Greg Leith is joined by Dr. K. Shelette Stewart to discuss how her new book, Revelations in Business, has great application for Christian leaders in every aspect of their business. Listen in to learn how principles from Revelations in Business can help you develop as a Spiritually Healthy Leader.
Dr. K. Shelette Stewart has over 20 years of leadership experience in strategic business planning, marketing, and national account sales with Fortune 500 companies including The Coca-Cola Company and BellSouth Corporation/AT&T. She is a Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Program Specialist and holds a Doctorate in Business Administration.
Shelette currently oversees strategic partnerships for Harvard Business School, directing the University’s alliances with major corporations and state governments for the South East region of the United States. She is also the principal and founder of Stewart Consulting, LLC, a business consulting and leadership development firm serving both corporate and non-profit clients.
Shelette is the author of the book, Revelations in Business: Connecting Your Business Plan with God’s Purpose and Plan for Your Life which has won two Christian Literary Awards and has been formally endorsed by several industry leaders including Dan Cathy, president and chief operating officer of Chick-fil-A.
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Revelations In Business | The Spiritually Healthy Leader Pt. 4 With Dr. K. Shelette Stewart
Unlocking Divine Business Strategies
I’m excited to have some time with Shelette Stewart. She wrote a book, Revelations in Business. It’s an exciting read about what God has to say about situation analysis. What is the divine marketing plan? What is the divine operations plan, etc.? What is the divine financial plan? What is the divine exit plan? God wants you to be successful, and he wants you to win at the things you do. He’s got a handbook called the Bible. You may not have time to spend reading every page of the Bible and doing an analysis on how that applies to your business. It’d be a great idea, but how about saving a ton of time? Shelette Stewart wrote Revelations in Business to save you time understanding what God’s word has to say about business. She’s done an incredible job. She’s here with us, and I’m very excited to talk to her.
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We’re here with Dr. Shelette Stewart. She’s a Christian, Author, International Speaker, Consultant, and holds a Doctorate in Business Administration. Those don’t come easy, so congratulations on that. You’ve had many years of leadership experience in strategic planning, marketing, business development, Coca-Cola, Bell South, AT&T, and currently overseeing strategic partnerships with Harvard Business School.
It’s exciting that you wrote this book, Revelations in Business: Connecting Your Business Plan with God’s Purpose and Plan for Your Life. I have to say that you are a runaway hit at the Convene Summit. You’ve been speaking all across the country at Convene forums, and you contribute to the Convene blog. I have to say that as I think about you, I think about how much you accomplish with your life, and somehow, there’s energy, enthusiasm, experience, knowledge and wisdom, and so tracking with God’s Kingdom, how do you get all this done? What is in the water stream of Shelette’s life?
First of all, I have to thank you, Greg, and feel free to always call me Shelette. We are definitely friends all the years. Thank you so much for the opportunity to share with your organization. It’s always a delight. To answer your question, I would have to say it’s the grace of God that keeps me going. My passion is really helping others, helping leaders connect their business plans with their purpose, their career and their calling. Once you do that, then life becomes more of a joy. You’re anointed and appointed to do what God has ordained for you to do, so you have the energy that comes from him.
You're anointed and appointed to do what God has ordained for you to do, so you have the energy that comes from Him. Share on XIn your book, every chapter starts with the word divine. Divine situation analysis, divine marketing plan, divine management, divine operations, divine financial plan, divine exit strategy. Do you want to talk about that a little bit?
Sure. Divine is godly. The biblical foundation for Revelations in Business is really based on Proverbs 29:18, “Where there’s no vision or revelation, the people perish.” The consistent leverage of the word, the term divine, is really to incorporate that in every aspect of our business plan, every aspect of a business. That’s from the mission and vision statement to the situation analysis, all the way down through the marketing plan, financial plan, and even exit strategy. That’s to keep the reader focused on, at the end of the day, it must be godly, it must be divine.
