Warren Bird

Warren Bird, Ph.D., is Senior VP of Research at ECFA (Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability). Previously he was Research Director at Leadership Network.

He's an award-winning author/co-author of 35 books for pastors, church leaders, church boards, and seminary professors. Bird researches cutting-edge churches and works with their leaders to multiply their evangelistic and disciple-making impact.

He is widely recognized as one of the nation’s leading researchers of growing churches, megachurches, multisite churches, large church compensation and high-visibility pastoral succession. He also oversees the world’s only active, sortable list of global megachurches at exponential DOT org SLASH world. Follow him on Linkedin at /wbird or X (Twitter) @warrenbird