I’ve walked in your shoes and know what it’s like to live the ups and downs of leadership. I’m pretty sure you’ll agree that the ups are better, and most of us are looking for ways to continually improve upon yesterday.
Although I have an MBA, my real education has come from my experiences of business ownership, entrepreneurial endeavors in 50+ countries and over 300 industries, and my years as a consultant, adviser, and coach hired to help decision-makers achieve their desired outcomes.
The strategies and tools that I teach come from these experiences. Unlike the theoretical BS some consultants spew, everything you learn from me has been tested and proven in the “laboratory” of the real world: by decision makers in commerce, nonprofits, and governments, by my NYU students, and by myself in my own organizations.
Our clients will agree that everything I teach you (and the way I teach it) works.
And I’ll never tell a client to do something that I haven’t or wouldn’t do myself.
David was the Co-founder of ecosystem.AI (San Francisco/Cape Town, SA), a predictive analytics and visualization company finding hidden value in the market and organizational complexity relationships through identified patterns and spatial trends to reveal how business and organizational ecosystems change over time; Co-founder and CEO of TymSync, Inc. (San Diego), a patented-cellphone technology company; Chief Officer of Strategy for N2 (New York), a company specializing in SuperGrid and IOT technology for use in advanced smart city development for the future; and has been an adviser and stakeholder in several innovative startups from around the world; Chief Strategy Officer and Partner in COMO Global SA (Luxembourg) a software company with expertise in managed back end payment solutions for market networks and fully automated invoicing through to reconciliation for large enterprises.
David is the recipient of the Hollywood Producers’ first Global Visionary Disruptor Award for his work with the Project Moon Hut Foundation. In addition, Hollywood Producers also awarded David and Lorrie Goldsmith for their book, Paid to THINK: A Leader’s Toolkit for Redefining Your Future, a work for which David has earned comparisons to Peter Drucker, the father of modern-day management. Considered by some to be the “Thought Leaders’ Thought Leader”, he is known for replacing common leadership thinking with bold, proven, and sometimes counter-intuitive approaches to address challenges and opportunities for leaders in their professional, public, and personal roles.
David has received awards and accolades for his entrepreneurial achievements in various industries. During his twelve years of professoriate at New York University, he received the university’s Excellence in Teaching Award. Meetings Magazine also named him as one of its 26 Hottest Speakers for his ability to deliver transformational and engaging “Consulting from the Stage” programs and spoke for the Wharton School of Business for an unprecedented five consecutive years. His content is drawn from the depth and diversity of 30 years of business and organizational experience as a practicing businessperson, consultant, and adviser to a global client base. His teachings produce “I’ve-never-thought-of-it-that-way” perspectives from leaders across multiple platforms, industries, and environments.
David’s clients include the CEOs, presidents, and CXOs of organizations such as Ferrari, Maersk, Dole, Infosys, Wipro, Aetna, Accenture, Lufthansa, ITW, and more,
David does not subscribe to an all-work and no-play lifestyle. David’s a black belt in Tae Kwon Do, has been a student pilot, experiencing a new culture with “locals” as a world traveler, designing and building his own furniture, a long time ago was a ski racer, loves to draw, paint, and sculpt, can get lost in time when swinging a hammer while doing drywall, plumbing, electrical work, spending time with family, or helping new friends and old, those closest to David attest that he embodies the promise on the cover of Paid to THINK to Achieve More, Earn More, and Live More.
