John Onwuchekwa serves as the North American Senior Director for Thought Leadership and Innovation at Redeemer City to City. He holds a Doctorate of Ministry in Church Leadership and Community Witness from Emory University’s Candler School of Theology with a focus on grief, storytelling, and cultivating virtues. John’s abiding belief is that tragedy doesn’t ruin anyone: hopelessness does. A former church planter and pastor with sixteen years of practical ministry experience, John brings a wealth of hard-won wisdom to everything he does. As an entrepreneur, speaker, author, and storyteller, he’s committed to bringing beauty into the world by building the best teams on the planet. John lives, works and worships in the Historic West End of Atlanta with his wife Shawndra and daughter Ava.

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