Lori M. Ruffin is an upbeat strategic thinker, speaker, and Executive Director of Movement Leaders Collective, a community for movement leaders and a catalyst for movement leadership. She’s the founder of The COO Team, an operations agency that helps visionary leaders get the strategy and systems they need to scale. Drawing from her experience at a Fortune 500 company, years serving national and international nonprofits, and an MBA program from Regent University, she has worked with and consulted ministries such as Kumveka, Women Doing Well, Generous Giving, The V3 Movement, Created Leaders, The Voices Project, Uptick, and Arrabon. She serves on a handful of nonprofit boards. Living in Richmond, Virginia, she serves as a lay leader in a local urban ministry context with her husband, Marques, and three daughters.
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A Conversation with Deb Hirsch: Life with Jesus, Life as Ministry
Deb Hirsch’s life and ministry hasn’t fit into compartmentalized boxes. Her work as a pastor, missional leader, and counselor has been an immersive, full-life calling....
Candid Conversations About Women and the Church
Exponential NEXT Podcast Episode 67 Series: Candid Conversations About Women and the Church In this episode Inés Velásquez-McBryd shares her journey to becoming a church planter...
Candid Conversations About Women and the Church
Exponential NEXT Podcast Episode 66 Series: Candid Conversations About Women and the Church What does it mean to go first—when no one who looks like you...
Candid Conversations About Women and the Church
Exponential NEXT Podcast Episode 65 Series: Candid Conversations About Women and the Church Molly answered God’s call to move her family to Denver with a heart...
Candid Conversations About Women and the Church
Exponential NEXT Podcast Episode 64 Series: Candid Conversations About Women and the Church To fully represent the Imago Dei it requires both men and women stepping...
Candid Conversations About Women and the Church
Exponential NEXT Podcast Episode 63 Series: Candid Conversations About Women and the Church While many of us lead within our church community, Mimi Chan felt God...
Candid Conversations About Women and the Church
Exponential NEXT Podcast Episode 62 Series: Candid Conversations About Women and the Church Sometimes ministry takes a turn we didn’t expect. Sometimes that change leaves us...
Candid Conversations About Women and the Church
Exponential NEXT Podcast Episode 61 Series: Candid Conversations About Women and the Church In ministry, change is to be expected. We watch people come and go,...
Multiethnic Church Planting
Exponential NEXT Podcast Episode 47 Series:Multiethnic Church Planting Our multiethnic church planting conversation begins with the leaders of the Multiethnic Collaborative, a group of church...
The Unexpected Power of Small Pieces
Have you ever wondered if what you have and who you are is enough to make a difference in the world? In our fast-paced and...
Moving from Ministry to Movement
Have you ever had a time when you chose to say “yes” to something that would stretch you beyond your comfort zone? I remember the...
