Dr. Greg Wallace

J.D., M.A., D.Min.

Dr. Greg Wallace is a pioneer in apostolic leadership. His unique emphasis on strengthening culture and working collaboratively helps marketplace and ministry forerunners build structures that can sustain growth without losing spiritual authority. A key part of his work is designing governance, leadership, and organizational frameworks that carry spiritual authority, relational trust, and operational complexity at the same time. Greg is a former Chief Operating Officer, Chief Academic Officer, administrative pastor, Fortune 500 executive, and board president. These experiences uniquely qualify him to cultivate apostolic leaders, strengthen Kingdom organizations, and transform culture.

Request Dr. Greg Download overview (PDF)

Biography

Full Biography

Dr. Greg Wallace leads The Wallace Group, a marketplace ministry that helps leaders and organizations fulfill their God-given purpose to advance Kingdom culture.

He is a barrier-breaking executive and a pioneering leader. He was one of the youngest executives at the second largest investor-owned electric utility in America; and the first African American male to attain that status. He was the first person of color to preach in a local Afrikaans-speaking Dutch Reformed Church in the Johannesburg area of South Africa.

Dr. Greg was the COO of “the premier US-centered apostolic network in the world.” He also founded and led the Doctor of Ministry program focused on transformational leadership for an international online Christian university.

He and his wife, Linda, lead a relational community of Kingdom-minded leaders from different parts of the world who are dedicated to transforming their region. They also provide apostolic oversight to churches and ministries in the U.S., the Caribbean, and Africa.

Dr. Greg’s apostolic gift was recognized through the laying on of hands by the senior apostolic leaders of Harvest International Ministry. His particular anointing is in apostolic thought leadership. This thought leadership is seen in the content of his trainings and his writings. Along with his consulting, they have earned Dr. Greg a reputation as an apostolic theologian.

Previous Roles

Director of Planning & Integration
Southern California Edison
And de facto chief of staff of Customer Service Operations, a 2,500-employee, $250M division.
Chief Operating Officer
Harvest International Ministry
Which one commentator said “might well be the largest apostolic network in the world.”
Chief Academic Officer
Wagner University
An online Christian institution of higher learning founded by the late Dr. C. Peter Wagner.
Adjunct Professor, Graduate School of Management
Azusa Pacific University
Taught organizational change management, improving organizational performance, HR law, and HR management.
Administrative Pastor
Harvest Rock Church
A megachurch in Pasadena, CA, where he led several apostolic and cultural change initiatives.
Founder and Dean, Doctor of Ministry
Ordinary People, Inc., School of the Prophets
An online Christian school with students from nearly a dozen countries.
Board Member
Nearly 20 nonprofit and not-for-profit boards of directors

Education

Doctor of Ministry
Apostolic Leadership and Applied Theology
Wagner University
Master’s Degree
Human and Organizational Development
Azusa Pacific University
Juris Doctor
Law
UCLA

Dr. Greg and Linda have been married for nearly 30 years and parent a blended family of four adult children and six grandchildren, including two sets of twins.

Experience

Dr. Greg has attained success in a unique combination of arenas — business, ministry, nonprofit, and academic. His own success helps him to guide leaders and organizations into their own definitions of success.

Leadership

Apostolic leadership is about more than influencing people to good outcomes, it is about establishing Kingdom culture. Dr. Greg equips leaders with the skills to increase the display of Christ-centered values and principles in their environments.

He possesses a rare combination of experience in executive level marketplace and ministry leadership, high-level operational and governance stewardship, as well as practical and innovative approaches to problem solving. He has authored books that advance new ideas about business, ministry, and nonprofit organizations.

Governance

Dr. Greg’s governance and management experience spans the full range of organizational scale — from leading a culture change initiative for a 2,500-employee division of a Fortune 500 company, to serving as an apostolic administrator in one of the world’s most visible apostolic ministries, to leading an international relational community of Kingdom-minded leaders.

