About the author
Ryan T. Hartwig, PhD is a practical academic reframing the collaboration conversation in the church. Through research, teaching, writing, and coaching and consulting, he’s trying to help church and ministry leaders create effective, healthy leadership and ministry teams, design collaborative organizational structures, lead with impact, and facilitate life-changing small groups.
Ryan serves on the faculty at Azusa Pacific University in Los Angeles, California. He teaches classes in group communication, organizational communication, leadership, research methods, public speaking, and persuasion.
He earned a PhD in Group and Organizational Communication from the University of Colorado at Boulder, a MSEd in Higher Education Administration from Purdue University, and a BA in Communication and a BS in Interdisciplinary Studies from Colorado Christian University.
Prior to becoming an academic, Ryan led, trained, and developed leadership and ministry teams focusing on community development, discipleship, missions, leadership development, fund-raising, and marketing, for roughly 15 years in universities and churches.
Ryan journeys through life with his wife Jill and their 3 daughters, and lives in La Verne, California.