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Faith in Business People

The Director of Faith in Business is Peter Heslam. He heads up a volunteer team of enthusiastic, experienced and talented business people. The team plan, carry out and oversee Faith in Business activities. If you are interested in joining this team, see our volunteering opportunities, or contact us to discuss your the gifts you can bring.
 
Peter Heslem   Stephen Doel
Peter Heslam
Director of Faith in Business
  Stephen Doel
Volunteer Team

Peter is Director of Faith in Business. With a broad academic background at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, he has a focus on the intersection of business, faith and development. Read more...
Peter S Heslam is Director of Faith in Business. This is a part-time post (two days per week). Peter's research, writing and speaking is wide ranging within the general field of whole-life Christianity. Some of it is focused on the interface of business, faith and development. Although largely overlooked, he believes greater understanding of this interface will help deliver practical change that increases human and environmental well-being. He also has a research focus on the social entrepreneur, statesman and theologian Abraham Kuyper and is inspired by Kuyper’s vision for whole-life discipleship.

Peter has a broad academic background that includes various positions at Oxford and Cambridge Universities. Before them, he was on the faculty of the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity (LICC), the Cambridge Theological Federation, and Ridley Hall. In his work as a doctoral supervisor at the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies and as a Research Associate of the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide and the Kirby Laing Centre for Public Theology, he seeks to increase knowledge and understanding of whole-life mission and faith-based cultural engagement. 

In directing an international research project on Christian entrepreneurs, Peter has interviewed scores of business leaders in many different countries. He previously directed Transforming Business (a cross-disciplinary project based at Cambridge's Faculty of Divinity, with close ties to Cambridge's Judge Business School) and the Oxford and Cambridge Symposium on Enterprise, Ethics and Development (SEED), and has held various visiting professorships at universities and business schools around the world.

Peter writes an article for every edition of Faith in Business Quarterly and is the editor of God on Monday. This series of short weekly reflections, produced in partnership with the Church of England, are designed to help people live out their faith in ordinary everyday life, including in their work (sign up here). He is involved in an honorary capacity in various arts projects and in parish work as an ordained minister in the Church of England. 
 
 
Stephen Doel is a senior operations leader, COO and Executive Board Director with more than 25 years experience in the semiconductor and life sciences industries. Read more...
Stephen Doel is a senior operations leader, COO and Executive Board Director with more than 25 years experience in the semiconductor and life sciences industries. 

He is used to leading diverse, multi-site teams across a wide range of organisations, and has spun out two not-for-profit companies in open source and in education. He has also acquired and integrated several businesses to secure their growth.

After attending a couple of Faith in Business conferences and finding many business people who shared his values, he was delighted to become part of the volunteer team and to play his part in helping this vital ministry to continue being a source of blessing to business leaders and their organizations around the world.
 
     
Karim Lawson-Williams   Esther Ngethe Circle
Karim Lawson-Williams
Volunteer Team (Creative Director)
  Esther Ngéthe
Volunteer Team
Karim has spent his career in the creative and built environment industries. Read more...
Karim has spent his career in the creative and built environment industries. He started out in civil engineering as a qualified architectural technician, working on projects like the iconic Shard building in London. Now leading his luxury fashion brand and film production company, IAM Studios, he designs clothing with the intent of making modest luxury apparel popular and produces films and video content for clients in related sectors. Karim is passionate about connecting people and businesses from all walks of life with the aim of fostering a revival of Christian-inspired business and culture in the UK and abroad. 
 
  Esther Ngéthe is an experienced accountant who has spent a large part of her professional life working with SMEs. Read more...
Esther Ngéthe is an experienced accountant who has spent a large part of her professional life working with SMEs. She leverages her academic background in finance to help companies improve their profitability by better managing the financial, operational and investing activities of the company.
 
Esther has also served with a young adults Christian organization popularly known as K-Krew BS. Its main aim is to create a platform for young people to study the bible together and to grow deeper in their faith. Occasionally, she blogs about some of the lessons she is learning.
 
Esther's desire for wholesome Christian living where Christian values are not only practiced in church but also in the market place, led to her discovery of Faith in Business. As it helped her find practical ways to put her beliefs to work, she has kept coming back to Faith in Business ever since. Now she is enthralled that she gets to serve on its volunteer team of enthusiastic, grounded and talented business people.
 
