Leading at Work and in the World
For information contact Joanne Wakim at 404-233-2145 ext. 454 or clf@ctking.com.
Previous Speakers
November 2010:
Tom Peterson, President and Founder, Catholics Come Home.org
For 25 years, Tom Peterson built his career as an award-winning, national corporate advertising executive.
But Tom’s life would radically change forever, after receiving an incredible and transforming Spiritual conversion in 1997, while on a men’s retreat from his church. Soon afterward, he founded CatholicsComeHome.org .
Catholics Come Home has helped lead over 200,000 souls back to the Catholic Church in a matter of weeks, and educated over 20 million people across the U.S. and abroad, about God’s teachings. Recently, Catholics Come Home was awarded with the Legatus International 2009 “Evangelization Award” and “Best Practices” award from the Leadership Roundtable at Wharton Business School.
In record time, their new CatholicsComeHome.org website has attracted over a million unique visitors from all 50 states and 80 foreign countries. Currently, CatholicsComeHome.org ads are being implemented in 30 archdioceses and dioceses, where secularism has led to low Mass attendance. Catholics Come Home ads will begin airing throughout Georgia in December!
In the past decade, Peterson has presented to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Australian Media Conference and Australian Bishops Plenary Meeting, and at various Pontifical Councils at the Vatican.
Peterson and his apostolates have been featured in nearly one hundred media venues worldwide, including multiple appearances on Fox News and EWTN. Their new CatholicsComeHome.org ads were aired on the JumboTron at the Papal Mass in Washington DC, and at the National Prayer breakfast for 2,500 top Catholic leaders.
Tom knows his vocation in life is to help people through media. He encourages others to seek God’s plan for their lives, to help change our world for the better.
Tom and Tricia, his wife of 22 years, and their three daughters live in Roswell and are active members of St. Peter Chanel parish.
September 2010
Frank Hanna, CEO of Hanna Capital
Frank J. Hanna is CEO of Hanna Capital in Atlanta, Georgia. He invests as a merchant banker in financial service opportunities, and has started and sold a number of businesses over the last twenty years. Prior to going into the investment business, he was a corporate attorney.
Mr. Hanna has been involved in education for the last 26 years. He has been instrumental in the foundation of three Catholic schools in Atlanta. Two of those schools have high schools, both of which have been recognized as among the Top 50 Catholic High Schools in the Country.
He has been a frequent speaker to various groups and mass media regarding the ethics of business. He has often spoken on philanthropy, and has written a best-selling book entitled, What Your Money Means.
During the administration of George W. Bush, Mr. Hanna was appointed and served as the Chair of the President’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans.
Mr. Hanna is the founder of the Solidarity Association. Of most significance, the Solidarity Association serves as Trustee of the Mater Verbi/Hanna Papyrus Trust, which guards the oldest copy of the Gospel of Luke (and the oldest copy of the Lord’s Prayer) in the world.
In recognition of his charitable efforts, Mr. Hanna has received the William B. Simon Prize for Philanthropic Leadership, and the David R. Jones Award for Philanthropic Leadership. He is also a Knight of Malta, of the Holy Sepulchre, and a Knight of the Grand Cross of the Order of St Gregory.
February 2010
Chris Donahue, CEO of Federated Investors
Mr. Donahue, 56, serves as president and CEO of Federated Investors, Inc., one of the nation’s largest investment management and financial services companies with over $330 billion in assets. As president and CEO, he develops the firm’s long-term strategies and goals and indirectly oversees the investment management and research, sales and marketing and administrative functions from company headquarters in Pittsburgh. He is also president and director of most of Federated’s global, international, and domestic equity mutual funds and international and domestic fixed-income funds.
In his years with Federated, which was founded in 1955, Mr. Donahue has held a number of executive positions. Mr. Donahue joined Federated in 1972 as a law clerk and in 1974 served as associate corporate counsel in Federated’s Legal Department. He also spent several years selling cash management services to bank trust clients. In the 1980s, he served as head of the bank proprietary marketing effort, the Internal Audit Department and Federated Insurance Operations. From 1990 to 1993, he served as president of Federated Administrative Services. Since 1993, Mr. Donahue served as president and chief operating officer until being named to his current position in April 1998.
Mr. Donahue graduated from Phillips Academy in 1967, Princeton University in 1971 and the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 1974. He is a member of the Allegheny County Bar Association, Pennsylvania Bar Association and Florida Bar Association. He is also a member of the Chief Executives Organization, The World Presidents’ Organization, The Lumen Institute, Saint Vincent College Board of Directors, Allegheny Conference on Community Development, The Extra Mile Education Foundation, World Affairs Council and Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership.
