About Dr. Renee
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Marketplace · Corporate · Nonprofit
Position Dr. Renee first as a crisis-tested leadership strategist who helps people and organizations navigate change, make courageous decisions, realign priorities, and build resilient impact. Faith remains the foundation, but the value is immediately clear without requiring a faith framework.
Best for keynotes, consulting, executive conversations, panels, media, universities, and nonprofit leadership.Church · Ministry · Faith-Based
Position Dr. Renee first as a seasoned faith leader, pastor, transformational teacher, author, and builder. The leadership and strategy remain present, but they are expressed through purpose, faith, resilience, healing, and obedience to the season.
Best for conferences, churches, ministry leadership, women's gatherings, convocations, and faith media.Dr. Renee Fowler Hornbuckle is a crisis-tested transformational leader, speaker, author, strategist, and social-impact architect who helps leaders and organizations navigate pressure, disruption, and transition so they can think clearly, make courageous decisions, realign people and priorities, and move forward with resilient, sustainable impact.
For nearly four decades, Dr. Renee has led at the intersection of leadership development, entrepreneurship, ministry, education, and community transformation. An ordained minister, founding senior pastor, and apostolic overseer, she continues to serve through preaching, teaching, pastoral guidance, spiritual advising, and selected sacred-life moments. Her authority has been forged in real time - in boardrooms, pulpits, classrooms, communities, and seasons that required her to rebuild without losing the wisdom her journey produced.
She is the Founder and CEO of DEE, Inc., established in 1999, and the founder of Women of Influence, Inc. Through DEE, Inc., she translates empowerment into infrastructure by advancing housing, education, leadership, and life-development pathways. Its signature initiative, FINALLY HOME at Rachel's House, supports young women ages 18-24 as they transition from foster care toward stability, independence, and opportunity.
A TEDx speaker and the author of more than twelve books, Dr. Renee is also a Dale Carnegie and John Maxwell trained facilitator and a Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses alumna. Her work has been featured or recognized through platforms including Black Enterprise, WFAA, TBN, Daystar, CORE Magazine, the ESSENCE Festival, NABJ, NAACP, The Potter's House, and MegaFest. CORE Magazine named her among its 2022 CORE 100 Most Influential Blacks Today.
Dr. Renee's signature discipline is recalibration: the intentional practice of pausing, reassessing, and realigning one's thinking, leadership, and next move. Whether advising an executive, equipping an organization, mentoring an entrepreneur, addressing a conference, or serving a faith community, she helps people convert pressure into perspective, experience into wisdom, and disruption into a more courageous way forward.
Grounded in faith and fluent in the language of leadership, Dr. Renee serves marketplace and faith-based audiences without dividing her identity or diluting her message. Her work invites people to stop treating their history as a liability and start using it as evidence that they are prepared to lead what comes next.
Official Short Biography
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Dr. Renee Fowler Hornbuckle is a crisis-tested transformational leader, speaker, author, strategist, ordained minister, and social-impact architect who helps leaders and organizations navigate pressure, disruption, and transition with clarity, courage, and resilient impact. For nearly four decades, she has led across business, nonprofit, ministry, education, and community spaces. A founding senior pastor and apostolic overseer, she continues to serve through ministry and sacred-life moments while equipping marketplace leaders and organizations for strategic transformation. She is Founder and CEO of DEE, Inc., a TEDx speaker, author of more than twelve books, and Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses alumna.
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Marketplace · Corporate · Nonprofit
Our speaker is a crisis-tested transformational leader who helps leaders and organizations navigate pressure, disruption, and transition with clarity, courage, and resilient impact. Dr. Renee Fowler Hornbuckle brings nearly four decades of experience across business, nonprofit leadership, education, and community transformation. She is the Founder and CEO of DEE, Inc., a TEDx speaker, the author of more than twelve books, a Dale Carnegie and John Maxwell trained facilitator, and a Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses alumna. Her work turns hard-won experience into practical strategy for people and organizations ready to realign, rebuild, and lead forward. Please welcome Dr. Renee Fowler Hornbuckle.
Church · Ministry · Faith-Based
Our speaker is an ordained minister, founding senior pastor, apostolic overseer, transformational teacher, author, and builder whose ministry has helped people move from crisis to courage for nearly four decades. Dr. Renee Fowler Hornbuckle carries the wisdom of a pastor, the strategy of an entrepreneur, and the compassion of a leader who has lived what she teaches. She continues to serve through preaching, teaching, pastoral guidance, spiritual advising, and sacred-life moments. Her messages call people to think differently, stand courageously, and realign with God's purpose for the season ahead. Please welcome Dr. Renee Fowler Hornbuckle.