarity of mission that combat and corporate life had forced onto him. He no longer chases achievement. He lives with purpose and helps others do the same. Today he leads that work as the Managing Partner of Precision Components LLC.

George is a proud husband and father. He lives in Clarksville, Tennessee, with his wife, Whitney, and their daughter, Rhealynn.

Nick Anderson

Nick Anderson is the CEO of OneAccord - a business consulting firm serving owners and executives of companies $25-100 Million in revenues and he is founder of Chosen Leader, a brand that supports the growth and development of leaders everywhere.

Anderson's book, Six-Word Lessons for Middle Managers was published in May 2022.

Anderson became an entrepreneur following a 25-year career in financial services and a lifetime full of challenge and experience.

Steve Carter

Steve Carter is the Lead Pastor at Christ Church of Oak Brook and is helping to champion the Wheaton College Billy Graham Center Preaching Institute to equip pastors on how to preach hospitable and transformational messages.

Steve hosts the Craft and Character Podcast, which ignites preachers to grow in their craft while always intentionally working to have their character lead the way.

He has also authored two best-selling books, Grieve, Breathe, Receive, and The Thing Beneath The Thing.

Steve lives outside Chicago with his wife, Sarah, and their two kids. When Steve isn’t hanging around with his family, friends, or church community, you will probably find him watching a University of Michigan football game.