Aligning Business With God’s Purpose: Why It Matters
Maybe let’s unpack this a little bit. Purpose and divine mission and vision. Why is it important for business leaders to align their plans with their purpose with God’s vision?
That is so critical, Greg. I’m always astounded when I even share this, but if you think about it, our careers consume over half of our lives. It’s imperative that what we spend most of our waking hours doing for most of our lives is also spiritually edifying. I’m sure you’ll recall as well as your audience, a few years ago, Gallup came out with a study, I believe it was in 2013, and they found that 70% of US workers described themselves as disengaged from their work.
For those of us who are his ambassadors in the workplace and in the marketplace, that is unacceptable. There’s a benefit for the individual and the organization. For the individual, when we connect our business plans with our purpose and our career and calling, then we have passion for our work. We are anointed to do what we’re doing. It’s almost like we’re getting compensated for a hobby. That’s the benefit to the individual. The benefit for the organization is that when you have engaged, productive employees, that drives performance, productivity, and bottom-line profitability for the company. It really is a dual benefit for the organization as well as the individual.
When we connect our business plans with our purpose, career, and calling, then we have passion for our work. Share on XThe Meaningful Workplace: Faith And Business Transparency
Talk a little bit about that. What happens on the bottom line when you’ve connected your vision and mission with God’s divine purpose?
At Harvard Business School, we’ve done so many studies around employee engagement and the impact on the bottom line, and consistently, not just Harvard, but a number of other leading research firms have found that when employees are passionate about their work, when they’re anointed to do their roles and their responsibilities within an organization, then employee morale increases. Employee productivity increases. Also, retention is much stronger. The company does not have to go out and acquire more talent because their talent is a joy to have, and they’re enjoying being with the organization. It truly is a win-win.
I’m a fan of David Ulrich and his work in Michigan. In some of his writing, he says that employees want one thing in the number one spot when they come to work and its meaning. I think so many people who are Christ followers, they might think everybody wants a paycheck. They might think everybody wants a ping pong table in the break room. They might think that they need to provide free food or something.
The fact of the matter is, according to research, people, when they come to work, want meaning. It seems like Christians are afraid to give it to them. They think we’re going to give them all these toys, but we’re not going to pretend they want meaning, because then we might be sued or something for talking about faith. What are your thoughts about that?
To your point about being sued, about talking about faith, that is one of the aspects that I actually appreciate the most about Convene, because you are empowering Christian leaders, CEOs, executives within the marketplace and within the workplace to share their faith, but in a way that is consistent with the protocol of business. We’re still honoring the word of God, we’re bringing others into the kingdom. I commend you and your team for doing that, but I actually believe that you all are really helping to empower so many Christian leaders.
In the Fortune 500 world, it’s difficult for those executives to really be as forthcoming with their testimonies as some of your members can be within Convene. They are the CEOs of private entities as well as public entities. I believe the key is to share your testimony in a way that’s authentic. The Bible says that we are to respect our employers, so still respecting the guidelines of the workplace with the ultimate vision of bringing others into the kingdom. For us, it’s meaning, but it’s also bringing others into the kingdom. That’s our role as his ambassadors.
When employees are passionate about their work, when they're anointed to do their roles and responsibilities within an organization, then employee morale increases. Share on XBridging The Gap: Orthodoxy To Orthopraxy In Business
I am pretty fascinated by the fact that a lot of North American CEOs are afraid to be transparent about faith. While in China, big cranes with big boomerangs on them are tearing down churches. Down the street at businesses, people are being baptized on the shop floor right where they work. Here’s China business leaders who are baptizing people while their churches are being torn down. Here, our churches are empty, and nobody that I know has baptized anybody on the shop floor in the United States of America. It’s a dichotomy.
I was in China and I was serving as a keynote speaker at a business conference there. One of the executives came up to me after the conference, and he made a very interesting remark that I believe will resonate with you and many of our audience members. He said, “There’s some missionary work that needs to be done in the United States.”
