Speaking & Faculty
Bring the word into the room.
Conferences. Congregations. Classrooms. Corporations. For rooms that want the word to arrive with substance — and stay after he leaves.
E. Derrik Porter brings one voice into every room he enters — thinking that has become preaching, preaching that continues to think. His work moves fluidly across three modes: the pulpit, the lectern, and the coaching room. He brings the same theological precision and pastoral warmth to each, calibrated to what the room needs.
Spirit
Preaching
Sunday pulpits. Revivals. Conference plenaries. Prophetic-pastoral preaching with theological rigor and rhetorical craft.
Substance
Faculty & Lecture
Ministerial institutes, seminaries, and conferences. Lecture series on leadership, formation, and Black congregational life.
Style
Keynote & Development
Corporate keynotes and leadership intensives. Formation frameworks for teams navigating cultural and moral complexity.
Signature topics
What he brings.
- Formation and the ministry of subtraction
- Moral courage in Black congregational life
- Leadership through pastoral shadow
- Preaching that thinks — thinking that preaches
- Youth, presence, and the making of adults
- The Golden Thread — disciplined alignment for leaders
Recent faculty
Salt & Light META Conference
2026 · Elmsford, NY
He served as vendor and faculty member heading Curriculum & Preachers alongside Robert Kirkland, under Presiding Bishop Dr. James N. Hassell. Four days of formation for the leaders whose rooms could not afford them not to be ready.
It is also where Thresholds made its debut — launched from the room it was written for, alongside its companion album Through.
The session tool built for that room — Stand In or Step In, the Leadership Development & Succession diagnostic — remains available at ederrikporter.com/meta. Bring one leader to the table.
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Invite E. Derrik Porter
Preach the pulpit. Anchor the plenary. Teach the institute. Send the details and you will hear back within three business days.