C12 Forum in Central Texas

KYLE SETLIFF

I have a passion for encouraging and equipping followers of Jesus to live out their faith in an authentic way, fully integrated into every area of their lives. I have experience in various areas of the private and nonprofit sectors and a strong entrepreneurial sense. In leading a conglomerate of equipment dealerships and also a land investment company, I have had the opportunity to oversee hundreds of employees, navigate complex multi-level business issues and lead organizations through various mergers and acquisitions. For the past 12 years, I’ve had the honor of serving in leadership for Bible Study Fellowship. I am currently serving as the Teaching Leader and head of the Men’s Bible Study Fellowship (BSF) Class in New Braunfels. I am also the leader of a couples’ small group Bible Study at Oakwood Baptist Church, where I have been blessed to serve as Deacon. I grew up in Corpus Christi, Texas, where I was involved in my family’s farming operation from a very young age. I attended Texas A&M University and was involved in several leadership organizations during my time there. I have been married to my best friend, Lindsay, for 14 years and we have one son, Griffin (8), and three daughters, Presleigh (5), Tatum (3), and Sloane (10 months).

T: 361-765-1458

E: kyle.setliff@c12forums.com

MICHAEL HEFLIN

Michael leverages his over forty years as a high-tech industry businessman with his early career as a Pastor to challenge and equip senior executives to live out their faith while they build successful businesses. He has served as Chairman, CEO, Owner, COO, and Executive Vice President in public, private and not-for-profit companies. Michael guided four of the companies to lead their industries as well as served four publicly traded companies. His teams scaled to over 230 people with revenues above $95 million. He had the pleasure of building and aligning domestic and international executive teams. And two of his high-tech companies were successfully acquired. He has also served as a Chairman and advisor in not-for-profit organizations including RightNow Media. Over 15 years ago Michael had a conversation with an executive in a not-for-profit where he served as board Chairman that changed him. God made him fully aware that on Sunday we said our “work is worship” but we did not make clear how to actually do it. The question facing us is how we fully serve God while building a successful business. Today his passion is making clear what work as worship is to CEOs and Business Owners.

T: 512-695-0222

E: michael.heflin@c12forums.com

BO CARRINGTON

Bo Carrington, was most recently President and owner of BCA Executive Consultants. He brings more than 25-years of varied management and leadership experience to C12 and his board members, including a leadership vision shaped by two and a half decades of experience in the U.S. Air Force and working in and with high performing organizations. His passion has been and remains to bring out the best in organizations by helping leaders be the best they can be. Bo has served as a coach and advisor to leaders for almost 25 years, both as an internal resource while leading HR functions and as an external executive coach. His insight and data-driven approach to coaching has assisted many leaders at senior levels to grow through existing career barriers and has assisted many high potential leaders to grow to assume new and expanded roles. Bo’s list of coaching clients is spread across industries and professional levels and his active client list includes more than a dozen organizations, some of which involve engagements with multiple leaders. Bo’s approach to coaching is built around helping leaders and their organizations achieve a heightened level of ongoing self-awareness and intentional decision making that is aligned with who they are and who they want their organization to be. As a coach, Carrington works to help the executives develop their own self-sustaining systems for feedback to ensure continual growth without having to have an external coach. Raised mostly in a suburb of Jackson, Mississippi (those who know him say he really didn’t “grow up” until his mid-20’s), his dad was looking for discipline, and he was looking for adventure when he joined the Air Force as a medical technician, became part of an emergency medicine team, and a few years later became part of an aeromedical evacuation crew. He proudly served for over 10 years, including in the first Gulf War combat zone (we knew it as Desert Shield/Desert Storm). Carrington got his first real experience in intentional leadership from a tough-as-nails Chief Master Sergeant, and learned early on that voluntarily giving a superior performance to a leader was very different than performing out of fear of punishment. That type of intentional, influential leadership is what he has worked to inspire in his own firm and with his clients. Carrington’s Air Force service landed him in Texas, and he never left (he considers himself a Texan without the twang). He holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting (Hardin-Simmons), an MBA with an emphasis in International Business and Human Resource Development, and leadership experience in business sectors that include investment & insurance, transportation/logistics, retail and manufacturing. The most influential role model in his corporate life was a 30+ year iconic leader that needed some help with people skills – and not only got it, but applied it at that late stage of his career, shared it with those around him and brought even more success to the company. Carrington learned what it meant to coach and mentor others by being coached and mentored and most importantly how to keep from making things more complicated than they should be. His life philosophy is that most things in life aren’t overly complicated, they are simply just not easy. When he’s not chasing around his 11 and 18-year-olds, he’s either in the dojo continuing his fourth black belt journey, serving on the board of a non-profit he works with that assists veteran, their kids, and families across the United States or on the dance floor chasing his newly found passion for ballroom dance competition.

