Rebekah Carpenter, M.A. and M.Div., is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA) and has traveled throughout the country as a keynote speaker leadership and organizational development specialist, author and performing artist. For over 25 years, Rebekah has created and facilitated keynote presentations, seminars and workshops for corporate, business, educational, non-profit, religious, spiritual, personal and professional development events and conferences. The primary mission of Rebekah's life-long research has been to create keynote presentations, leadership development seminars and write a book and facilitator's guide that help individuals and organizations move away from temporary change and empowerment and move towards permanent change and empowerment: what Rebekah calls permanent awakening - a continuous process of death and rebirth - dying to the old - rising to the new.