Ike is also Senior Pastor at Piedmont Church. Since 2005, he has guided the building of membership and service to a high and sustainable level. He continues to minister and maintain a strong relationship with his church. Previously, he was Founding Pastor of NorthStar Church and guided that church to unprecedented growth from 1997 until 2006. NorthStar is recognized as a mega church and noted as the fastest growing church start-up in the world’s largest Protestant denomination.
Dr. Dwight “Ike” Reighard is the President and CEO of MUST Ministries, serving almost 34,000 people a year struggling in poverty. Ike has successfully combined business experience with ministry and has an outstanding reputation for transforming communities through serving others.
In the corporate arena, Ike served as Executive Vice President, Chief People Officer and originator of The Office of People and Culture for HomeBanc Mortgage Corporation from 2000 until 2007. HomeBanc was selected and benchmarked in FORTUNE Magazine’s list of the “100 Best Places to Work in America” by the Great Places to Work Institute of San Francisco. Over the four-year span, the company ranked as high as number 14 on this most impressive list of America’s greatest workplaces. The enterprise was also selected in the top two for four straight years in the medium and large size categories as “The A+ Employers of Atlanta” by the Atlanta Business Chronicle. Under Ike’s leadership, this company was nominated and won the 2006 Turknett Leadership award for Leadership Character.
He has co-authored two popular daily inspirational books, “Success Insights” and “Daily Insights”, with Zig Ziglar for Tyndale House Publishing. He is also the author of “Treasures From The Dark”, “Discovering Your North Star” and “Discovering Your North Star Journal” and is contributing author to “Human Capital Management Strategies”. He and his wife, Robin, have two grown daughters, Abigail and Danielle, and a granddaughter, Addison, who live in Cobb County. Robin is the co-owner of CRS Design Firm.