
Thank you for registering for the Content Refresh!
You will have the chance to participate in worship, plenary sessions and workshops, as well as breakfast and lunch. Below you’ll find the schedule, information on our speakers, and the form to indicate your preferred workshop. If you have questions, please email ironsharpeningiron@ptsem.edu.
Available Starting at 8 a.m. | Breakfast | Erdman Center Kiosk |
8:30 – 9:15 a.m. | Opening Worship | Gambrell Room, Scheide Hall |
9:30 – 12:30 p.m. | Plenary Morning Session: Design Thinking | Part 1 | Erdman Center | Cooper |
12:40 – 1:40 p.m. | Lunch | Erdman Center | Clarke, Sunroom, Lawn |
2:00 – 3:30 p.m. | Plenary Afternoon Session: Design Thinking | Part 2 | Erdman Center l Cooper |
5:30 – 6:00 p.m. | Wine Service Begins | Break | McKay | Main Lounge |
6:00 – 7:30 p.m. | Dinner + Panel Conversation with Pastors in Residence | McKay | Main Lounge |
8 a.m. | Breakfast | Erdman Center Kiosk |
8:30 – 9:00 a.m. | Morning Worship | Seminary Chapel |
9:30 – 11:00 a.m. | Every Plan Starts with a Great Idea: Creativity Workshops Please make your workshop selection below! | Erdman Center | Cooper, Clarke Adams House | Living Room |
11:30 – 12:30 p.m. | Lunch | Erdman Center | Clarke, Sunroom, Lawn |
1:00 – 4:00 p.m. | Plenary Session: Strategic Planning | Erdman Center l Cooper |
8 a.m. | Breakfast | Erdman Center Kiosk |
8:30 – 9:00 a.m. | Morning Worship | Seminary Chapel |
12:30 – 1:30 p.m. | Lunch | Erdman Center l Clarke, Sunroom, Lawn |
5:30 – 6:30 p.m. | Interview with Priya Parker | Library l Theron Room |
6:30 p.m. | Champagne Reception | Erdman Center |
9:00 – 10:00 a.m. | Closing Service | Gambrell Room | Scheide Hall |
10:00 a.m. | Breakfast – Jammin’ Crepes Food Truck | Erdman Center |
3:30 p.m. | Bus Pick-up for Rides to NYC | Library Parking Lot |
5:30 – 7 p.m. | Party at the Glass Ceilling | Glass Ceiling l NOMAD, NYC |
Plenary Speakers and Workshops

KAREN HOLD is the founder and CEO of innovation strategy consulting firm, Experience Labs. A Procter & Gamble-trained brand marketer, Karen saw firsthand how P&G drove revenue and profit growth with innovation. With over 25 years of experience, Karen has consulted for dozens of Fortune 500 companies including AARP, AT&T, Alcatel-Lucent, Audi, Chick-fil-A, Cisco, John Hancock, Mercedes, Nokia, NEC, and Porsche. She is passionate about building creative capacity in individuals, organizations and cities.
Prior to forming Experience Labs, Karen was co-founder of Broadband Publishing, where she built sales through innovative marketing partnerships with Forbes and BusinessWeek magazines. Karen’s first book, written with Jeanne Liedtka and Jessica Eldridge, Experiencing Design – The Innovator’s Journey, was published by Columbia Business School Publishing in July 2021.
Karen is a graduate of Duke University and Georgetown’s McDonough Graduate School of Business. She is the Director of DT:DC, a 5,200 member MeetUp group in Washington, DC. She is a Visiting Executive Lecturer at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business and a Visiting Professor at Ecole des Ponts in Paris, France and Casablanca, Morocco and Boston College in Boston, Massachusetts.

JENNIFER LOBENHOFER is the founder of JSL Community Strategies. She guides mission-driven organizations in envisioning, planning, achieving, and measuring their greatest imaginable impact on the communities they serve. She has more than 20 years of experience providing capacity-building education, facilitation, and consulting to organizations in the public and nonprofit sectors, and her current consulting practice focuses on providing strategic planning and program evaluation support to nonprofit organizations.
Two decades ago, Jennifer began her career examining the outcomes of pilot programs demonstrating promising new responses to affordable housing and community development needs. She then directed a statewide community and economic development training and advising program for local government officials. Those combined experiences led her to the realization that nonprofit organizations engage in the most meaningful policy implementation, innovation, and “heavy lifting” of creating real social change in communities, and that they all too frequently face significant capacity challenges in maximizing their impact. Since then, Jennifer has dedicated herself to the belief that the greatest good can only be accomplished if it is done well, and she has built her consulting practice on that foundational philosophy.
Jennifer holds a Master of City and Regional Planning degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She currently lives in Thousand Oaks, California, where she enjoys choral singing, live theatre, wine tasting, and creating handmade greeting cards.
WORKSHOP LEADERS
Please make sure to indicate you’re preferred workshop using the embedded form at the bottom of this page.
- Creatio Divina with Carmelle Beaugelin: CreatioDivina (divine creation or creating) hosted by BeauFolio Studio is an embodied creative practice that incorporates the ancient Christian spiritual practice of lectio divina alongside a guided practice of sacred art-making. CreatioDivina offers a five-movement flow that invites makers and creators of all kinds into a practice of art-making designed to be accessible and communal for those who would not consider themselves traditional artists by fostering ideation, collaboration, and courageous conversations.
- The Discipline of Inspiration with Carey Wallace: Understanding the nature, the origins and the discipline of inspiration, and how establishing strong creative habits enables leaders to more successfully engage in strategic action.
- The Art of Perception with Amy Herman: The Art of Perception is an interactive program that teaches leaders across the professional spectrum to analyze works of art as a vehicle to enhance their observation, perception, and communication skills. Designed to support those who are charged with creating and implementing vision, the workshop focuses on effectively articulating ideas and goals that encourage tangible and strategic development. Works of art are engaged to address breakdowns in precise communication of critical information, navigate new landscapes, and remove assumptions to promote best practices and more effective problem-solving.