Daniel is the Director of Church Multiplication for LifeWay Christian Resources. He leads NewChurches.com, an online hub for the mission of church multiplication. He serves as a Teaching Pastor at The Fellowship, a multisite church in Nashville. He is also the co-author of Planting Missional Churches: Your Guide to Starting Churches That Multiply (2nd Edition) with Ed Stetzer.

Daniel has an M.A. in Global Leadership from Fuller Theological Seminary and is passionate about leadership and the local church. He loves to be a part of creating the systems, strategies, tools and resources to help new churches get planted, campuses get started, and multiplication to happen. Before coming to LifeWay, he served and pastored in church plants and multisite churches ranging from 100 people to 50,000 people in Vancouver, Ottawa, Montreal, Korea, and Edmonton.

Daniel is a scholar-practioner who can not only create theory, but also implement it in an innovative way to solve problems. His experience and strength is in creating alignment and momentum within teams and churches by implementing strategies and systems to move the church towards multiplication. In other words, he is a strategic thinker that can produce, rather than a strategic thinker that can muse.

Daniel is also a Gallup Strengths Performance Coach (Strengths Advisor) and has led over 600 people through the StrengthsFinder assessment in multiple countries. He is a Maximizer, Learner, Intellection, Developer, Strategic, Achiever, Input, and Relator.