For so long, we were the missionaries. We were the ones going out and really providing our Westernized view and the view of God to others. In so many ways, we have relapsed as a society, as a country. There’s absolutely work to be done, and we can do it with organizations like yours, with my Revelations in Business platform, we each have a role to play in the progress and process of really instituting and bringing about the word of God broadly.
You spent twenty years in leadership and research, and here you’re at Harvard. What do you think is the disconnect between people’s orthodoxy and their orthopraxy? They’re so in ingrained in, I believe, in my faith, but when it comes to Monday to Friday, they don’t know what to do. I know it’s because they haven’t read your book, but what else would you say?
There’s a wonderful book that’s been out for a long time now called Church on Sunday, Work on Monday. It’s all about never the two shall meet, which is such a disgrace, especially for us, his ambassadors in the workplace. I believe that as a culture, we have tended to live our lives, Greg, in silos. It is church on Sunday, and then work on Monday through Friday, and then Saturday is the social day. It’s been ingrained as a part of our culture, and that’s why it’s so important for you and I and others to disrupt that.
The way that we do that is with ourselves, but also, I encourage my clients, I have a consultancy, Stewart Consulting. We just focus on strategic planning. So many of my clients need a business plan. When I’m discussing this whole notion of future generations, I encourage them to share their wisdom with the new generation of leaders. We need a new generation of Christian business leaders. I believe that once we begin to share those insights, Greg, with a new generation, and continue to reinforce that in the family and the workplace, I believe that it will change. It takes a while, though.
We need a new generation of Christian business leaders. Share on XI find that so many people like to talk about the Great Commission. So many people like to talk about the great commandment. First, we’re going to evangelize at work and then we’re going to love everybody, but everybody’s forgetting about the creation mandate. It’s that third thing that is the third leg of the stool. Yes, great commission, yes, great commandment, but what about the creation mandate that says when you make a table, as Dorothy Sayers said, “Make great tables.” She said the church has been telling people not to be drunk on Sunday for so long that they forgot to say, “Make great tables.”
Down to the fundamentals. In the chapter on the Divine Marketing Plan, I discuss a great deal about this whole notion of our platform. At the end of the day, what is it that we stand for as leaders? What does our organization stand for? How are we consistent in that? What is that? What is our platform? For us, it needs to be godly. It has to exemplify Christ.
For some leaders, it may be excellent client service or excellent customer care or innovation, but I encourage the audience to think about your platform, think about the basics, the fundamentals, and make sure that that’s being exemplified within every aspect of your organization and your lifestyle. It’s really, to your point, getting back down to the basics, the fundamentals, what we are charged to do in the workplace and in the marketplace.
We have heard about the four Ps of marketing forever, the proverbial four Ps, price, product, place, promotion. The fifth P is your platform. At the end of the day, what do you stand for? Revelations in Business has been endorsed by a number of industry leaders, including Dan Cathy, who is the chairman and CEO of Chick-fil-A. I believe that it’s those concepts in the book, those notions to help us take business to a higher level of excellence, that’s resonating with Dan Cathy, with Anne Beiler, who created Auntie Anne’s pretzels and a number of other industry leaders.
Divine Leadership: Assignments, Prosperity, And Holistic Business
Let’s go on to divine management and operation plan. You caution leaders and you say, “We’re all on a divine assignment.” Say more about that.
It’s interesting, when I’m working with so many senior leaders in particular, I caution them to not get too comfortable, not get too complacent. In the Bible, in 1 Kings chapter 17, you recall when God provided instructions to Elijah to go to the brook and drink freely from the brook, and the ravens would feed him. Surely enough, he did that. He drank freely, the ravens fed him. When the brook dried up, Greg, that was his sign to move on.
