Warren Bird, Ph.D. is author/co-author of 34 books including Hero Maker (theme book of the year for Exponential 2020) and Better Together Healthy Mergers (the leading guidebook on how to do a merger well). His latest co-authored book is on 8 big trends that all churches will face: Becoming a Future-Ready Church.
He is one of the nation’s most widely quoted researchers about the health and growth of today’s church, cited by both mainstream and Christian media. He’s written the “Leadership from the Global Church” column for Outreach magazine since 2014.
Warren serves as senior vice president of research and equipping for ECFA (the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability), where he oversaw the nation’s largest-ever cross-denominational study of church planters, “The New Faces of Church Planting and Multisiting” (ECFA.org/surveys).