Virtual Roundtables

Alan was on staff at Life.Church for almost 10 years, serving primarily as the Church Online Pastor. Life.Church is based in Oklahoma, United States, and is a multi-site church that founded the YouVersion Bible App. Life.Church Online was founded in 2006 and today reaches people from countries all over the world through nearly 100 digital church services weekly, led by a global volunteer team from over 55 different countries. Currently, Alan partners with churches and leaders to help them identify how they can leverage technology to further the Gospel and reach people like never before - one of his greatest passions.

Brian is the founding and senior pastor of Crossroads Church. He has authored four books including his best-seller, The Five Marks of a Man. He also hosts “The Aggressive Life with Brian Tome”, a weekly podcast that has surpassed one million downloads. As an entrepreneur, Brian has opened several other non-profits and started Man Camp, a primitive weekend camping experience that has helped tens of thousands of men reclaim the code of manhood. An avid hunter and adventure motorcyclist, Brian is married with three children and lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Dan Reiland is a coach, consultant, author, teacher, husband, father and grandfather. He brings decades of local church executive leadership experience to his current ministry endeavors that focus on helping leaders excel.

Dan currently serves on the lead team, church board and is Executive Director of Leadership Expansion at 12Stone Church in Lawrenceville, Georgia where he served for 20 years as the Executive Pastor. He previously partnered with John Maxwell for 20 years, first as Executive Pastor at Skyline Wesleyan Church in San Diego, then as Vice President of Leadership and Church Development at Maxwell Leadership (Previously INJOY).

Dan is best known as a leader with a pastor’s heart and a coach’s intuition. He truly loves the local church and is considered one of the nation’s most insightful executive leadership coaches and church consultants, bringing wisdom and experience to the process. Dan has written 4 books on the church and church leadership and writes a weekly blog at danreiland.com.

Dan and his wife Patti have two children, a son-in-law, and one granddaughter. In his leisure time, he’s a collector of really cool guitars! If you are curious, you can check them out here!

Darin has been on staff at Crossroads Community Church for 21 years and has served as the Executive Pastor for the past 19 years. He currently serves on the Board of Spiritual Directors for Crossroads Church as well as the Board of Directors for Undivided, a racial solidarity movement. Prior to working at Crossroads, Darin spent 16 years in corporate business including 8 years in brand management for “Crest” at Procter & Gamble. He has a BS in Management and Marketing from Georgia Tech and an MBA in Finance, Statistics, and Accounting from the University of Chicago. Darin has been married for 33 years to his wife Pamela and they have 2 children, Tommy 27 years old and Maya 24. Tommy and his wife Tristine also recently made Darin a grandfather with newborn Jonah.

Kyle Ranson is a pastor and leader of creative product development with over 15 years of experience building and leading highly innovative and effective teams. For the past decade, he has served on the executive leadership team at Crossroads Church overseeing physical and digital experiences for all ages, software development, social media and marketing, content creation, and generosity. In his time serving, Crossroads has twice been named the Fastest Growing church in America and has recently seen its online church experience tremendous growth.

Larry was born and raised in Southern California. During his tenure as the lead pastor at North Coast Church in San Diego, he oversaw its growth from a small church plant with 70 adults to one of the largest and most influential churches in the country (with 8 local campuses, and a weekend physical attendance exceeding 13,000). 

Larry is responsible for numerous innovative ministry strategies that have been widely adopted by the church at large; including the use of Teaching Teams, Sermon-Based Small Groups, and Video Venues, which spawned the modern Multisite movement. 

He is the author of 10 books, including Sticky Church, Sticky Teams, Lead Like A Shepherd, Accidental Pharisees, and Thriving in Babylon. 

He currently serves as a Kingdom Ambassador and a Teaching Pastor at North Coast Church, focusing on mentoring and coaching high-performance pastors, leaders, and churches, along with various church planting movements. His clients have included 19 of the 100 Largest Churches and 22 of the Fastest Growing Churches in the most recent Outreach 100 compilations. 

Larry has both a Master of Theology and Doctor of Ministry degree from Talbot Theological Seminary. He and his wife Nancy live in Oceanside, CA, and are blessed to have all three of their grown and married children living nearby along with their eight grandchildren.

Vivienne is a co-founder of her multi-site church Crossroads in Cincinnati.  She spent 27 years working in Corporate America before coming on staff at Crossroads. Vivienne started the Studio Team at Crossroads Church, which is their internal agency of marketing, analytics, research, design, and digital products to help Crossroads reach new people, connect them with God, and get involved in our community. She currently leads the Growth team for Crossroads with responsibility for Site Expansion, Leader Academy (staff leadership pipeline development), and Staff Communication & Culture. She's passionate about developing leaders and investing in women.