Bring Scripture to Life at Your Next Event


You want your audience to grow in Christ—to understand Scripture more deeply and follow Jesus more faithfully in everyday life.

Marina brings biblical teaching and lived faith to the questions that shape our leadership, families, and walk with God. She guides audiences to encounter Scripture with fresh understanding and carry its wisdom into daily life.

Dr. Marina Hofman is an Associate Professor of Ministry and Theology at Southeastern University and an award-winning author. She has spoken to audiences in the United States, Canada, South America, and Africa.

She brings together years of biblical scholarship with faith lived through personal hardship. The journey of surviving a life-threatening head-on collision deepened her understanding of suffering, hope, and God’s presence.

Speaking Topics

  • Lead Like Christ in a Culture of Pressure and Performance

    Lead Like Christ in a Culture of Pressure and Performance

    Drawing on Scripture, Marina explores how power and influence shape leaders, the people they lead, and organizational culture. She invites Christ-like leaders to center their leadership on Christ and steward their influence for the flourishing of others.
    What is my work producing in the people I lead—and who am I becoming as I lead?

  • Everyday Faith for Your Family

    Everyday Faith for Your Family

    Marina offers parents, grandparents, and teachers simple, grace-filled ways to nurture children who know and love Jesus, showing how faith can take root in everyday conversations, practices, and care.

  • Courage, Leadership, and Faithful Influence from Women in the Bible

    Courage, Leadership, and Faithful Influence from Women in the Bible

    Marina explores women’s stories in Scripture, helping audiences see each woman in her biblical context and consider what her story reveals about God and faithful living today. She can shape the presentation around the biblical women and themes most relevant to your audience.

  • Suffering, Recovery, and Hope in God

    Suffering, Recovery, and Hope in God

    Drawing on Scripture and her experience of trauma and recovery after a life-threatening car accident, Marina reflects on vulnerability, God’s sustaining presence, and where hope can take root amid suffering.

  • “Marina Hofman is the Bible teacher and spiritual mentor we all wish we had.”

    KADI COLE, leadership consultant, executive coach, and author of Developing Female Leaders and Find Your Leadership Voice in 90 Days

  • “Hofman’s skills as a careful reader of Scripture stand behind her analysis of each character. Her probing questions push us to think about the significance of the stories of our biblical foremothers for our lives today.”

    MARION TAYLOR, PhD, Old Testament professor, Wycliffe College, University of Toronto

  • “Hofman offers ... models for taking risky or bold action, showing self-sacrificial love, waiting patiently for God to answer prayer, influencing and leading people, and being Christ to others.”

    CYNTHIA LONG WESTFALL, PhD, associate professor of New Testament, McMaster Divinity College, and author of Paul and Gender

  • “Marina Hofman, PhD, is a lover of God, of truth, of knowledge and understanding, and of people. She cares deeply about equipping people in their full identity available through God in Christ, and especially on behalf of women. Hofman is a gift to the world and to all who hunger for deeper knowledge of the truth that sets us free.”

    COLONEL JANET MUNN, DMin, Director of The Salvation Army International Social Justice Commission

Select Speaking Engagements

Marina’s speaking engagements include churches, conferences, leadership events, parenting seminars, and university settings.

Invite Marina to Speak

Marina speaks in person and by video to English-speaking audiences, and can also present through a translator.
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