Adam
Whitescarver

Initially, I chose a different path than the business world by going into full-time ministry for over 20 years. In 2014, I became the leader of a nonprofit that let my two worlds start to merge: I helped grow the organization from 3 to 11 staff, built 14 roundtable networks for pastors dealing with the particular challenges of senior leadership, and led prayer retreats for individuals, churches, and nonprofits, as well as businesses ranging from $1 million to over $1 billion in annual revenue.

This is where I felt most at home, and where I saw the clearest, most repeated life transformation for leaders in their businesses, homes, and relationships with God.

That experience is what pointed me to Convene. I wanted an organization with real structure and tools for business leaders, but enough flexibility to let members build authentic peer relationships where they genuinely help each other grow, not just professionally, but as whole people.

As a Chair, my leadership philosophy centers on building a great team. I am not the smartest man in the room, and I do not try to be. Scripture says, “in abundance of counselors there is victory,” so I fill my Convene teams with sincere Christ-following business leaders to be the counselors in the arena with you.

Loving Jesus and aiming to give Him glory shapes everything about how I do this: I believe success that comes at the cost of your family or your character isn’t success at all. I get to bring my business upbringing and ministry calling together in one role to help leaders build companies that matter, marriages that last, and a faith that deepens along the way.