T: 210-216-1071

E: bo.carrington@c12forums.com

AARON BANKS

Aaron Banks is an experienced and energetic leader with a passion for developing people, enhancing business, and implementing faith in the workplace. With a servant leader mentality, Aaron enjoys arming others to live out their God-given purpose. As a distinguished military veteran, Aaron served his country honorably for over 20 years in the United States Air Force as a Cyberspace Operations Officer. In 1996, he left his hometown of Laurinburg, NC to attend the United States Air Force Academy where he earned his undergraduate degree in Business Management. His Air Force career includes many assignments around the globe, a magnitude of accolades and awards, but his most treasured moments came from leading over 1,200 members of the Armed Forces. In his roles as a military commander and executive-level leader, Aaron has led both small and large diverse organizations responsible for over $14B in assets through complex, fast-paced environments to achieve measurable results. He possesses a comprehensive background in leadership, information technology, talent management, personnel development, strategic planning, and organizational effectiveness. An avid learner and adapter, he has earned a Masters degree in Information Management Systems and multiple Information Technology certifications. Aaron has also launched a real estate investing business with his lovely bride of over 18 years, Erika. Aaron and Erika share in raising two energetic boys, Asa (11) and Aiden (2). He is also a group leader for Bible Study Fellowship, where he leads groups of 15 men a year through an in-depth study of God’s Word. As a former collegiate and Air Force boxing champion, Aaron also enjoys working out and supporting others to achieve fitness and health goals. He is now focused on his calling to serve business leaders in the Central Texas area who want success in their business, family, and overall stewardship through an eternal perspective.

T: 210-701-7285

E: aaron.banks@c12forums.com

ROBERT VOGEL

Robert Vogel has 35+ years’ experience leading teams and organizations of 1,000+ people. He comes to C12 as a skilled leader whose results reflect a Christ-centered servant leadership practice and bottom-line focus. His personal mission statement is “Through Christ, I make a positive difference in the lives of those around me and the lives of those I have yet to meet, or may never meet.” Robert’s extensive experience in team development, training, people, and systems has made him a key player in the south-central Texas business community. He is sought for being a producer with expertise in operations and program management, lean/continuous improvement initiatives, and multi-facility management. Robert is a proactive manager and keen problem-solver who has proven to be skilled at implementing viable solutions in demanding production settings. His strong strategic and tactical skills have turned around marginal business situations and led teams through technical and cultural change to produce strong business performance. His career has encompassed corporate for-profit and non-profit environments. A life-long learner, Robert attended the University of California-Sacramento and the University of Wyoming. Robert began his career with HEB Grocery and, after advancing throughout his 17-year tenure, started an extremely successful entrepreneurial niche “Just-in-Time” supply chain organization. Robert then transitioned into the non-profit arena, working with San Antonio Family Endeavors, to build business stakeholders and revenue streams for the purpose of employing people with disabilities. Robert became Christ’s bondservant at age 39 and has served his church in many leadership capacities, including pastoral coaching, trustee and elder roles. Robert resides in Boerne, a small town outside of San Antonio, Texas with his bride Teressa and their five children (Ryan, Ajay, Ashton, Elijah, and Janna). He has a passion and purpose to serve others for God’s glory since any other focus would be “chasing the wind” (Ecclesiastes).

