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Institute of Ethical Leadership

Beyond the Bottom Line

This conference is designed to enrich your professional experience and instill a desire to go Beyond the Bottom Line and reach for excellence. We provide denominational leaders with an opportunity for continued professional growth and peer-to-peer networking in a collegial environment rich with content to motivate, challenge, and inspire attendees.

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2026 Beyond the Bottom Line

Date & Location: March 22-24, 2026. Rosen Plaza Hotel 9700 International Drive, Orlando, Florida 32819

Theme:
Cultivating Talent & Nurturing Mission

Who Should Attend: Financial officers and stewardship leaders of the Seventh-day Adventist unions, conferences, health systems, universities, and high school academies of the North American Division.

2026 Conference Resources
TBD
Featured Speakers
TBD
Seminar & Plenary Topics
  • Preparing the Team
  • Setting the Culture
  • Everybody Leads
  • Professional Grade
  • CEO/CFO Panel Discussion
  • Empathy + Leadership
  • How to Chair Boards
  • New NAD Accounting
  • New Payroll Program
  • Fundraising
  • Academy Finances
  • And More!
Program

Details TBA

Continuing Education Credit

The Institute of Ethical Leadership is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.NASBARegistry.org.

National Registry of CPE Sponsors Identification # 133967 

Mission

To offer the highest quality continuing professional education designed to encourage excellence in financial management to the treasury leadership and support staff of Conferences, Academies, Adventist Book Centers and Institutions within the North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists

Values

  • To join theoretical concepts with the practical administrative operational perspective 
  • To seek broad input from denominational, corporate and inspirational professionals in order to provide the highest quality and most valued content
  • To retain a grass roots governance structure that operates independently and cooperatively with the Treasury of North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists
  • To focus on content that is relevant and filled with cutting edge thinking
  • To provide professional growth which meets the standards of the continuing education requirements of the National Association of State Boards of
  • Accountancy and not on communicating the policy and operational tasks of the North American Division
  • To reach the broadest base of the constituency through the rotation of the seminar locations throughout the territory of the North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists

Structure


This professional initiative is operating as a collaboration of an academic institution, currently Southern Adventist University's Institute of Ethical Leadership, with the North American Division Treasury.

For Additional Questions

Institute of Ethical Leadership
Phone: (423) 236-2750
Email: leadership@southern.edu