     
Camelle-Daley   Ken Dickson
Camelle Daley
Volunteer Team
  Ken Dickson
Volunteer Team (Treasurer)
Camelle ilona Daley is the CEO of international clergy fashion brand House of ilona. Author of ‘Finding Divine Flow’ (book/audiobook/podcast) her first published work and the culmination of over a decade in the Fashion Business. Read more...
Camelle ilona Daley is the CEO of international clergy fashion brand House of ilona. She is also and editor. Her book Finding Divine Flow (book/audiobook/podcast) is the culmination of over a decade in the Fashion Business. As Editor-in Chief of Ordained Magazine: The Voice for Women in Ministry she leads a team of over 100 writers and other creatives. All this has led to her establishing the Divine Flow Publishing Company, which helps to launch influencers and authors; and the Divine Flow Academy, which nurtures emerging talent. Passionate about helping people and companies discover and amplify their voices, she is grateful to work in spaces where creativity and ministry meet. Camelle wants her life's journey to be an inspiration to other creatives ready to launch and market their dreams. Proud mother to two beautiful daughters, she lives and works in Milton Keynes.
 
  Ken uses his background as Finance Director working for leading multinationals to help niche businesses, turnarounds, social enterprises and charities to improve their financial competence and social impact. Read more...
Ken uses his background as Finance Director working for leading multinationals to help niche businesses, turnarounds, social enterprises and charities to improve their financial competence and social impact. He is a director, trustee and financial advisor of several internationally focused organisations. Through training and courses in business essentials, underpinned by Bible-based principles, Ken supports the next generation of entrepreneurs and businesspeople in the UK and Africa to develop sustainable businesses that benefit their communities.
 
     

Our Trustees

Our Trustees oversee Faith in Business activities and support the people involved. They set the overall strategy for Faith in Business, with Peter and the team managing our ongoing operations.
     
Dawn-Stallwood   Andrew Glover
Dawn Stallwood
Trustee
  Andrew Glover
Trustee

Dawn is Managing Director of Danetree Associates and Chief Integrity Officer for Floodlight Business Limited. Read more...
Dawn is Managing Director of Danetree Associates and Chief Integrity Officer for Floodlight Business Limited. She studied law at Kingston University and at The College of Law, qualifying as a solicitor in 2000 and a notary public in 1999.

After ten years in industry, and with a large regional UK law firm as commercial partner, she founded Danetree in 2010. Dawn’s work in directing Danetree is focused on corporate advice and project management, notably for transactions and commercial development, in the UK and abroad.

Floodlight Business is focused on mentoring (school seniors and college students, through to workplace support and boardroom conscience) and training. Its aim is to enable business integrity through the behaviours, choices, communications and actions of leaders (or future / apprentice leaders) and their management teams.

Dawn is a member of the Institute of Collaborative Working and the Institute of Business Ethics. She lives in Surrey with her husband and their cocker spaniel. Favourite things - time with family, friends, and in the great outdoors. Favourite short break - boating on the Norfolk Broads.
 
 
Andrew is an IT entrepreneur and founded a number of businesses in the IT and Telecoms sector. Read more...
Andrew is an IT entrepreneur and has founded a number of businesses in the IT and telecoms sector. Although he has exited most of these in the last few years, Andrew is still involved with the National Trade Association and in an industry delivery group as a non-executive director.

On founding his first company, Bridge Partners, in 2001 Andrew knew that he needed to reconcile his faith and work. Soon after that he came across Faith in Business and attended his first conference in 2004 on Values in Business. This has led to a near 20 year association with Faith in Business. It also led to him helping to run the Chaplaincy to People at Work in Cambridgeshire, and then involvement with the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity.

Andrew is Church Warden of St John’s Church in Waterbeach and is married to Janet, an ordained minister in the Church of England. They have an enthusiastic Staffordshire bull terrier named Beulah, and they enjoy gardening and cricket.
     
David Ball   keren
David Ball
Trustee
  Keren Pybus
Trustee

David has spent his career as an engineer, inventor, entrepreneur, and community figurehead. Read more...
David has spent his career as an engineer, inventor, entrepreneur, and community figurehead. In 1970 his idea of making specialist sands for the concrete industry led to his founding the David Ball Group (DBG), which exports quality sands all over the world. As the global market leader, the group also produces the world’s first and most successful concrete waterproofing compound, PUDLO. A strong believer in ‘giving back’ to the community, David is an Anglican lay minister and is actively involved in several local charities and initiatives, including the Chaplaincy to People at Work, Q103 Kidz, Anglia Ruskin University, Westcott House, and the Greater Cambridge Partnership.
 
