The Chicago Tribune said the lawsuit against Byron Yawn, CEO of Nashville area counseling firm Forrest Crain and Co., is looking for $6 million in punitive and compensatory damages through a jury trial.Īccording to the Tribune, the complaint filed on May 6 in Nashville Circuit Court accuses Yawn, who was acting as the Zobrists’ marriage counselor and executive director of Ben’s charity, “usurped the ministerial-counselor role, violated and betrayed the confidence entrusted to him by the plaintiff, breached his fiduciary duty owed to the plaintiff and deceitfully used his access as counselor to engage in an inappropriate sexual relationship with the plaintiff’s wife. A subpoena was issued for Byron Yawn, CEO of Forrest Crain and Co. Yawn also was an executive with a not-for-profit organization Ben Zobrist founded.
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No one would know he’s a professional athlete because of his heart and his disposition. Now retired after a 13-year major-league baseball career, Zobrist is seeking 6 million in damages from Byron Yawn, the CEO of Forrest Crain & Co., a Nashville-area business-consulting. Ben is a very consistent, very unassuming man.
(WIBW) - Former Royals star Ben Zobrist is suing his pastor for having an affair with his wife, Julianna Zobrist, and defrauding his charity, Patriot Forward Charity.Īccording to a report from the Chicago Tribune, Ben Zobrist, a former Royal and Chicago Cubs utility player, filed a lawsuit that accuses his former pastor of having sex with his wife Julianna and defrauding his charity foundation. The guest of honor was Byron Yawn, the Zobrists pastor and counselor. He’s a man without guile, said Byron Yawn, pastor of Community Bible Church in Nashville, Tenn., where Zobrist and his wife Julianna are members. Outside of the workplace, Byron enjoys spending time with his three adult children, reading/writing, being a foodie and cycling.CHICAGO, Ill. The lawsuit against Byron Yawn, CEO of the Nashville-area counseling firm Forrest Crain and Co., seeks 6 million in punitive and compensatory damages through a jury trial.
Raised in Mississippi, Byron attended Mississippi College where he earned his BA in History and Literature, eventually going on to earn his Doctorate in Public Communication. Attorney Christopher Bellamy of Nashville-based Neal and Harwell, who represents Yawn in the civil suit, told the Tribune last month that Yawn is looking forward to setting the record straight. Essentially, Byron has spent his time helping organizations scale by capturing the most elusive resource of all – the experience of the founder/leader. As a wordsmith and systems guy, Byron’s love is helping clarify purpose and creating alignment in the companies we work with.īefore coming on with Petra, Byron founded Forrest Crain & Company – a small consulting firm, specializing in taking the personal practices of leaders in various fields and using them to create a business model, job description and workflow around the role to re-fill it successfully after an exit. Beginning in 2005, Zobrist and his wife regularly attended Community Bible Church in Nashville, Tennessee, where Byron Yawn was Senior Pastor. We call these words “Core Values.” And the degree to which a company is aligned with their core values is the degree to which they will succeed in their mission. Yawn was the Senior Pastor and Elder at Community Bible Church in Nashville, Tennessee, where he was employed for approximately twenty years as both pastor and elder.
Byron believes that every company comes down to – not goods, services or money – but a set of words.
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