He is highly sought after by ministry leaders regarding apostolic governance matters. His book, Apostolic Governance in the 21st Century: How To Build A World-Class Apostolic Center, is widely used by leaders to help them shift to an apostolic governance model.

Culture Change

Dr. Greg partners with leaders to help them navigate the journey from where their ministry is now to where God has called it to be. His unique combination of attributes overcomes the difficulties inherent in making substantial change.

He has an apostolic gift for setting things in order, an administrative anointing for aligning leadership teams, resources, and structures with God-given purpose, and hands-on experience leading organizations through complex transitions — bringing together the three dimensions every successful apostolic transition requires.

Perspective

Areas of Thought Leadership

Dr. Greg is viewed as an apostolic theologian for influencing different perspectives in the following areas.

The Kingdom of God

The new wine thinking: It is new wine thinking to realize that the Kingdom of God exists here on earth; that we don’t have to wait until we get to Heaven to experience it. The Seven Mountain Mandate has focused much of the body of Christ on relying on Kingdom principles to improve earthly systems.
Where Dr. Greg moves beyond it: Dr. Greg recognizes that God is doing a new thing — establishing Kingdom culture by not only equipping saints but also releasing them to perform their own ministries, i.e., continuous acts of service. Thus, he prioritizes expanding the Kingdom of God, not fixing earthly systems.

The Apostolic

The new wine thinking: It is new wine thinking to recognize that the apostolic gift is a contemporary gift; that there are people who operate in the office of the apostle, just as people operate in the office of the pastor. This thinking has focused our attention — and our debates — on apostles.
Where Dr. Greg moves beyond it: Dr. Greg moves beyond this thinking. He shuns the use of apostle as a noun or title and focuses on the apostolic as an action-oriented verb. Simply put, being apostolic means being sent by God to establish Kingdom culture in the environment to which we have been sent. Thus, everyone can be apostolic — not just those who have been commissioned, ordained, or appointed to be an apostle.

Ministry

The new wine thinking: It is new wine thinking to interpret the five grace gifts identified in Ephesians 4:11 as leadership gifts; that effective church and ministry leadership contains these “five-fold” gifts.
Where Dr. Greg moves beyond it: Dr. Greg recognizes that Jesus gave these gifts as serving gifts, not leadership gifts. These gifts are to be exercised in service to the saints — equipping them to perform works of ministry — and in service to the body of Christ building itself up in love.

Local Churches

The new wine thinking: It’s new wine thinking that churches should minister outside of the four walls of the church; that the church should seek to build the community, not just its church.
Where Dr. Greg moves beyond it: Dr. Greg teaches that the four walls of the church should come down. Local churches should understand that they are individual members of the body of Christ with a part to play to grow the body. Tearing down the walls also means that when “members” of a local church have a need that is not being satisfied at their local church, they may seek to satisfy that need elsewhere in the body of Christ, e.g., from another local church.

Explore the Thought Leadership Hub

Published Work

Books

Dr. Greg has also edited three additional books, including Modern Day Apostles and Operating in Your Apostolic Office and Anointing, by Che Ahn.

Speaking

Speaking Topics

For Executive Leaders: Thought leadership subjects that expand perspectives about the Kingdom of God, the apostolic, ministry, and the role of local churches in the body of Christ.
For Apostles: How to lead apostolically, including how to establish and strengthen Kingdom culture in their environments.
For Marketplace Leaders: How to increase the display of Kingdom values and principles in the marketplace.
For Pastors Transitioning To The Apostolic: Helping pastors shift from a pastoral mindset to an apostolic mindset.
For Church & Ministry Teams: Empowering teams to support their leader in the transition to the apostolic by equipping them to strengthen a Kingdom culture, including an apostolic mindset.
Regarding Apostolic Governance: To help leaders and administrators create or strengthen apostolic governance in their organizations.
For Church Congregations: How to understand what a transition from a pastoral environment to an apostolic environment entails.

Request Dr. Greg as a consultant, trainer, or speaker

Tell us where you want to make a greater impact in your sphere of influence, and how you would like to enlist Dr. Greg.

Start a request