T: 210-382-0870

E: robert.vogel@c12forums.com

BILL SITTER

William “Bill” Sitter is highly motivated and energized to team with Mike Sharrow and Robert Vogel to bring C12’s valuable offering to Christian business leaders in Central and South Texas. Bill brings a combination of business and non-profit ministry leadership spanning 50 years that encompasses domestic and international experience. With an MBA obtained at age 50, he is a lifelong learner who has also gained Board Certification as a Christian Executive Life Coach. Bill is sought after as a platform speaker, small group facilitator, and workshop presenter. He has authored dozens of nationally-publicized articles in the field of human resources and has published workbooks dealing with the application of Biblical principles in the arena of personal finances. His previous life coaching practice focused on multiple specialty areas that relate to topics relevant to C12 Members, including: Goal Achievement, Team Building, Priority and Time Management, Communications, Sales Techniques/Management; Leadership; Motivational Factors and Personality Styles, Human Resources – hiring and interviewing, Organizational Structures and Removing Roadblocks, and Financial Foundations for Individuals. Bill sees the opportunity to Chair C12 Groups in South Texas as a clear call from God. His background includes: large corporate sales and marketing experience gained with Caterpillar (US/Europe/Middle East) and domestic general management experience with International Harvester. He built a distribution network that successfully grew sales and profits while serving as National Sales Manager for a manufacturer of concrete batch plants and storage facilities. He served as President and General Manager of three different construction and mining equipment distribution companies and gained valuable leadership experience as an Army Captain. Prior to later graduate education and certifications, Bill earned a BA in Economics. He feels that his “street smarts” for business stem from real world successes and some “learning experiences”. His ability to contribute experience-based ideas has been greatly enhanced while completing a very successful small services firm start-up, which he led for 20 years, and from launching and leading a 20-year-old non-profit ministry. Bill and his wife of over 50 years, Maureen, moved to South Texas in 1986, and soon after accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. They live in Comal County on the edge of the Texas Hill Country and have two adult children and two grandchildren. Bill sees C12 as providing him the ideal career calling that allows him the opportunity to work with organizational leaders with the goal of seeing Jesus Christ exemplified in the marketplace.

T: 210-365-9824

E: bill.sitter@c12forums.com

DAN WALTERS

Dan Walters is an experienced business leader and improvement coach with a passion for helping other leaders and their teams align their work and their faith. He worked for 23 years with Saudi Aramco (formerly ARAMCO), the world’s largest producing oil company, as Chief of Staff to various executives. He was responsible for strategic planning, leadership development, and large-scale change initiatives. He is a proven, gifted facilitator who has helped diverse executive teams to routinely meet stretch goals, competing objectives, and challenging deadlines. For 10 years, Dan served healthcare clients as a hands-on change management consultant helping physicians and executives plan and execute improvements to patient care, clinical processes, and professional society governance. While working for ARAMCO in Saudi Arabia, during Operation Desert Storm, Dan met a man that inspired a change in the direction and intensity of his career. He heard a US Army First Sergeant say, “I have learned to be a First Sergeant and a Christian, too.” Seeing a man that had connected his Sundays and Mondays recalibrated Dan’s focus from just pursuing business excellence to also pursing alignment of work and faith. As a result, Dan’s inspirational approach to leadership development instills a level of encouragement that followers of Christ can not only run great businesses, but they can also connect their work and faith in a meaningful fashion that’s unique to their chosen field of business. Dan has a degree in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA from Texas A&M University. Dan and Lynda, his high school sweetheart, have been married 50 years and have six grandchildren. They live in Austin, Texas.

