For 25 years Dan has been a practising management consultant, working primarily with state & local government, healthcare, K-12 education, higher education, and nonprofits. Dan holds a Master of Business Administration from the Albers School of Business and Economics at Seattle University, he is a certified Kaplan/Norton Balanced Scorecard graduate, a Certified Lean Practitioner from Arizona State University, and a Project Manager Professional. In addition, he is a Baldrige examiner and holds certifications in strategic planning and group facilitation.

He is the author of 2 books, the first, Transformation Management was published in 2003 by Spiro Press in England, his most recent book, Leveraging the Genetics of Leadership, Cracking the code of sustainable team performance is published by Aviva Publishing out of New York. Leveraging the Genetics of Leadership looks at how organizations that consistently perform at elite levels approach the practice of leadership and from his research argues that organizational leadership is a system and not a person.

Recent data by the Gallup Organization documents that 66% of the workforce is either non-engaged or actively sabotaging their workplace. However, in the highest performing organizations, these numbers are nearly reversed. 70% Of the workforce is engaged and fully contributing to the growth and success of their organization. Four years ago, and after 20+ years in management consulting, I began to ask the questions, how do these few by high performing organizations, approach the practice of leadership? What I discovered is that their approach to leadership is radically different. In short, they approach it systemically to create a consistent experience for their workforce.

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