Joe Myers is a multiprenuer, interventionist, conversationalist, author, and thinker.

He has released The Search to Belong: Rethinking Intimacy, Community, and Small Groups with the Zondervan/ eys imprint. His new book, Organic Community: creating a place where people naturally connect (Baker) continues the thought journey from the first book.

Joe has spent the last several years in study and research discovering how language influences community development.

Joe owns a consulting firm, FrontPorch, which specializes in creating conversations that promote and develop community. He has helped congregations, architectural firms, community planners, and Human Resource departments.

He is a founding partner of a communication arts group, settingPace.

Joe also is the president of the board for BLOC Ministries, a non-profit movement that strengthens families through student communities. BLOC helps 20,000 students a year in the Cincinnati area.

Joe has become a national speaker and consultant on discovering how people develop a healthy experience of belonging and community in their lives. He has spoken on topics like:

• Who Is My Neighbor? Rethinking the Definition of Congregation
• Belonging and Believing: Connecting the Dots
• Meet me on the Front Porch: Rethinking our Placemaking
• Group Chemistry: Playing with the Chemical Compound for Community
• Intimacy and Other Gross Things about Small Groups
• Give Me Some Space: Implementing the Principles of the Language of Belonging
• Worship and Other Sacred Spaces
• Small Groups and Other Lies We Believe About Community

Joe is working on a writing project with Leonard Sweet. The Leadership Myth helps in the journey across the emerging landscape that leaders find themselves in.