I encourage others that so many senior leaders know that their brook has dried up, but they’re holding on. They’re holding on to a past season when the Lord has moved on and desires for them to move on. What I found in my research when I’m speaking with a number of senior leaders and with my clients, is that they’re holding on, number one, because of fear.
They feel that, “I can’t possibly leave the company now and relocate and start that missionary organization that the Lord has planted in my life and my heart.” They hold on because of being comfortable with their compensation. They hold on because of having a prestigious title. I caution leaders to follow God to move into that next season. The safest place you can ever be is within the will of God. Move into the next divine assignment.
The safest place you can ever be is within the will of God. Share on XDivine financial plan. You say pursue prosperity over profitability. Do you have some examples of that?
Yes, it’s interesting, Greg. Prosperity sometimes gets a bad rap, a negative connotation, but the Bible says in Psalm 35:27 that he delights in the prosperity of his people. I encourage leaders, and I would encourage your audience that don’t just focus on profitability. Profitability is typically aligned with financial performance, but prosperity is so much more. It’s more of an umbrella concept, a holistic concept that includes talented employees and loyal customers and clients and reliable suppliers. It’s much more broad.
I often encourage leaders to have a prosperity plan versus just a financial plan. There are so many examples of companies that have done that very well. One example that I’ve shared with so many of the Convene forums is actually Sony Pictures. We know that Sony has had some challenges over the past few years, but a few years ago, Greg, they really got it right.
They conducted a corporate culture and employee engagement study and found that, one, their employees were stressed out, and two, the employees were hoarding information and not sharing the information. They investigated it a little bit further and found that they were so stressed out because there was this corporate culture that says that they had to be available all the time. At night, late at night, whenever they would get an email, the expectation was that you would answer the email at midnight.
Here’s what Sony did. One, they instituted training around trust to get people to share information. Two, they instituted a protocol around communications and said, “Not every email is urgent. If it’s not urgent, then answer it the next day. If it is, then pick up the phone and call your colleague.” They went a step further and they instituted new nutritional entrees for the cafeteria and revamped the athletic facility. They looked at their employees holistically, and there was an impact to the bottom line. Employees were not as stressed. They didn’t have to see their healthcare providers for stress-related elements and ailments. That impacted the bottom line, less medical premiums. That is the example I share with so many of the Convene forums.
That’s a great example. I was with a Convene group that’s meeting down the hall from our offices here. We were talking about the fact that our employees are a mission field, and there’s so many Christian CEOs and leaders who are getting on a plane and flying to China, flying to Africa, flying to South America, flying to Europe so they can do missions. Yet, if they turn around and look on their shop room floor or look down the hall at the cubicles, they would see an unreached people group called their employees who sometimes are wearing their shirt that says the logo and they’re a captive audience, and they think they have to fly to a foreign country to do missions.
Yes, and it’s right there within their organization. In the chapter on the Divine Marketing Plan, I discussed this notion of push and pull strategies. To your point, that may be a strategy where they share their testimonies with their employees in a way that resonates. It’s not necessarily always quoting scriptures. It’s simply exemplifying Christ, exemplifying him in the marketplace and in the workplace. Being a person of your word, having integrity, making sure that your scales or finances are balanced and fair and equitable. So much of that can be taught, can be mentored right there in the organization. That’s part of ambassadorship. It’s part of kingdom.
Crafting A Divine Exit: Legacy Over Liquidity
Chapter eight, divine, Divine Exit Strategy. There’s a lot of Christian CEOs who would say, “I want to build the company to maximum value, sell it. On my liquidity event, I want to give some money, and then I’m buying a house in the Bahamas.” That’s not what you talk about in chapter eight. Talk about a divine exit strategy and what that means.
Yes. So many of the CEOs within Convene whom I’ve had the pleasure of meeting, many of them, as you know, Greg, are focused on succession planning. Many of them are transitioning the company to their heirs. Others are preparing for their next season. I encourage them to do that, to look forward to the next season. I always say that we’re always growing in Christ, we’re always growing to the next level.
