Dr. Glenn Barth is passionate about empowering individuals, leaders, and organizations to discover and embrace their core values for meaningful personal and community impact. Since 2007, he has served as President of GoodCities, working with leaders across the U.S. to launch cross-sector collaborations and drive collective impact on key community issues. Through coaching and consultation, Glenn equips individuals and teams to sharpen their missional focus and achieve lasting outcomes.

As a conference leader and keynote speaker, Glenn has influenced leadership teams in cities nationwide. He employs tools like appreciative inquiry to ensure participants fully embrace and execute their visions and plans. Glenn is also the founder of initiatives such as the City Impact Roundtable, City Convene, and the City Impact Accelerator. Previously, he served as founding COO and National Facilitator for City and Community Ministries with the Mission America Coalition.

Earlier in his career, Glenn was a pastor, serving college students at Robert Morris College and Baldwin-Wallace College through the Coalition for Christian Outreach. Ordained in 1984, he has pastored churches in Ohio, Indiana, and Minnesota.

Glenn holds a Doctor of Ministry in “Transformational Leadership for the Global City” from Bakke Graduate University (2008), where he earned the Bakke Scholar award. He also has an M.Div. cum laude from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (1984), where he was named Outstanding Student in Theological Studies and received the John Tate Award. Glenn is a 1977 graduate of Denison University. He and his wife, Kathy, have been happily married for 45 years and are active members of Christ Presbyterian Church in Edina, MN.

Publications include:

• The Good City: Transformed Lives Transforming Communities (2010)

• The Good City Study Guide (2012)

• Multiply Volunteers and Resources (2015, ebook)

• “Dwelling and Working for the Good of the City,” article in The Mission of God Study Bible (2012)

• Various blog articles and videos.