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 1984 graduate of Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. Following graduation,Ford started a 17-year career with Procter & Gamble, holding various positions in their Sales Division with multiple customers. His final stop was as an Associate Director on the Procter & Gamble Wal*Mart team in Fayetteville, AR.
In 2001, Ford joined his Mom & Dad in their family business serving private Boarding Schools across the United States for their student health insurance needs. This involved a move to Hilton Head Island, SC where he has lived for the past 24+ years. He recently sold that business and is now consulting with the purchasing company, part-time.
Ford is blessed with 3 children (and one grandchild!) and has loved serving in various Board positions as part of the church, Hilton Head Christian Academy and now the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. He was recently married in April of 2025 and is excited about the chapters that lie ahead.
Mike Davis
Mike is a 1988 graduate of Newberry College in Newberry, SC.
A native of South Carolina, Mike began his working career as a teacher and coach at Irmo High School in Columbia, SC. 
After three years of teaching, he changed directions and began a career in the event rental business. This career brought him to Hilton Head in 2000, when he purchased an event rental business and rebranded it as Low Country Event Rentals. He operated that business for seven years and then sold it to an investment group. In the meantime, he purchased Village Self Storage in Bluffton, operating that business for approximately 20 years before selling it. Currently, Mike owns & develops light industrial properties for lease in the Bluffton area.
Mike has served as a volunteer coach at Hilton Head Christian Academy, a middle school basketball referee at local schools, is on the Infrastructure Committee at Indigo Run Property Owners Association and is a long-standing volunteer with the RBC Heritage Golf Tournament. He has also served on the Board of Hilton Head Christian Academy, on the Stewardship Committee and as an Elder at Hilton Head Island Community Church and was the first Executive Director of the First Tee of the Lowcountry.
Mike and his wife Jeanette live in Hilton Head and have two children and two grandchildren.
Aaron Gorenberg
Aaron grew up in the San Francisco area of California but lived in San Antonio, Texas for 2 years before moving to Hilton Head Island along side his brother Daniel (also a facilitator). Aaron does medical coding/billing for hospitals nationally. His hobbies are reading and painting plastic models used in board games.
He has recently taken on the role of Interim Youth Director, a part-time position at Providence Presbyterian Church where he works with the Discipleship Committee and our Pastors to plan, coordinate and grow meaningful youth activities.
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.
Dan is a native of Cincinnati, Ohio and now spends a majority of the year in Hilton Head. He is a finance major from Indiana University in 1978 and earned his Masters degree in Economics from Xavier University.
An entrepreneur by nature, Dan started FrameUSA.com in 1981, which became one of the first companies in the United States to manufacture and sell picture frames on the Internet. He has been involved in several non-profits and started FilltheTruck.org in 2010, an organization that has donated hundreds-of-thousands of items to local food banks in Ohio. He is passionate about arts organizations and has served as a Board member and president of Visionaries and Voices which provides art education to adults with disabilities.
Fifteen years ago Dan started EmpowerUAmerica.org a FREE University which has taught over 600 classes on Economics, Politics, History, and Education to the public. Dan loves to teach classes on subjects he is passionate about and has also become a regular speaker for Hilton Head Lifelong Learning. Currently, he is a member of the Finance Committee for the Palmetto Dunes Property Owner’s Association.
In his free time, Dan loves to spend time with his wife Becky of 44 years and three children. He loves to watch and play tennis and at times, when required, play golf. One of his true joys is throwing the ball to his dog Gidget on the beach.