I encourage them at that point in their lives to really focus on not just success, because most of them have really achieved a certain level of success, but focus on, more importantly, significance in that they’re leaving a positive lasting legacy in their family, in their communities, and in the world, and look forward to that season. I encourage them to pray, meditate, contemplate, and ask God to rebuild what he would have them focus on for the next season in their lives. We serve a loving God. He’s not going to transition us to a new season or a purpose, and not tell us what it’s, but it’s up to us to be very diligent and intentional in asking him.
Focus not just on success, but more importantly, on significance – leaving a positive, lasting legacy. Share on XWhat would you say to the leader, the CEO, who would say that, “This is all so new to me. This is all very exciting,” but they’re not incorporating this? I would say grab a copy of Revelations in Business. How do you work with leaders to get them to put this stuff into practice? I talk to so many leaders who say, “I have to get that book,” or, “I have to listen to that podcast.” There’s a lot of leaders who aren’t leading with intentionality in terms of their appropriating divine principles into their daily.
They somehow think that it’s going to just happen by osmosis. You’ve lived a life of intentionality. Maybe some tips from you because you’re a make-it-happen person, and you’ve had quite an incredible life of great roles in business and now at Harvard and just very professional. Your life is one of intentionality. Where did that come from? How does that happen?
Thank you. It was a growth process, quite frankly, for me, Greg, as well. One of the inspirations for me and how I came to write Revelations in Business was I was in the private sector working for a Fortune 100 company and enjoying it, but the Lord placed on my heart that it was time for a new season, that he had greater work for me to do. When he is allowing the Holy Spirit to speak to us, to move us, it’s up to us to be obedient.
I would want you to say that so many leaders have heard from God, especially Christian leaders, they know when they’re being led. The key is being obedient to the promptings and stepping out on faith. When I resigned from the Coca-Cola company after ten wonderful years, and Coke is an outstanding company, but it was probably one of the worst times in the history of our country from an economic standpoint.
It was 2007 to 2009. Do you remember the economy, the housing market crash? I could have easily just stayed with Coke and have been comfortable and complacent, but you have to step out on faith and trust God, and you make 1 step, he’ll make 10. That’s what I experienced in my life. To your point, I think the way that we encourage others to make those connections are, one, by exemplifying it within our own lives, like you and I try to do each and every day. We live the word of God out in the marketplace and in the workplace.
The way we encourage others to make those connections is by exemplifying it in our own lives, and secondarily, sharing the insights with others. Share on XOne, exemplifying it with our own lives and being authentic and true. Secondarily, sharing the insights with others. Through Convene, through my keynote presentations, through ministry, through books, through songs, any way that you can share that with others, and then mentoring others as well. Of course, keynote presentations, conferences, just getting the word out. The key is it has to be very practical and pragmatic. You really have to connect the spiritual insights with the very practical, pragmatic insights. That’s what Revelations in Business does.
Folks who have their PhD read a lot of books, but I bet you you’ve read just about everything on Faith in the Marketplace. What would you say is your favorite book, besides your own, that said we are in business on a mission for the Kingdom of God? What do you like the most?
There are so many excellent books around that topic. What immediately comes to mind is the book I mentioned earlier, Church on Sunday, Work on Monday, written by two Stanford professors. It’s been out since 2001. That’s one of my favorites. I love Halftime. Bob Buford. There are so many excellent books out there on the market. I would encourage the audience to Google Faith in the Marketplace, Faith in the Workplace, and see what resonates with you.
Conquering Anxiety: Biblical Wisdom For CEOs
How about if we do this? I’m going to share some CEO problems, and you can just respond with what you think the biblical answer is. How’s that for a little quiz? It’s not a quiz. I know you know all the answers. A lot of CEOs suffer with anxiety and worry. A big problem is looming. They are being attacked by the board. They’re having a bad partnership moment with their partner. Maybe profits are down, maybe the market is tanking on their product. Maybe they have a lawsuit, but they’re feeling anxiety and worry. What thoughts do you have from your book for those people?
