About Me
Having had a successful marketplace career in accounting, banking and corporate finance, Steve has a background as a serial entrepreneur, and has grown successfully four different companies over the last ten years. He also took his wife Sue on a once-in-a-lifetime, one-year World Tour, covering 25 countries (before kids and a mortgage!) in 1996-1997. Ask him about that awesome adventure – he highly recommends it to all! As Steve rounded the inevitable 40-year mark several years ago, he began to reflect on the fact that that he has about 20 million minutes (38 years for the mathematically challenged!) left to make his life significant. This blog hopes to chronicle that journey.
Steve now serves as the Executive Pastor at Park Community Church, a growing church of about 1,200 urban energetic folks in the heart of Chicago on the near northside, where he adds his direction and creativity to areas like strategy, information technology, human resources, communications and other cool stuff.
Park has bought a building and is beginning to renovate that building — check out the progress at the Imagine More stewardship campaign website!
Over the last ten 15 years, Steve has had some cool jobs…….Steve helped start Dakota Beef LLC , the country’s largest organic beef company now serving delicious meat through Costco! He also co-founded Envestnet Asset Management, a successful venture-backed financial services firm, which has grown significantly through multiple acquisitions. Steve also served as the VP-Chief Financial Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of American Disposal Services, Inc., a publicly-traded consolidator in the waste services (garbage — yuck!) industry, which was acquired in October 1998.
Steve’s also enjoyed his marketplace experience as a money center banker with Bank of America and Continental Bank and more than five years as a CPA with a Big Six firm. He earned his undergraduate degree in accounting and economics from the University of Michigan and an MBA in finance and corporate strategy from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business.
Steve and his wife are active in a number of charities in Chicago, love the theater (including Provision Theater – the best theater company in Chicago), and he and his wife and their four children reside on the northside of Chicago.
Steve,
Thank you for your kind words about our In His Grip Golf Ministry. There are 60 million golfers worldwide and they all need to know Jesus Christ as their personal Savior.
May the Lord Bless all you do for Him.
In His grip,
Scott Lehman