Jay E. Gary, Ph.D.

Jay Gary is the president of PeakFutures, a Colorado Springs consulting group that works to "help leaders climb higher and see further." Throughout the '90s, Jay worked as a "millennial consultant" helping communities mark their passage into the 21st century. Since 1999, he has been at the forefront of developing "Christian futures," a professional development field to help leaders track change and reinvent their ministries in light of new trans-modern contexts.

In 1994, he penned The Star of 2000, the first inspirational book on how to mark the millennium in a meaningful way. In 1996, he helped develop the Journey of the Magi in the Middle East, an epic pilgrimage of peace, from Iraq to Bethlehem. Closer to home, from 1998 to 2001, he was the lead designer of the Pikes Peak Millennial Season, or "Springs 2000," Colorado Springs' official program to "honor the past, celebrate the present, and imagine the future." His work as "The Millennium Doctor" has been featured by the L.A. Times and CNN. He is a member of the World Future Society, the American Academy of Religion and the Center for Millennial Studies of Boston University.

Jay Gary is best known among Evangelicals for being the lead developer of Perspectives, an adult study program that now enrolls more than 3,000 people each year. In the 1980s, he also helped start World Christian magazine and served as the program director of Leadership '88, a national conference of the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization. Following that, he helped launch the AD 2000 movement. He speaks regularly to churches, communities, academic societies and national conferences on subjects such as the future of faith, religious violence, postmodern leadership and globalization of education. He is pursuing a Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership at Regent University, with research interests in foresight/prophetic leadership models that Jesus embraced and their correlation to how today's emerging church creates the future.

Dr. Gary is also an Assistant Professor in the M.A. in Strategic Foresight program at Regent University and hosts the annual Foresight conferences for Christian leaders.