In my book, I address that whole notion of anxiety and worry and fear in a number of chapters. It’s really all embedded in fear. I would encourage them to really pray upon 2 Timothy 1:7 that says, “God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and love and a sound mind. That Psalm 46:10 says, “To be still and know that I am God.”
What I find is that oftentimes we do, and I’m guilty of this as well too, those Type A personalities, we’re always on the go, but oftentimes, we just need to rest and allow God to fight our battles. In the chapter on the Divine Situation Analysis, we talk a lot about market research, and one of the points that I share is that if Jesus is our standard, then we don’t have any competitors in the marketplace. If you think about that, if Jesus is the standard, then don’t worry about the competition or the stock market. If you are following his plan and he’s your standard, then you really have no competitors. It’s really changing the paradigm.
Overcoming Loneliness: The Power Of Christian Community
Here’s another one. Complexity and overload. Five years ago, the strategy was X, but the strategy has completely changed because technology has changed. There are products that pop up next week that weren’t even thought about last week, and they’re doing ads on Facebook to get people to invest in their product. Some people with traditional businesses are saying, “I don’t know. Is my business going to be taken over? It’s so complex that I can’t keep up with everything.”
That’s real life. I hear that from my clients virtually every day. What I would encourage them to think about is actually in Numbers 13. Do you remember the story, Greg, where the Lord instructed Moses to send a few men into the land of Canaan that he was given the Israelites? In essence, that was a market assessment. That was a preliminary market analysis. Business schools didn’t come up with market analysis. Wall Street didn’t. It’s in the Bible.
God is our source. Everything else is a resource. Everything else is truly secondary. Share on XI encourage leaders, and we discuss this in Convene forums quite often, to think of not just traditional competitors, but non-traditional competitors. You look at what happened with Amazon and Whole Foods. Who saw that coming? Online service provider could literally eat the lunch of a grocery chain. It’s about being strategic, it’s about being flexible, but staying focused on God’s purpose and plan for you and the organization.
It’s fine to take a look at the data and analytics, primary, secondary research, qualitative, quantitative research, but at the end of the day, Greg, I encourage leaders to know that he is our source. Everything else is a resource. Everything else is truly secondary. If he’s leading you in a particular direction, and even if the data and analytics don’t support it, the Bible says whatever he says to do, do it. I would say pursue God regardless.
God is our source. Everything else is a resource. I think that dog will hunt.
Yes. I think so too, Greg. I think you’re right.
I think that’s a Twitter something or other. That’s a hashtag.
Yeah. I could tweet that.
Here’s another one. I’m lonely. There’s nobody I get to talk to about the decision I have to make. I can’t talk to my vice presidents because it involves them. I am feeling very alone in this decision.
Yes, another very realistic scenario, and again, I have to say, this is where organizations like yours come in, Greg. This is where Convene shines because you provide an organization, a platform and an environment for those CEOs to be supported as they’re making these very difficult decisions by other Christian leaders who may have gone through it before or in the process of making the same decisions.
I would say to engage with organizations like Convene, find organizations, or perhaps some of your local churches may have marketplace ministries and get involved with those ministries, find other Christian leaders who you can connect with and pray with and have accountability partners. It’s up to us to really be intentional in cultivating those friendships, those relationships, those partnerships. It can be very lonely but there are opportunities to make those connections and they’re divine connections.
It's up to us to really be intentional in cultivating those friendships, those relationships, those partnerships. Share on XYeah. I like Ecclesiastes 4:12, “A triple braided cord is not easily broken.” Somebody who lies down by themself gets cold, but if you’re together with other people or all one another in the New Testament that say, “Work with one another, help one another, eat together, etc.” I see so many people who are proud that they’re alone and they eat lunch alone, and they think alone, and they worry alone, but they’re afraid.
