Morris E. Ruddick

Morris Ruddick is the founder of Global Initiatives Foundation (http://www.strategic-initiatives.org/index.htm) and the Strategic Intercession Global Network - SIGN (http://strategicintercession.org/). As an entrepreneur, consultant and business owner, he has led development of entrepreneurial activities in critical needy areas and brought together combined business-charity initiatives across the globe, with a focus on facilitating economic community development in challenging economic environments.

Since 1995, he has been at the forefront of encouraging and mobilizing spiritually-minded business leaders to step out in faith by employing their talents to build their communities. In recent years, Mr. Ruddick's agendas have included hands-on activities in Russia, Belarus, Ethiopia, Botswana, Afghanistan, South Africa, Hong Kong, China, Vietnam and Israel. His initiatives have included biblical business startup programs, entrepreneurial workshops and conference talks to acquaint the West with the realities and strategies to bring change to the parts of the world living on less than $2 a day. He also has helped organize and launch an international consortium of humanitarian aid that assists Israeli immigrants.

He is the author of The Joseph-Daniel Calling, God's Economy, Israel and the Nations and The Heart of a King as well as numerous articles on marketplace agendas, entrepreneurship and spiritual gifts, and the dynamics of markets undergoing change. Mr. Ruddick has been a board member of several international charitable and humanitarian organizations. He served as Corporate Secretary of the segment of the International Christian Chamber of Commerce that produced the popular Chinese television series " You Can Start a Business ." Mr. Ruddick has been a keynote speaker and workshop leader for numerous national and international leadership summits, CEO forums and marketplace conferences; and is a member of the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Ministry Marketing and Management.

Over the years, he has served executive-suite management with his planning and strategy development talents in a diversity of progressive mid-sized operations, charitable organizations, and a diversity of well-known multi-national companies. He was at the helm of designing and implementing two successful corporate turnarounds, one being for a $1.4 billion firm. His specialty for both the business and charity spheres is in evaluating the dynamics impacting changing and emerging markets.