Alex Bryan, D.Min., serves as chief mission officer. In this role, he leads and supports a systemwide mission team in promoting and integrating the organization’s mission of “living God’s love by inspiring health, wholeness, and hope.”

Bryan joined Adventist Health in 2018 as the mission identity and spiritual care executive. In that role, he led Adventist Health’s strategy around alignment to mission, spiritual care, church and faith community relations, and theological and ethical foundations of mission.

Prior to joining Adventist Health, he served as the senior pastor for the Walla Walla University Church in Walla Walla, Washington. Bryan has also worked as a college president, university professor, and is a co-founder and a lead presenter for the One project, an organization dedicating to teaching and living the humanitarian values of Jesus in the 21st Century.

Bryan’s formal education includes undergraduate studies at Southern College, with majors in history and religion, a Master of Divinity degree from Andrews University, and a doctoral degree in missiology and leadership from George Fox University. Presently, he is studying bioethics at the Alden March Bioethics Institute at Albany Medical College.

Philip B. Warrick, EdD, is an author and consultant and has worked globally in the areas of school leadership, instruction, collaborative practices, and grading.

In 2010, Dr. Warrick was invited to participate in the Texas Principals’ Visioning Institute, where he worked with other principals to develop model practices for Texas schools. He is a past regional president for the Nebraska Council of School Administrators (NCSA). He also served on the NCSA legislative committee and was elected chair. In 2003, he was one of the first participants to attend the Nebraska Educational Leadership Institute, conducted by The Gallup Corporation at Gallup University in Omaha.

Dr. Warrick was named 2005 Nebraska State High School Principal of the Year, 2004 Nebraska Secondary School Principals Region One Principal of the Year, and 1998 Nebraska Outstanding New Principal of the Year and Nebraska Secondary School Principals Region One Assistant Principal of the Year.

He earned a bachelor of science from Chadron State College and master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

A highly-regarded urban educator in New Jersey for over twenty years, Principal Baruti Kafele distinguished himself as a master teacher and a transformational school leader. As an elementary school teacher in East Orange, NJ, he was selected as the East Orange School District and Essex County Public Schools Teacher of the Year and New Jersey State Teacher of the Year finalist. As a middle and high school principal, Principal Kafele led the turnaround of four different New Jersey urban schools, including "The Mighty" Newark Tech, which went from a low-performing school in need of improvement to national recognition, which included U.S. News and World Report Magazine recognizing it three times as one of America's best high schools. Principal Kafele is also the author of eleven books. His 12th book, The Classroom Equity & Social Justice 50 will be released in May 2021.

Grant Lichtman is an internationally recognized thought leader in the drive to transform K-12 education. Based on two decades of work as a senior administrator, teacher, and trustee in K-12 education, and his work with more than 225 schools and districts, he speaks, writes, and works with school and community teams to build capacity and comfort with innovation in response to a rapidly changing world. He shares his numerous articles, speeches, and resources at www.grantlichtman.com, and is the author of four books: Thrive: How Schools Will Win the Education Revolution; Moving the Rock: Seven Levers WE Can Press to Transform Education; #EdJourney: A Roadmap to the Future of Education, and The Falconer: What We Wish We Had Learned in School. Grant received his BS and MS in geology from Stanford University.

Glenward Alexander (“Alex”) Bryant, DMin, serves as the president of the North American Division and vice president of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. Prior to his current position, he served as executive secretary of the North American Division and president of the Central States Conference as well as Temperance director, Youth/Pathfinders/National Service Organization director, and superintendent of Education.

Dr. Bryant earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in theology and business administration from Oakwood College in 1981. In 1982, he began his ministry in Springfield, Missouri and in Coffeyville and Independence, Kansas. He was ordained to the gospel ministry in 1986 and earned his Master of Divinity degree from Andrews University in 1988.

Dr. Bryant also served as a student missionary to Japan for a year. In college, his gift of administration flourished, and he started to serve as director of Adventist Youth at Oakwood College and as president of the Black Students Association of the Seminary (BSAS) at Andrews University.

Betty is a product of Adventist education and has dedicated her life to serving God as an Adventist educator.  During the past 40+ years, she has served as an English teacher, department head, vice principal, and associate director, and currently serves as Director of Education for the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Canada.  Betty chose teaching because she loves to learn and looks forward to learning throughout eternity.