Summit Week 2025

Wednesday, 6 to Friday,
8 August 2025

67 Algonquin Rd, South Barrington, IL 60010, United States

You Are Invited

The flagship event that kicks off the GLS25 season takes place in August 2025 – and you have the opportunity to join The Global Leadership Summit live in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Every year, hundreds of delegates from across the world join thousands of American guests for the Main GLS event hosted at Willow Creek Church, South Barrington. And you can attend online or in-person.

Enjoy a time to network with other like-minded leaders as you receive insights from world-class faculty presenting fresh and actionable ideas to transform how you lead and increase your influence and impact.

Additional opportunities to connect and explore ways to grow this robust leadership development movement worldwide are planned – especially for our international guests.

At GLS25, you will be equipped to lead right where you are. We hope to see you there.

The Summit Week Experience

From Wednesday, 6 August to Friday, 8 August 2025, several events, experiences and engagement opportunities are being planned. We will provide more information as it becomes available and confirmed, but we hope to offer our Country Leaders a Strategy Day, and our International guests the opportunity to participate in an International Partner Gathering once again. And we loved to conclude our time together with an After-Party. Keep watching this space for updates.

(Only GLS25 will be available to stream and attend online).

The Global Leadership Summit 2025 (GLS25)

*Available to attend online or in-person

Taking place on Thursday, 7 August and Friday, 8 August 2025, leaders can expect to be inspired and equipped by world-class faculty that will bring fresh and actionable content that can be readily applied. 

Craig Groeschel

Founder & Senior Pastor, Life.Church; Best-Selling Author

Globally recognized as a leader of leaders, Craig Groeschel is the founder and Senior Pastor of Life.Church, rated by Glassdoor as the #1 Place to Work for two consecutive years under his leadership. Known for their missional approach to leveraging the latest technology, Life.Church is the creator of the YouVersion Bible App—installed on more than half a billion unique devices worldwide. He is the host of the top-ranked “Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast.” A New York Times’ bestselling author, his latest book is “Think Ahead: 7 Decisions You Can Make Today for the God-Honoring Life You Want Tomorrow.”

Bradley Rapier

Founder, Groove Theory; Award-Winning Choreographer

Bradley Rapier is an award-winning choreographer with over three decades of experience in dance, production and leading teams and talent from Hollywood to Broadway. He has made guest appearances on “The Ellen Show,” “So You Think You Can Dance” and “Dancing with the Stars.” He is also creator of the acclaimed Off-Broadway production “GROOVALOO,” creative director of L.A.’s Cantinas Arts Foundation, and has collaborated with the Tony-winning directors of “Hamilton” and “Jersey Boys” multiple times. Bradley developed Groove Theory, a framework which helps leaders create atmospheres where productivity, creativity, and well-being soar. His first book, “Step in the Circle,” is set to be released spring 2025.

James Hewitt, Ph.D.

Human Performance Scientist; Author

James Hewitt, who has a doctorate in [field of study], is a human performance scientist who provides some of the world’s top-performing businesses with science-backed strategies to achieve sustainable high-performance. Combining firsthand experience as a full-time racing cyclist with groundbreaking research, Hewitt integrates endurance sports strategies with insights from neuroscience, physiology and organizational psychology to reveal a future where wellbeing fuels business success. Hewitt has helped some of the world’s top-performing leaders and businesses, including Formula One teams and Fortune 500 companies.

Tasha Eurich, Ph.D

Organizational Psychologist; Researcher; Bestselling Author

Tasha Eurich is an organizational psychologist, researcher and New York Times bestselling author whose mission is helping people thrive in an ever-changing world. With a PhD in Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Eurich has been recognized as the world’s leading self-awareness coach and communication expert, working with clients like Google, Salesforce, the NBA, Nestlé and the White House Leadership Development Program. As principal of The Eurich Group — a boutique firm helping executives transform when stakes are high — she is a truth teller to some of the world’s most powerful people. She’s written three books, “Bankable Leadership,” “Insight” (which famed Wharton professor Adam Grant calls one of the three books he recommends most often), and most recently, “Shatterproof: How to Thrive in a World of Constant Chaos (And Why Resilience Alone Isn’t Enough).”

Erica Dhawan

Leading Authority on 21st Century Teamwork, Collaboration and Innovation; Bestselling Author

Erica Dhawan is an internationally recognized authority on 21st-century teamwork, collaboration and innovation. Named by Thinkers50 as the “Oprah of Management Thinkers,” Dhawan shares innovative strategies to unlock the collective power of teams, build a culture of trust across any distance and create authentic engagement to ensure competitiveness. Considered one of the management thinkers most likely to shape the future of business, Dhawan frequently appears in Harvard Business Review, Fast Company and Wall Street Journal. She is the author of two books: “Get Big Things Done: The Power of Connectional Intelligence” and “Digital Body Language: How to Build Trust and Connection, No Matter the Distance.”

Gabriel Salguero

Pastor, The Gathering Place; President, National Latino Evangelical Coalition

The Rev. Gabriel Salguero is pastor of The Gathering Place, a multi-ethnic Assemblies of God congregation in Orlando, Florida. Salguero is also the president and founder of the National Latino Evangelical Coalition, a coalition of several thousand evangelical congregations in the United States. Salguero has served on the White House Faith-Based Advisory Council and has been named as one of the nation’s most prominent Latino evangelical leaders by the New York Times, CNN Español and NBC Universal. In addition, his leadership on issues of young male education and criminal justice reform has been featured by the Discovery Channel and the Oprah Winfrey Network.

Partner Gathering
2025 (IPG25)

We will once again offer our International Guests and Partners the opportunity to join us for the International Partner Gathering on Wednesday, August 6. Aimed towards our goal of serving more pastors, churches and kingdom-minded leaders, the programming, content, and discussions will be planned to accommodate such. More info to follow.

International Summit Week Close-Out and After-Party Experience

After the conclusion of GLS25, a closing networking and celebration experience will take place for all international guests as we reflect on an inspiring Summit Week. All international guests are welcome.

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