Thursday, June 4

8:00 - 9:00 AM Registration Check-in and Coffee

9:00 AM Welcome with Reed Sheard and Gayle Beebe

9:15 AM Tyler VanderWeele: “Human Flourishing and the Global Flourishing Study," a high-level overview of the project with several implications noted including Academic Flourishing, religious communities and flourishing, and forgiveness and flourishing, followed by a discussion and audience Q&A with Tyler VanderWeele and Gayle Beebe

10:45 AM Break

11:00 AM David Brooks: "How Culture Change Happens," followed by a discussion and audience Q&A with David Brooks, Tyler VanderWeele and Gayle Beebe

12:00 PM Buffet Lunch (Plaza del Sol/Rotunda)

1:00 PM Welcome Back and Overview with Reed Sheard

1:15 PM Robert B. Tucker: "Leading and Flourishing in an Age of Acceleration"

2:00 PM David Brooks: "How to Fall in Love," followed by a discussion and audience Q&A with David Brooks and Gayle Beebe

3:15 PM Break

3:45 PM Panel Discussion on Human Flourishing: Blake Kent, Carmel Saad, Smaranda Lawrie, Gayle Beebe and Tyler VanderWeele, followed by audience Q&A

4:45 PM Break and Networking

5:30 PM Buffet Dinner (Plaza del Sol/Rotunda)

7:00 PM David Brooks: "What Christian Humanism Offers the World and Why It Matters"

Friday, June 5

7:00 AM Continental Breakfast (Ballroom Foyer)

8:15 AM Welcome with Reed Sheard

8:30 AM Gayle Beebe: "Intelligence, Creativity and Moral Imagination: Cultivating the Dispositions That Lead 
to Personal Effectiveness and Enduring Impact"

9:15 AM Susan Cain: "A Quiet Revolution: Changing How we Work, Lead and Innovate," followed by a discussion and audience Q&A with Susan Cain and Gayle Beebe

10:30 AM Break

10:45 AM Steve Porter: "Why A Good Person Is So Hard to Find: Virtue, Human Flourishing and the Hidden Benefit of Faith."

11:30 AM Boxed Lunch (Pick Up in Foyer, Dine in Ballroom)

12:00 PM Zack Kass: "The Next RenAIssance: AI and the Expansion of Human Potential," followed by a discussion and audience Q&A with Jack Kass, Gayle Beebe and Reed Sheard

1:15 PM Dallas Willard Research Center Book Award

1:30 PM Tyler VanderWeele: “A Theology of Health: Wholeness and Human Flourishing”

2:15 PM Gayle D. Beebe: Westmont’s Next Steps with the Human Flourishing Program

2:30 PM Conference Concludes