Blake Ryan is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Storyland Studios, a creative group that imagines, designs, and creates experiences and environments in three dimensions to help clients tell their stories. During Blake’s nearly 20 years of service, the organization has experienced healthy growth, organizational transformation, and service expansion. As an entrepreneurial leader, he champions vision, culture, creative innovation, and collaboration to fulfill commitments to both clients and employees alike. Blake is passionate about Storyland, but he also has a big heart for the community. In 2014, he founded Restoration Roasters, a specialty coffee bar that provides financial support and hands-on vocational training for homeless veterans. Before joining the team, Blake was a finance and operations executive who worked with various domestic and international organizations ranging in industry from large financial institutions to small non-profit organizations. Blake currently resides in Horsetown, USA, where his wife and three kids enjoy horse riding and other outdoor activities.

Mike has served on staff at churches in Southern California for the past 20 years. Currently, in addition to teaching as an Adjunct Professor of Ministry and Bible at Hope International University, Mike helps churches and church leaders engage with nuance and thoughtfulness in difficult conversations that they are often not having. He guides and mentors individuals as they walk through transitions of deconstruction and reconstruction of their faith. He also works with churches and leaders who are finding new ways for the church to move forward in post-evangelical realities.