For more than 15 years, Daniel has provided innovative leadership to nonprofit organizations, congregations and social enterprises. As principal of Signal Hill, Daniel assists clients with corporate discernment, vision development, program planning, marketing and communications. His passion is to help individuals and groups explore and proclaim their story. Daniel brings to this missionary work an eclectic mix of experiences and gifts.

The son and grandson of Baptist preachers, Daniel is an ordained American Baptist minister as well as a teacher and writer. He has been an instructor in the Duke University Certificate Program in Nonprofit Management, the Caldwell Fellows Program at North Carolina State University, and the Faith-Based Leadership Institute, an ecumencial consortium of faith-related health and human service organizations. Daniel has addressed and led workshops for a variety of associations, including the American Society on Aging, California Association of Homes and Services for the Aging, Transformational Leadership Program of the Council for Health and Human Service Ministries, Lutheran Services in America, United Methodist Association, and National Ministries, American Baptist Churches USA.

Before launching Signal Hill in 1999, Daniel was managing director/creative director of Seniority Communications, an advertising and public relations agency focused on the mature market. He was also director of communications for Seniority’s parent company, American Baptist Homes of the West. Under his leadership, the two companies garnered 51 National Mature Media Awards in four years.

Trained as a journalist, Daniel worked as a reporter and editor for two San Francisco Bay Area community newspapers. A journalistic orientation continues to figure largely in Daniel’s work, as a writer and a keen observer of religion and society.  Daniel has written for The Christian Century, Religion News Service, Associated Baptist Press, FaithWorks, The Christian Citizen, and Baptist Peacemaker. Read Daniel's musings in the Signal Hill Blog.

Daniel earned his master of divinity degree from the American Baptist Seminary of the West and his bachelor of arts in English from California Baptist College.

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