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Mike Burkesmith

After 30 years of varied business and ministry experience, Mike joined C12 Group as Area Chair for Portland-Vancouver.  His experience includes - 10 years in corporate management and marketing roles, including Business Unit Manager for TransTechnology Corp. and President of a direct marketing company - 10 years in government and ministry in roles such as CIO and Development Director with organizations such as Greater Portland PRC, Luis Palau Association, and the largest ESD in Oregon - 10 years consulting and helping business owners build their companies using best practice methods such as E-Myth Mastery and Full Spectrum Business Development This experience, combined with formal education and specialized post-graduate training in Enterprise Development, prepare Mike to help Christian CEOs, Presidents and Owners to build great businesses as they increase their ministry impact. Mike has seen first-hand the differences in organizations with and without a God-centered focus and brings an informed and practical perspective.  As a C12 Chair, Mike dedicates his gifts and experiences as a resource for business leaders.  Together, they learn from one another and from C12 proprietary business development resources, encourage one another, and hold each other accountable to take their business, and ministry, impact to the next level. Mike has served in local churches, teaching, leading worship, and facilitating small groups.  He has helped several non-profits to build their capacity for ministry, also.  Mike is married to Melody, has five children and one grandchild, and resides in Beaverton, Oregon.

Griff Lindell

For more than 40 years, Griff has served as a senior level marketing strategist and leader to established, reorganizing and emerging companies covering industries such as publishing, high-speed motion analysis, civil engineering, manufacturing, service providers and consulting firms. In each, he managed various sales, marketing, and strategy functions. Griff recently retired as the Dean of the Hoff School of Business at Corban University. His Serving-leader Attitude book was used as a text in the MBA class on leadership. He holds a Master’s in Education Administration, with post-graduate work in marketing, law, linguistics, and theatre. Griff is known as an expert at organizational and market clarity and credits his theater background for providing the foundational skill sets necessary to help companies collaborate more effectively (the script), resulting in the delivery of customer-centric thinking (delighting your audience), and yielding profitable results (the box-office). Griff believes that for a business to be effective the "corporate" heart (Values/Vision/Mission) must be in sync with the corporate "mouth" (marketing and sales). Griff has a unique ability to assist a company in articulating their purpose, goals, core values and strategy adding a biblical perspective – even in a secular setting. The results are energized, cohesive teams that can clearly communicate where the firm is going and how each person plays a role in implementing strategy. His management experience has led to insights he developed for his published materials including three books and a dozen booklets on business and leadership. He has served startup and emerging companies in a consultant capacity as VP of Marketing and COO. He is married to Margaret Ann (Richards) Lindell and they have three adult children, two grandchildren and, in 2018, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.