If you’d like to get in touch with our staff or help us work behind the scenes, please email us at neohio@cbmc.com.

Our events are made possible by our generous sponsors, hardworking volunteers and dedicated steering committee members.

The Cleveland Leadership Prayer Breakfast and Akron Leadership Prayer Luncheon events are co-chaired by:

• Anthony M. Ciepiel – Managing Director, CPL Advisors LLC / Retired CEO, Step 2 Discovery / Board Chair, CBMC NE Ohio

• Roger Emerson – Intellectual Property Attorney, Emerson Thomson Bennett, LLC / Board Member, CBMC NE Ohio / Board Chair, CBMC International

Steering Committee Members include:

• Mark Alder – Business Consultant, Alder Advisory Group, LLC / Retired Area Chairman, Gallagher

• Steve Conzaman – Area Director, CBMC NE Ohio

• Joe DiRocco – Chief Financial Officer, Oswald Companies and Unison Risk Advisors

• Martin Hale – VP, Corporate Banking Senior Underwriter, PNC

• Don Hull – Retired Attorney, LTV Steel

• Brandon Kenney – Chief Executive Officer, TTX Inc.

• Fred Koury– President, Lebo Properties

• Mark Krohn, Esq.– Chairman, Prevail Transaction Partners

• Brenda Leisinger – President, Right Team, Inc.

• Jeremy Long, CPA, MBA– Principal, Rea

• Marilee MacAskill – Retired Area Manager, Dale Carnegie Training

• Larry Morrow– Executive Coach, Larry Morrow, Inc. / Longtime Cleveland Radio Host

• Sal Parrella– President & Owner, Office One Furniture and Services, Inc.
• Dave Petno– VP, Employee Benefits Consultant, USI Insurance Services
• Audrey Wallace– President and Board Chair of CBWC

• To provide a community gathering event that includes an encouraging message from a guest speaker, scripture readings, and prayer for our city and nation given by a diverse group of local business and community leaders.

• To convene a yearly breakfast/luncheon emphasizing the importance of invoking the direction and blessing of God on NE Ohio, offering an invitation to all who would desire to attend.

• To foster goodwill between the various facets and groups of our community, encouraging mutuality of trust by the acknowledgement of the higher authority and leadership of God.

Our breakfast and luncheon events are organized by Northeast Ohio’s Christian Business Men's Connection (CBMC) and Christian Business Women's Connection (CBWC). We also have a volunteer steering committee, consisting of a variety of business and community men and women.

Our past speakers include Adolph Coors IV (Coors Brewing Co.), Ken Blanchard (One Minute Manager), Elizabeth Dole (CEO Red Cross), Michael Franzese (former mob boss), David Baker (former CEO Pro Football Hall of Fame), Frank Harrison (CEO Coca-Cola Consolidated), and Jeff Struecker (US Ranger in the Black Hawk Down mission).