Dan Reiland

Dan Reiland is the executive pastor at 12Stone Church in Lawrenceville, Georgia, and the author of several books including Confident Leader! Become One, Stay One (Thomas Nelson).

How to Manage Your Stress as a Leader

Ask someone how they’re doing. The common response: “I’m good, thanks!” Here’s the more candid version I’m hearing these days. “I think I’m pretty good, but I’m...

10 Things Great Leaders Practices Do

Leadership is more important now than ever. In fact, good leadership is essential if we hope to make progress toward a better future. In well over three decades, Ive had the privilege to connect with thousands of leaderssome for a short time, and many in great depth. These many connections have allowed me to identify certain great leaders practices that the best leaders I know consistently practice. (Not perfectly, but consistently.)

5 Tips for Leading in Exceptional Times

What began as a major disruption has become a way of life. Not permanently, but for an open-ended and unknown duration of time. COVID-19 has changed...

How Strong Is Your Leadership?: A 3-Point Evaluation

Every leader has their own productive strengths, internal capacities and external opportunities. That’s part of what makes each of us unique. And within that,...

5 Simple Steps to Grow Leadership Skills

If I want my influence to help my community be a better place to live, I must first become a better leader. Culture doesnt hold steady or remain the same; therefore, the level of our leadership cannot remain the same. I cant remember a time when circumstances changed so fast, and the future remained so […] Learn how to grow leadership skills in this guide.

How to Refresh When the World Makes You Weary

Early in March, the prevailing thought was that we’d all be back in buildings for church services by May. Very few expected the COVID pandemic...

4 Guiding Principles for Leading on Race Issues

The number one question and conversation Ive been engaged in with leaders across the country is literally, How do we lead on race issues in times like these? There are far more questions than answers. Leadership principles remain true and clear, but context and culture are moving rapidly and are blurred at best. The good news is that […]

How to Find Stability in a Season of Disruption

Ive been a runner for decades, well, more like a jogger. I dont run far, I dont run fast, and I dont run pretty, but its 3.1 miles every day. One thing Ive learned is that finding stability in disruption is key, especially when I dont run well on an unstable surface. Jogging in beach sand, rocky surfaces or a potholed grass field […]