Founding President/CEO
Teresa is founding President and CEO of the Institute for Cultural Communicators, where students are getting ready to speak. Despite her own phobia of public speaking as a student, she is now an internationally recognized seminar speaker, education consultant, author, and leadership coach. Curriculum she designed is equipping next generation Christians to influence culture through relevant communication and extraordinary leadership in 25+ countries. Teresa’s students have been invited to speak on tens of thousands of platforms to influence audiences for Christ—including the White House, Congress, the G8 Summit, the United Nations, and for churches, schools, and heads of state in more than twenty nations. Teresa and her husband, Robert, call Tennessee home. Her 4 grown children and five grandchildren fuel her passion for empowering the next generation of transformational collaborators and influencers.
Chief Influence Officer
Mary Gunther understands what it means to operate in a rapidly changing environment. And she likes it that way! A graduate in the 2nd class of women from the United States Naval Academy in 1981 and mother of nine, she has been involved in leadership education for the past 25+ years. After attending her first ICC conference in 2005, she brought ICC conferences to Maryland and started the first ICC Chapter. Mary’s interests are varied and diverse: from graphic design, organizational health, strategic action, latest tech trends, and visual storytelling. Along with her experience and training in leadership development, Mary holds a certificate in Art Integration across Curriculum from the Kennedy Center in Washington DC as well as a certificate in Christian Nonprofit Leadership from Christian Leadership Alliance. She assumed her current role Chief Influence Officer in May 2017. Mary lives in Annapolis MD with her husband and a rapidly changing at any time number of children.
People Care
With a degree in education and twenty years’ experience in home education, Lisa McLean shares her extraordinary gift of problem solving through relationship in her work as ICC’s Director of People Care. She uses her role to equip people to parent, mentor, and love well. Lisa and her husband have raised their six multicultural children (five of whom are adopted!) with a heart for genuine cultural communication. All of their children spent years training with ICC – and one currently serves as an Area Leader. They now have two grandchildren in ICC chapters! Having traveled internationally with ICC several times, working with a global community challenges her to develop new skills and ways of thinking, to learn from other cultures, and to appreciate the immensity and diversity of the Church. Her passion: to disciple Christ-followers in wisdom, respect, and holiness.
ICC Board Member and Businessman
Dr. John McLean sees a better future — he’s a visionary and an entrepreneur. His latest project is the building of a string of micro-hospitals in the U.S. All of his six children received years of ICC training, and he’s convinced that his two grandchildren, who participate in an ICC chapter currently, will be prepared for their futures because of it. East Asia is special to him; three of his adopted children are of Asian descent, and he has done years of work with a Philippine orphanage. He believes in the benefit of the ICC training and has frequently backed that up with donations to make it possible for students to experience the transformation of the ICC community.
Director, Global Engagement and Cultural Intelligence Educator
A physical therapist by training, An worked with typically- and atypically-developing children for twenty years before making a career shift. She became involved with ICC ten years ago, where she has since been fulfilling one of her great passions: equipping and mentoring adults. An is of Belgian descent and a strong advocate for intergenerational and intercultural communication. She loves learning by immersion and her vision is to be a reflective listener who creatively reframes other people’s thinking.
Area Coordinator
Brian Eliason is a veteran homeschool dad who has encouraged hundreds of parents and educators throughout his speaking and leadership career. As an Area Coordinator for ICC, he helps lead families, classrooms, and community groups to equip next-generation Christian leaders with the vital skills they need for success in education and in life. Holding a graduate degree in Physics with a specialty in Applied Optics, Brian has brought this knowledge not only to his work for corporations like McDonnell Douglas Aerospace, but also into his ministry. Brian served as a teaching leader for Bible Study Fellowship for 17 years, which has empowered him to encourage dads walking out their faith at home and in the workplace. His STEM background, combined with his experience coaching speech and leadership skills, enables him to support home educators with well-rounded expertise. He and his wife currently live in the Central Valley of California with Brian’s greatest achievement, his daughter Rachel, who has recently toured the globe with ICC as a speech and leadership Ambassador.
Director, ICC Academy
Eunice is an avid reader and loves learning. Since 2012, she has been motivated to create interactive, online learning experiences both in the US and internationally. She has served in the Institute as the Director of the ICC Academy since its inception. Most recently, with her husband Au, she relocated to Singapore to serve with OMF, a global fellowship of Christians with a heart for East Asia. She is now enjoying gardening year-round, buying fresh produce in open-air wet markets, and connecting with her three daughters in the US via WhatsApp. She loves to empower others to serve with excellence and integrity, to follow Christ with confidence, and to labor with faithfulness for the advance of God’s heavenly kingdom.
ICC Board Member and Professional Actor
Director, Adult Leadership
Julie Rambo is an artist, gardener, lover of Jesus, and a homeschool graduate. Julie believes teens should be challenged to step out of their comfort zone. At 17, she became the director of a children’s ministry running 12-week Bible camps with teams from across the Eastern United States. She attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY to study Communication Design with an emphasis in Illustration. Her dream is to create art that shares a story. Julie lives in South Carolina with her husband and their four children. Julie wants to influence today’s culture by discipling the next Christian generation. Julie has been a successful leader – fundraising for her chapter, helping grow leaders and resources, and building influence in her community. We’re inspired by how she coaches our adults to be better coaches themselves.
Director, International Relations
Amy is one of the pioneers that started the first ICC international chapter in Singapore in 2010 and helped organize the first Communicators for Christ conference in East Asia in 2014. She was an ICC Chapter Sponsor before starting the first United Kingdom chapter in Leeds. Seeing the need for ICC in Europe, she organized and hosted the first European Communicators for Christ conference in Nov 2019. Before homeschooling her children full time, Amy was a lecturer in the local polytechnic, training students in intercultural communication and life skills subjects. Her passion for intercultural studies has led her to Indonesia, Australia, and Vietnam as well as finding a home in both Singapore and the UK. Amy is active in her local church ministries like the English class for migrant ladies and café ministry for the homeless and needy.