Morris E. Ruddick
Entrepreneur, consultant, minister and business owner, Morris Ruddick has led development of entrepreneurial activities in critical needy areas with combined business–ministry initiatives, with a focus on assisting believers in lands of persecution and distress. Since 1995, he has been at the forefront of encouraging and mobilizing spiritually-minded business leaders to combine their entrepreneurial and spiritual gifts to build communities and impact their nations.
Mr. Ruddick’s Kingdom agendas have spanned five continents with hands-on activities in Russia, Belarus, Ethiopia, Botswana, South Africa, Afghanistan , Israel, China, Hong Kong and Vietnam. His Kingdom business initiatives have included biblical entrepreneurial startup programs and leadership training and coaching for those called as Kingdom community builders and modern-day Josephs. He is the author of The Joseph-Daniel Calling and God’s Economy, Israel and the Nations, as well as numerous articles on spiritual warfare; God’s marketplace agendas; the entrepreneurial, community and spiritual riches of God’s Kingdom; the combined gifts for the marketplace; Kingdom entrepreneurs and the prophetic; and the dynamics of markets in change.
Mr. Ruddick has been on the board of Marilyn Hickey Ministries since 1991. He is a member of the Messianic Jewish Alliance. Mr. Ruddick has been a board member of several international ministry organizations. He served as Corporate Secretary of the segment of the International Christian Chamber of Commerce that produced the popular Chinese television series “You Can Start a Business.” Mr. Ruddick has been a keynote speaker and workshop leader for numerous national and international leadership summits, CEO forums and marketplace conferences; and is a member of the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Ministry Marketing and Management.
Over the years, he has served executive-suite management with his planning and strategy development talents in a diversity of progressive mid-sized operations, ministry organizations, and a diversity of well-known multi-national companies. He was at the helm of designing and implementing two successful corporate turnarounds, one being for a $1.4 billion firm. His specialty for both the business and ministry spheres is in evaluating the dynamics impacting changing and emerging markets. |