T: 512-554-7777

E: dan.walters@c12forums.com

JOEL GUNN

Joel has been exposed to teamwork, leadership and management in his early experience at a Fortune 500 company. He is a seasoned corporate trainer on problem solving, team building, master planning and personality profiling. Joel operated a consulting company primarily serving the manufacturing sector which rapidly grew to clients such as GE Aerospace, Ford, HP, Harris, Alcatel, Wal-Mart, and many others. Joel is a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt who used his acquired skill set to train on techniques to improve efficiency, streamline operations, and implement technology. This combination resulted in his clients reporting millions of dollars of positive benefit. He is a native Texan whose family’s rich history in ministering goes back three generations. Joel’s primary passion in life has always been his relationship with Jesus Christ. He grew up in a family of ministers, but pursued a career in business and couldn’t wait to get out into the “real world”. Several years ago, Joel decided to earn a degree in ministry and pursue ordination. He currently holds degrees in Electronics Engineering, Occupational Education, and Ministry. Joel is married to his first and only girlfriend, Christina, and they have 3 children (son Nathaniel and daughters Rachel and Noel). He and his family attend Christian Family Church International where he serves as a Volunteer Pastor. Recently Joel has been teaching various topics on faith and business in CFCI Bible School bachelor’s program. In his spare time, you’ll find Joel reading the latest book in his stack, hanging out with the family, or enjoying his hobby of photography.

T: 210-289-5635

E: joel.gunn@c12forums.com

RICH GLOMSKI

Rich Glomski has over 35 years of business advisory experience in a variety of industries including financial services, energy, telecommunications, hospitality, manufacturing and the public sector. Most recently, Rich served as President and owner of The S Three Company, an 18 year-old management consulting firm, based in Texas. Formerly, he served as Partner-in-Charge of management consulting in the Houston office of Grant Thornton, as well as time with KPMG-Peat Marwick and J.P. Morgan/Chase Bank. He has vast experience with large scale organizational capability improvement, merger/acquisition integration, change management, large management information systems implementations, operational improvement, and business re-engineering. Rich has served as a senior business advisor to numerous leadership teams at Chevron, Shell Chemicals, British Petroleum, Clear Channel Communications, several large regional Texas-based commercial banks, and the Houston Independent School District. An experienced executive coach, Rich has assisted business leaders with managerial transition, enhancing organizational performance, team communication, and how to lead major change initiatives. Rich, for several years, has been a volunteer executive coach for MBA students enrolled in the Mays Business School at Texas A&M University as well. Rich is also active in his community, working with elderly outreach programs, missions, and as mentor to teens in foster care.

T: 832-265-8883

E: rich.glomski@c12forums.com

RUSSELL GRIGSBY

Russell is passionate about encouraging others to fulfill the destiny on their lives. Through one on one settings, Russell helps men and women discover what they are designed to do and then to go after their calling. After receiving an MBA from SMU in 1982, Russell began his career in commercial banking in Austin, Texas. After six years in banking, he joined a series of startup companies as the CFO. He discovered that he loved the startup process and began to start and run his own companies. Since 1993, he has run companies in financial services, biotech, real estate and mining. He loves the process of building a new business and creating a vision for its success. Russell is excited to join C12 and call on his long entrepreneurial career to help others accomplish their God-given dreams. He loves meeting with people one on one to hear about their stories and their calling. Along the way, Russell has been in a passionate pursuit for intimacy with God. He has traveled extensively around the world on mission trips where he has seen the kingdom of God at work. He has been actively involved in his church as an elder, teacher and prayer minister. As a follower of Jesus since 1967, Russell has had a very deep relationship with God that continues to grow daily. He is actively involved with the Austin Healing Room and Ransomed Heart Ministries. He is a retreat speaker and loves to teach on living with greater power and authority as a believer in Jesus. Russell and his wife Gina live in Southwest Austin. They share 5 grown sons and a daughter. Russell loves to snow ski, is an avid reader, and spends some of his spare time doing handyman projects around the house.