I was talking to somebody about the culture in a particular African country, and we were talking about Convene in this African country. They said, “The people in the culture there, in that particular country, do not share with each other. It’s going to be hard for Convene to get going in that country because nobody wants to share their life.” As you point out, there’s Convene groups all over the country where people are opening their profit loss statement, opening their family life, opening their mind and saying, “I can’t do it alone.” I think that’s God honoring.
Yes, I agree. Two thoughts come to mind. One, even though that may be the culture in that country, it’s not to say that you could not be a positive disruptor. There are still segments that may be completely open to Convene and to the platform. I would still say don’t give up, still pursue that. The second thought I have and I experienced this when I was writing Revelations in Business. I resigned from Coke and took a two-year sabbatical just to focus on writing the book. It ultimately took eight years, but a lot of those years I was by myself. I felt alone. Not lonely, but I was alone.
Actually, it was a wonderful experience because it allowed me to hear directly from God. I was not biased from anyone else. I wasn’t in any way jaded from someone else’s perspective. Intentionally, I did not read Faith in the Marketplace books because I didn’t want to be biased in any way. I wanted to hear from God. I would say that there’s some benefit in the alone time. Don’t necessarily shy away from that. Sometimes, that’s the most productive season of our lives.
Embracing New Seasons: Leveraging Credentials For God’s Glory
Somebody asked me what am I thinking about? I’ll ask you that same question. What are you thinking about lately as you create strategic partnerships for Harvard? As you think about your next speaking engagement, or you’re reading your Bible or you’re journaling, what has God been showing you lately?
I would have to say what I’ve been thinking about is as actually a new season for me. I have a Doctorate in Business, but I’m blessed to work for Harvard Business School, so I decided to get a second Master’s degree from Harvard. It’s like, why not? There are more books to read.
You and my friend Helen Mitchell are both cut from the same cloth. Why not another Master’s degree?
Yeah. Lifelong students. My Master’s from Harvard will be in Journalism. What I’m praying about and thinking about the most now is how God would have me to leverage the new credential in my role at Harvard, in my Revelations in Business platform, in my consultancy. How would he have me leverage the degree in a way that glorifies him?
I actually have a journal. As he brings things to mind and ideas, I just jot them down. I would encourage your audience, whatever you’re thinking about, whatever you’re praying about, keep a journal. It’s amazing. If you keep one over a significant length of time, you can look back and see how the Lord has delivered you and blessed you in so many ways. That’s what I’m thinking about, my next season in terms of how I leverage that degree.
If somebody’s reading and says, “I’ve never met or heard of Shelette Stewart before,” what would you say they could do to find you to book a speaking engagement or to buy a copy of your book? What would they best do?
Thank you. Revelations in Business is actually available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble and wherever fine books are sold, and I would invite your audience to reach out to me via social media on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and also on my website, SheletteStewart.com. Feel free to email me through the website. I would love to hear from them, and I always respond to the messages.
As far as I’m concerned, this is one of the finest books on the faith workspace that’s out there. If you are in our audience interested and saying, “What does the Bible have to say about faith work?” If you’re out there reading and you’re saying, “I’m not near Harvard. I don’t have a Master’s degree, I don’t want to study for the next eight years and figure this out,” just grab a copy of Revelations in Business.
You will know that God has a divine plan for your marketing, a divine plan for your vision, a divine plan for your operations, a divine plan for your exit. Whatever the book costs, $10, $20, $30, $40, I’m here to tell you it’s probably worth thousands of dollars of the time you’ll save. It’s been my delight, Shelette, to have you with us and I look forward to seeing you again soon in the future, somewhere at a Convene group.
Thank you so much for the opportunity. It’s always an honor to share with you. Thank you again for the excellent platform that you have in place with Convene. It’s truly enhancing the lives of others. Thank you, and God bless you, Greg.
