Meet Our Team of Facilitators
Experienced Discussion Leaders from Business and Academia.
Each year, the College Ethics Symposium is incredibly fortunate to have a wonderful group of facilitators.
Years of Experience
The small group case study sessions are led by accomplished leaders who are trained in the art of discussion facilitation. While accomplished in their fields of expertise, they will not be teaching or lecturing like in a more traditional classroom study.
Your facilitator will:
- Guide you through each of the cases.
- Motivate participation by each participant.
- Maintain a safe and open environment for sharing ideas.
- Watch carefully for interpersonal dynamics of the group looking for signs of potential strain, weariness, lulls, and readiness to move on.
- At every opportunity, recognize the participants for their efforts and the progress they make, and their results.
- Time keeper. Keeping the session on track by tactfully cutting short irrelevant discussions, preventing detours, and maintaining a consistent level of detail throughout the session.
- Listen carefully to the discussion and be able to quickly analyze and compare comments and to formulate questions that help manage the group discussion and challenge the group when appropriate.
Ford Allen
Ford is a nice guy and handsome too.
Mike Davis
Mike is a nice guy and new this year.
Aaron Gorenberg
Aaron is in his 2nd year.
Daniel Gorenberg
A native of California, Daniel has just recently moved from San Antonio, Texas, to Hilton Head Island where he now serves as a pastoral resident on Providence Presbyterian Church’s pastoral staff. Prior to his current role at Providence Presbyterian, Daniel served as a minister in the San Francisco Bay Area at Convergence Covenant Church, a small congregation in the Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC).
Daniel completed undergraduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley, graduate studies at Princeton Theological Seminary in NJ, and is presently enrolled in the Master of Arts in Reformed Theology program through Dubuque Theological Seminary and Theology Matters. Daniel is Theology Matters’ first Rice Fellow and Providence Presbyterian’s first pastoral resident.
Joe Homa
Joe is a 1983 graduate of the United states Military Academy at West Point, where he earned his BS in Basic Sciences and 3 varsity letters playing football for Army. He spent most of his 4 year Army career as an Engineer Officer at Fort Bragg, NC where he held various leadership positions overseeing construction projects. Joe was injured at Fort Bragg in the process of saving another soldier from an oncoming truck and getting hit himself. He was awarded the Soldier’s Medal, the Army’s highest peace time award for heroism, for his response.
After leaving the military, Joe earned his MBA from New Hampshire College and spent 23 years in the corporate world where he held various senior leadership roles, to include President and COO of regional/national industrial distribution companies and VP of Global Sales for a fastener manufacturing company. Many of Joe’s leadership roles involved mergers and acquisitions and turn-around situations. He has spoken at industry conferences on “The role of leadership in acquisition integration”.
Since retiring from the corporate world in 2010, Joe moved to Hilton Head full time where he gained his real estate license and has been selling homes on the island. Joe and his wife have also designed, built and sold 10 luxury homes in Hilton Head’s oceanfront communities.
Besides Joe’s business experience, he is active in his church, has served on various community planning committees and is currently a volunteer mentor for a community program designed to lift people out of poverty.