T: 512-917-8659

E: russell.grigsby@c12forums.com

ROB WAINNER

Robert (Rob) Wainner is a co-founding partner of multiple award winning companies, which include: Confluent Health, Inc. (a coast to coast physical therapy private practice and educational company with over 500 clinics and multiple University partnerships); Texas Physical Therapy Specialists, P.C. (a multi-location private practice); and Evidence-In-Motion, LLC (an evidence-based educational company). Significant achievements include: Top 50 Places To Work (San Antonio, Austin), Top 50 fastest growing companies in Louisville, and the Inc. 500/5000 list from 2009 – 2012.

Dr. Wainner designed and built the leadership development programs, practice patterns, and coaching culture systems across these companies and served in the role of Director of Talent and Leadership Development and internal Executive Coach. He is also founder and President of Coach 4 Leadership, LLC, an executive & professional coaching and consulting business.

Rob’s unique and diverse professional background includes extensive experience in business, talent and leadership development, executive coaching, research, education and health care. As an Air Force Biomedical Science Corps Officer for 20yrs, he led clinical teams, research programs, faculty and numerous intrapreneurial DoD enterprises while accruing some of the highest level awards in his field and publishing over 40 peer-reviewed manuscripts.

Upon exiting his companies in 2021, Rob undertook a year long sabbatical of spiritual and intellectual renewal. This included completing the Colson Fellows program in 2021-22 and a self-designed curriculum from Hillsdale College
focusing on Western civilization and worldview, philosophy, theology and US civics related courses.

Hobbies include reading, learning, gardening, land shaping with a skid-steer, and creating beautiful structures and outdoor spaces. He has been wonderfully married to his wife Diane for 39 years. They have been blessed with 6 children and 6 grandchildren (so far), and make their home in Berghiem, TX.

Dr. Wainner holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh, is a graduate of the UTD Jindal School of Business’s Executive and Professional Coaching program and earned the PCC credential from the International Coach Federation.

T: 210-473-8664

E: rob.wainner@c12forums.com

PHYLLIS SNODGRASS

Phyllis Snodgrass has been a leader in community engagement for more than two decades and has been firmly committed to positive change for families and communities in Austin and throughout Texas. In addition, she has supported the state’s thriving business culture in leadership roles at multiple Chambers of Commerce.

In her final role with the Chamber of Commerce, she served as the Chief Operating Officer for the Austin Chamber of Commerce. At the Austin Chamber, Phyllis oversaw multiple departments and a large team; created innovative membership development models that powered membership growth and increased the Chamber’s public profile and volunteer involvement; and created internal and external messaging for the organization.

Before joining the Austin Chamber, she was the President/CEO of Chambers of Commerce in San Marcos, Victoria, and Athens, TX. In addition, she served in a leadership role for the Texas Association of Businesses. Phyllis has extensive experience in finance and accounting, having worked as an accountant and financial controller for several businesses before joining the nonprofit world. She also ran her own accounting business, showing an entrepreneurial aptitude that has served her well as a leader.

For 7 years, Phyllis served as Chief Executive Officer for Austin Habitat for Humanity, turning her talents to one of the most critical issues facing the Austin area: affordable housing. Phyllis became CEO of Austin Habitat in 2015 and has led the organization to ongoing growth, allowing Austin Habitat to continue supporting more families in need despite challenges, including the Covid-19 pandemic, natural disasters, and spiraling homebuilding costs. Under her leadership, Austin Habitat has expanded into a five-county area. It has increased the provision of high-quality, affordable new homes, critical home repairs for seniors and other homeowners struggling to remain independent, and HUD-certified housing counseling that empowers community members to become successful homeowners and reach other life goals.

