John Smith - Blues Preacher
Dr. John Smith is the ideal speaker for the challenges and contradictions of our times.
At once a business anthropologist and biker gang leader, this former teacher and minister is one of Australia ’s most unusual and unorthodox speakers. The charismatic founder of the God’s Squad, Dr. John Smith commands not only the respect of Australia ’s outlaw biker gangs, but also corporate Australia .
John Smith is as committed to transforming businesses, as he is to helping youth and society’s outcasts. A passionate story teller, he has co-authored five books. In 2002, he completed six years of doctoral studies in the United States, researching corporate culture, charismatic leadership and globalisation. He offers powerful historic, economic and ethical perspectives on modern business.
John Smith’s life has been extraordinary. He was gaoled and nearly executed in the Philippines for defending peasant people, addressed a full hearing of the United Nations Human Rights Commission and has been an advocate for the marginalised peoples of Mexico , Al Salvador and Nicaragua .
As founder and Executive Director of five highly successful youth outreach organisations, Dr. John Smith has turned young lives around. His founding of the ‘Concern Australia ’ organisation has been recognised in 2003, with the awarding of the Governor-General’s Centenary Medal.
Dr. John has appeared as a regular commentator on Australian television and radio, and he has been featured in leading newspapers throughout Europe and Australia . John Smith is passionate about blues music - describing popular art as ‘the nerve ends of our culture.’ He is married to Glena Fay, and has two daughters, a son and eleven grandchildren.
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