In pursuit of Christ's eternal objectives, we equip and encourage business leaders to operate their businesses and conduct their personal lives in accordance with biblical principles.
As we do, we thrive personally, professionally and in serving others. Our influence grows, our lives become an example for others to follow and Christ is honoured in the workplace.
Crown Marketplace Institute in AFRICA has a close working agreement with FCCI which has the following vision and mission statement:
CMI Vision Statement: To see the followers of Christ in every nation faithfully living by God’s financial principles in every area of their lives. CMI Mission Statement: Equipping people worldwide to learn, apply and teach God’s financial principles so they may know Christ more intimately, be free to serve Him, and help fund the Great Commission.
Dr Mario Denton was born in 1955 in Cape Town, South Africa and has a solid Christian praying and committed family background. He came to Christ when he was 16 years old.
Mario is the study leader of 160 MBA research projects, has published nine books
and various articles and has delivered papers at 32 conferences worldwide. He is an international teacher, industrial psychologist, holds two counselling diplomas and two master's degrees (MBA and MeCon from Stellenbosch University) and has completed his PhD as well as DBA in Organisational Behaviour at Calvary University. He has presented People Management practices 44 times consecutively to MBA students without being absent for even one day and has trained close to 2 000 participants and students in Emotional Intelligence.
Mario uses his strong academic and corporate background and his uniquely effective coaching to help people tap into their inner being to utilise their strengths and expand their skills to make a difference in the workplace. He teaches People Management, Lleadership, Emotional and Spiritual Intelligence, Organisational Behaviour and Change Management and has done this in Tanzania, France (11 times), Belgium, Denmark, Germany (three times), Austria and Switzerland.
He attended the Haggai international training in Maui, Hawaii in 2004 and the Faculty Development training in Singapore in 2005 and is actively involved as one of the international faculty members for the Haggai Group. Mario has been married to Mariene since 1979 and has three sons, Du Wayne who is married to Zani, Desmond and Marinus, and a granddaughter Amelie.
So who is Mario?
Mario is an established, passionate, international workplace facilitator, making a significant difference in business leaders' lives by training, coaching, consulting and facilitating with them to learn, apply and teach God's stewardship principles in their companies.
• M aster in his study field. He knows where he is going and what he wants to achieve.
• A vailable. He is available to serve, be it professionally or in friendship.
• R ight standing with God. Loves God and will seek ways to please God and want God's blessings in what he does.
• I lluminates a servant-leadership character.
• O bservant of what goes on around him. Identifies new ideas and challenges in his surroundings. (Words from Charmaine Kapp on his 50th birthday)
To God all the Glory
Mario reports to an advisory Committee which include Jonathan Shaw his mentor and previously the International Vice-President of FCCI, Doug Hunter, CEO of FCCI in Atlanta and various selected and co-opted advisory committee members.
CORE VALUES
MILESTONES
Crown Marketplace Institute is a global organisation with the vision of transforming our world through Christ … one company leader at a time and a mission to equip and encourage company leaders to operate their businesses and conduct their personal lives in accordance with biblical principles. Since 1977, when Robert "Bobby" Mitchell and a handful of Christian business leaders met to answer a simple question, “What would Jesus do if he ran my business?” the organisation has transformed the lives of thousands of business leaders, and through them hundreds of thousands of employees, clients and vendors.
As we look to the future, we see an unprecedented opportunity to unite business leaders worldwide and see Christ honoured in the workplace as never before.
CRITICAL NUMBERS
ONE Committed fully-engaged Holy Spirit-filled workplace visionary
TEN Holy Spirit-filled CHANGE AGENTS
HUNDRED intercessors
THOUSAND significant Investors
TEN THOUSAND small groups
HUNDRED THOUSAND Workplace coaching forum members receiving updates and newsletters about programmes and activities
ONE MILLION Workplace CDs for business people on business biblical and stewardship principles
TEN MILLION reached by radio and television
"Attempt to do something so great for God that it is doomed to failure, unless God be in it." - Dr. John E. Haggai.
“…for I am doing something in your own day, something you wouldn’t believe even if someone told you about it.” Acts 13:41b
