Prior to his call to ministry, Rev. Heatley was an investment banker in the financial services industry, serving as a senior financial analyst with Salomon Smith Barney now Citigroup Corporate Investment Bank in New York, NY. After resigning in 2002, he worked briefly in the public sector as the Deputy Director of Finance/Revenue and Claiming for the NYC Department of Homeless Services.
Rev. Heatley is a 1989 graduate Morehouse College where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics with a Minor in Physics. In 2007, Rev. Heatley completed his Masters of Divinity Degree at the Princeton Theological Seminary. At Princeton, Rev. Heatley was recognized for both homiletical and scholastic excellence, receiving the Jagow Prize for preaching; the John T. Galloway Prize in Expository Preaching as well as the Elder Garnett Hawkins Award for Scholastic Excellence. His sermon, “A Grave Danger Disciples Face,” was published in the Fall 2006 Seminarian Issue of The African American Pulpit.
Currently, Rev. Heatley is a doctoral candidate at The Candler School of Theology Emory University in Atlanta, GA pursuing a doctor of ministry in Biblical Interpretation and Proclamation.
Rev. Heatley is a native of Hartsville, South Carolina. On December 28, 2012, Reverend Heatley married his gift from God in the person of Krystal Heatley from Pensacola, FL. They have two children, William Quincey and Quinn Kelsey.
