Walker is native son of North Carolina. He spent most of his childhood and adolescent years in Asheboro where he claims “was the best place a young man could grow up, but not too fast.” Unlike some, he had great parents, a better than average sister, a loving extended family, and a large group of pals, many of whom he stays in touch with to this day.

He later graduated from Wake Forest University in 1984 with a BA in History and from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1988 with an M.Div. He now resides in Winston-Salem where he leads a non-profit organization designed to help churches be a transformative blessing in their communities. Together, he and his wife have four adult children, four grandchildren and serve as dog-wranglers to a rambunctious labradoodle named Beau. These are some of the more traditional, obligatory biographical facts you would come to expect from a site like this.  

But like any other story, it is the detours and even dead ends that make any narrative interesting. For instance, over the years Walker has had anything but a normal vocational trajectory. Whether he was running a team for a large janitorial service company; starting new churches; coaching Fortune 500 executives; speaking to hundreds of religious leaders; or revitalizing a 136-year-old non-profit organization, one common thread reappears – he has spent his entire career helping people grow and develop.