Brian Sanders

As a serial entrepreneur, Brian has helped to start hundreds of missional enterprises, including churches, nonprofits, and businesses all over the world. Most notably, Brian is the founder and former Executive Director of the Underground Network; an international coalition of mission-driven communities; creating ecosystems of faith, creativity, and empowered social enterprise. Based in Tampa, the Underground now has movement hubs in 17 cities and 7 countries.

Brian is a specialist in systems theory, change management, and collective impact. He holds degrees in Communication (BA, University of Florida), Religion (MA, University of South Florida), and Applied Theology (MA, Spurgeon’s College, London). He is the author of 10 books including Underground Church (Zondervan, 2018) and Microchurches: A Smaller Way (UGM, 2019), The 6 Seasons of Calling (Moody, 2022), and Five Keys to Cross-Organizational Collaboration (UGM, 2023). Brian has lived with his wife and six children in an intentional community in the inner city for more than twenty years, embodying the ideas that drive him.