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Dan’s coaching philosophy is best summed up by Shakespeare: “Beware of the stories you tell yourself, for you will surely be lived by them.” Those who partner with Dan as their coach soon discover -- and re-write -- the outworn, personal narratives that have been holding them back from being fully effective. Coaching Experience by Sector: • 14 years coaching leaders and senior executives in the following sectors: Higher Education, Secondary School Systems, Healthcare & Biomedical Sciences, Transportation & Logistics, Retail, Commercial Construction, U.S. Federal Government, Global Non-Profits & NGOs, Alternative Energy, Insurance Brokerage, Enterprise Software & I/T Solutions. Client Success Stories: • Change Management: Dan’s client sought coaching following their promotion to a director position within an organization undergoing significant structural change. Conflict with peers had reached the boiling point. The client began with a 360 assessment, which revealed room for growth in key areas: self-regulation; considering alternative perspectives; and principled use of personal and positional power. Coaching involved a dialogical exploration of the client’s interpersonal patterns and how their cultural upbringing conditioned their triggered responses to others. Insights generated allowed this leader to experiment with new leadership behaviors. The engagement concluded with the client reporting feeling calmer when working things out with “difficult peers;” having greater political skill to effect change; and more often acting on points of view different from their own. The client's immediate superior noted "dramatic, positive changes" in their direct report's ability to adapt to change and handle conflict. The client also realized significant gains in sleep quality and job satisfaction. • CEO Leadership: Having been hired by a venture capital firm to stand up a new business, its CEO engaged Dan to assist with how to develop the C-suite team, gain alignment with the investor group, and achieve greater work-life balance. Coaching succeeded in liberating the client from what for many senior leaders are common, self-limiting internal narratives; as a result, the client increasingly set proper boundaries, made timely, high-quality investment and personnel decisions, and tapped even more into their sharp business acumen. • Team-cohesion and leadership-development program for the 15-person, information-technology directorate of a $1 billion, non-profit organization. Dan’s design tied together action-learning, individual coaching, team coaching and annual retreats for the directorate; and Dan facilitated and coached throughout the process. • Flagship leadership-development program for 100 senior vice presidents at an international NGO, in collaboration with a Top 25 business school. Dan co-designed the coaching element (and coached 15 leaders), delivered classroom tutorials and facilitated 20-person, group dialogues. • Culture-and-climate-change initiative for a 45-person unit within a federal government agency. Dan led the program design, which combined team-coaching for two levels of management, peer coaching and community gatherings for the entire office. He coached team leader and the management group and led the 5-person coaching team. The effort resulted in dramatic, measurable improvement of the unit’s Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey scores. • Next-generation leadership program for a large professional-services firm, in collaboration with another Top 25 business school. Dan consulted on design of the program’s coaching element for 70 mid-level managers being groomed to take VP and managing director positions; he coached ten of the program participants after debriefing their self-assessments and 360-degree-feedback results. Professional Experience: • Since 2013, Dan has served as a coach for American University’s prestigious Key Executive Leadership Programs. To date, he has coached 300 federal-agency leaders on their journey to be eligible for Senior Executive Service positions in government. • Prior to becoming a leadership coach in 2011, Dan spent 28 years as an equity partner in an international information company. As the company expanded from a start-up to 1,500 employees, he held roles including publishing director, division president, and board member. For six of those years, he oversaw the design and delivery of internal leadership-development programs for the firm’s 150 managers and senior executives. Credentials: • Master Certified Coach, International Coach Federation • Professional Certificate of Advanced Study in Coaching Supervision, Oxford Brookes University • Certificate in Leadership Coaching, Georgetown University • B.S., Agriculture, University of Maryland, College Park
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