T.D. Jakes' International Leadership Summit to Focus on Cross-Generational Collaboration, Paving the Way for Leaders in a Quickly Changing World

15th annual Summit will focus this year on "Changing of the Guard" for business and spiritual leaders

ORLANDO, Fla., March 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The world is transforming at a breakneck pace, disrupting every sector from technology to finance to politics and communications. As Generation X brings initiative and experience to the table and Gen Z drives innovation in the workforce, never has there been a greater need for leaders to engage in cross-generational collaboration.

To be future-ready for a dynamic shift in the way leaders lead, T.D. Jakes' annual International Leadership Summit, presented by Wells Fargo, will focus this year on the theme, "Changing of the Guard" — concentrating on advancing a new generation of ministry and business leaders as they continue to glean wisdom from past generations. The International Leadership Summit will return to Orlando's Orange County Convention Center, April 10-12, 2025, featuring business and spiritual leaders from around the world who will discuss topics ranging from faith to finance. Media credentialing is now open, and applications may be submitted online. 

Topics presented at the 2025 International Leadership Summit will reflect national conversations in today's culture: navigating challenging times, leadership and wealth generation, turning technology into a competitive edge, and the changing of the guard.

Launched in 2011, the International Leadership Summit remains a crucial gathering of business and spiritual leaders discussing the most pressing issues of today while working together to solve society's most complex problems. The summit is one of the most transformative leadership conferences as a standard-bearer for values-based business learning and professional development.

The International Leadership Summit will be the first of three conferences the T.D. Jakes Group will host in 2025. Presented by Wells Fargo, each of the three conferences aim to empower leaders and  communities around the world. Following the International Leadership Summit, Good Soil will take place June 12-14, 2025, at the AT&T Performing Arts Center in Dallas to catalyze and support a broad range of  business owners. Sarah Jakes Roberts' Woman Evolve is set to host its next conference at State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia, July 31-Aug. 2, 2025. Woman Evolve's mission is to equip women through spiritual and practical development with the tools necessary to evolve into the highest version of themselves.

The International Leadership Summit will welcome these key industry leaders.

WHO:

• T.D. Jakes, CEO of the T.D. Jakes Group
• Steven Furtick, faith leader and author
• Cindy Trimm, founder and CEO, Trimm Institute of Global Leadership + Trimm Global Charities
• Carla Harris, senior client advisor, Morgan Stanley
• Dr. Myron Rolle, pediatric neurosurgery fellow at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital
• Joel Tudman, senior pastor, The Faith Center
• James Meeks, CEO, Hope Center Foundation
• Lambert Gates, president, L.W. Gates Ministries
• John Hope Bryant, founder and CEO, Operation Hope
• Courtney McBath, Courtney McBath Leadership and president of Virginia Christian College
• … and more leaders of business and faith found on the website.

WHERE:
Orange County Convention Center
9800 International Dr.
Orlando, FL 32819

WHEN:
April 10-12, 2025

Media Credentials:
All members of the media – reporters, photographers, videographers and crew – are required to have and display credentials in order to cover events within the conference. Press may request media credentials for the International Leadership Summit by filling out this form. Applicants will be notified via email whether they are approved or declined for credentials. Information regarding where to pick up credentials, parking, facility access, interviews and other details will be sent, pending approval of credentials.  

About the International Leadership Summit
Founded by T.D. Jakes – real estate mogul, New York Times bestselling author, pioneering CEO and entrepreneur, global humanitarian, devoted philanthropist, senior pastor of The Potter's House – the International Leadership Summit is an annual transformative conference. Since 2011, the conference has cultivated aspiring and tenured entrepreneurs and leaders with the tools to become successful in for-profit and not-for-profit industries.

SOURCE International Leadership Summit