 
As Co-founder and CEO of Ethical Apparel Africa, Keren Pybus brings over 25 years of experience in sourcing, merchandising, and retail operations. Read more...
As Co-founder and CEO of Ethical Apparel Africa, Keren Pybus brings over 25 years of experience in sourcing, merchandising, and retail operations. Her passion for ethical manufacturing drove her to start Ethical Apparel Africa (EAA). It operates with a model that proves that living wages and worker empowerment are not mutually exclusive with cost-competitive product and profit. Today EAA manufactures mass market apparel from its factories in Ghana, mainly for export to the USA.

Keren has worked all over the world. This has included spending three years in Bangladesh to set up and run the George sourcing office. She has worked both with large retailers such as Walmart UK/South Africa and with small-scale artisan suppliers. She is based in London with her husband and daughter. 

Keren has been involved in Faith in Business since 2016 when she attended its annual conference in Cambridge. Faith in Business has inspired Keren to develop a theological understanding of work, combined with learning from the shared experiences of others in the Faith in Business network. This has significantly helped her in her role as CEO of Ethical Apparel Africa, especially in working in a cross-cultural environment. She is an active part of the Faith in Business prayer ministry team.
 
     
Kim Sawers    
Kim Sawers
Trustee
   
Kimberly (Kim) Sawers is Seattle Pacific University’s vice president for business and finance where she leads the university’s finance and administrative units.  Read more...
Dr Kimberly (Kim) Sawers is Seattle Pacific University’s vice president for business and finance where she leads the university’s finance and administrative units including budget planning, controller’s office, human resources, computer and information systems, safety and security, facility management, and university services. She is also the vice chair of the Seattle Pacific Foundation (endowment and trust management).
 
Kim has served in several roles at Seattle Pacific University over the years: professor of accounting in the School of Business, Government, and Economics (2006–22), associate dean for undergraduate studies (2016-22), university controller (1985–95), and director of finance (1995–97). Her research has focused on decision-making within a managerial accounting context, drawing on theories from accounting, economics, psychology, and organizational behaviour.
 
Kim's publications include articles published in Contemporary Accounting Research, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Behavioral Research in Accounting, Issues in Accounting Education, and Faith in Business Quarterly.
 
Kim’s involvement with Faith in Business over the years has led her to think deeply about integrating her faith with her work at Seattle Pacific University. So she’s excited to be a Trustee of Faith in Business and to see it continuing to provide the academic and practical resources that serve Christians in business around the world.
 
   
     

Honorary Positions

We are delighted to recognise individuals who have made a substantial contribution to the activities and history of Faith in Business. 
     
Richard Higginson    
Richard Higginson
Honorary Life President
   
Richard Higginson was Director of Faith in Business at Ridley Hall from its inception in 1989 until May 2018, and served as our Chair until end of 2023. Read more...
Richard Higginson
Richard Higginson
Honorary Life President
Richard Higginson was Director of Faith in Business at Ridley Hall from its inception in 1989 until his retirement in May 2018. He combined this role with those of Lecturer in Christian Ethics, and Director of Studies.

He is a founder-editor of the journal Faith in Business Quarterly, and the author of several books, including Called to Account, Transforming Leadership, Questions of Business Life, Faith, Hope & the Global Economy, and (with Kina Robertshaw) A Voice to be Heard.

He is an expert on Christianity, capitalism and culture, business ethics, and a theology of work. If you are interested in publishing an article in Faith in Business Quarterly, you can contact Richard for details and advice via the Contact Us page of this website.
 
   

 


Faith in Business
Benefactors & Patrons


We are very grateful to our Benefactors and Patrons, whose generous contributions to Faith in Business allow us to realise and grow our offerings to Christians seeking to live out their faith in the workplace across the world. Most of them do so anonymously, but the following have kindly allowed us to thank them publicly here.

Our Patrons include:
Floodlight
Find out how you can become a Friend, Patron or Benefactor of Faith in Business here

If you need to contact us then please visit the Contact Us page.
Glenys
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Faith in Business’ vision is of business as a force for good, transforming society in a way that expresses the kingdom of God. We encourage and equip Christian business people to be faithful followers of Jesus Christ in a demanding workplace context. With an eye on the future, we are especially committed to serving young business leaders.

Faith in Business is active on many fronts. We run an annual retreat, co-publish a quarterly journal, host a monthly webinar, provide topical weekly reflections and facilitate a business prayer network. As a volunteer-led organisation, we'd love you to get involved with us and there are a number of ways you can do this: