Team Members

Kendall Qualls, President TakeCharge Minnesota

Kendall Qualls is a former Republican Candidate for Governor of Minnesota and was recently reinstated as President of TakeCharge. 

Kendall Qualls has a unique vantage point to convey the TakeCharge message and to plant the seeds of change desperately needed in the Twin Cities and across the country. During his childhood, Mr. Qualls lived with his divorced mother and siblings in public housing projects of Harlem, NY in the late 1960s. Before middle school, Mr. Qualls was separated from the other siblings and moved in with their father in a trailer park in Oklahoma. Neither of his parents finished high school. Despite the challenges and turmoil of his early life, Mr. Qualls worked full-time to pay his way through college, served as an officer in the U.S. Army, earned three graduate degrees. He worked his way up the ranks to become a vice president at several Fortune 100 healthcare companies. 

Mr. Qualls champions the principle of meritocracy and supports the notion that free enterprise, and the private sector are the fastest and most equitable way to lift people from poverty to prosperity including black Americans. He also is a champion of religious freedoms, a core tenant of America’s foundation. Mr. Qualls has been married to his wife, Sheila for 35 years and they have five children together. He was a mentor at Minnesota Adult & Teen Challenge. He serves on the Board for Lundstrum’s Performing Arts Center in North Minneapolis as well as Hope Farm School, a school for at-risk boys from Minneapolis.

Kendall Johnson, Founder Underdog Film

Kendall Johnson is a Nashville based film maker and composer. Having attended Vancouver Film School and spending time at Remote Control in Los Angeles, the famed studio of Hans Zimmer, Kendall has and knack for captivating audiences with unique video compositions and cinematic scores.

Kendall is a natural-born story teller and has a passion for telling the unheard stories. Your story is one-of-a-kind. Let Kendall capture it.

Bob Elder, Chief Impact Officer Collide Productions

Bob Elder is an industry leader in Faith & Family Entertainment who has been navigating the transformative media marketplace for the last 30 years; the experience applied from his arduous career continues to strengthen his impact on the landscape of Christian media today.

He held senior buying positions at Family Christian Stores in the ‘90s, facilitating the growth of children’s media and Christian music. As a senior marketing executive at Word Entertainment in Nashville, he was responsible for merchandising multi-platinum recording artists and videos to the Christian retail channel. Bob went on in 1999 to helm the Christian Sales and Marketing Department at Big Idea Productions: the award winning production company and creator of the tremendously influential children’s series, VeggieTales®. In 2002 he branched off and later became the President and COO of Propeller for nearly 10 years, a company wherein he marketed hundreds of Faith-based projects, including the wildly successful films God’s Not Dead, SoulSurfer, Facing the Giants, Heaven is For Real, and The Shack.