Phyllis’s leadership has increased the community awareness and positive perception of the already-strong Habitat for Humanity brand in Central Texas when Habitat’s mission to produce affordable homes and raise hope in the community is more needed than ever. During Phyllis’s tenure as CEO, Austin Habitat has faced enormous pressures in an increasingly cost-burdened market. As a result, Phyllis and her leadership team focused on ensuring sustainable, diversified funding streams to support Austin Habitat’s growth in Austin and expansion throughout the region.

Phyllis worked with organizational leadership and outside partners to develop denser housing models for the Habitat program, including row homes, townhomes, and condominiums. She also oversaw the expansion of the organization’s HomeBase subsidiary, working with private developers who wish to provide affordable housing but do not have the infrastructure to recruit and qualify low- and moderate-income families. In addition, she expanded its relationships with local homebuilders to support additional housing growth in the area.

Phyllis and her team at Austin Habitat have long recognized that soaring land and construction costs and stagnant local land-use policies inhibit the ability for any developer, nonprofit or private, to produce affordable homes in this area. The affiliate’s focus on policy-level work was critical to creating systems change to create a positive impact beyond the Habitat partner families. Austin Habitat significantly advanced its community advocacy during Phyllis’s time as CEO, working to ensure better housing policies to provide more high-quality homes for all community members. In addition, Austin Habitat has supported increased public funding support for affordable development and advocated strongly for land-use reforms to remove outdated barriers to affordable housing creation.

Phyllis was the face of the organization’s advocacy, appearing in numerous local media outlets, testifying at various levels of government to advocate for better policy, and working with internal and external stakeholders to emphasize the importance of systematic change around affordable housing in Central Texas. During Phyllis’s tenure, Austin Habitat also advanced solutions like deed restrictions that ensured long-term affordability on all homes sold through the Habitat program.

Her leadership has helped Austin Habitat significantly expand its ReStore program to support affiliate growth by providing unrestricted funding and benefiting the community and the environment. Austin Habitat operates three ReStores in Central Texas, including the flagship store at Ben White and South 1st, the #1 U.S. ReStore for gross receipts since 2018. The team also introduced a contactless e-commerce store during the pandemic that continues to generate substantial revenues. Finally, Phyllis and her team have recently secured a site for a 4th ReStore location in Pflugerville as part of a planned expansion to five stores.

In addition to her work with Austin Habitat, Phyllis is a Certified Chamber of Commerce Executive and graduate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute for Organization Management. In addition, she is a member of the Austin Area Research Organization.

Phyllis Snodgrass has won several awards for her leadership and innovation. She has received numerous awards from her decades of leadership at the helm of local chambers of commerce across Texas which includes receiving the Executive Leadership Award from the Greater Austin Chamber in 2018. The Austin Business Journal named her a 2018 Profiles in Power Central Texas Women of Influence and in 2019 CEO of the Year. In 2022 she was honored by ULI Austin with their Vision Award. Phyllis was awarded The Austin Black Business Journal & Community News Magazine’s Top 10 Diversity Champions of 2022. In addition, Phyllis is an honoree in the Inaugural Austin Women Leading Real Estate Event in fall of 2022. Lastly, Mayor Steve Adler awarded Phyllis Snodgrass with a Key to the City of Austin in September of 2022 for her hard work and dedication in helping pave the way to provide more affordable housing and creating lasting change in central Texas.

Phyllis and her husband Tim reside in Wimberley, Texas where they attend the Austin Ridge Church’s Dripping Springs campus. Together they have 4 adult children, Aaron, Amanda, Ben and Mallary as well as their son-in-law, Will and grandkids, Foster and Felicity.

T: 512-757-5715

E: phyllis.snodgrass@c12forums.com

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KYLE SETLIFF

MICHAEL HEFLIN

BO CARRINGTON

AARON BANKS

ROBERT VOGEL

BILL SITTER

DAN WALTERS

JOEL GUNN

RICH GLOMSKI

RUSSELL GRIGSBY

ROB WAINNER

PHYLLIS SNODGRASS

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