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CAREER DEVELOPMENT AND ADVANCEMENT

Insights from a vast experience in hiring – screening candidates, negotiating contracts and overseeing transition logistics – position clients for selection and advancement. Dave has served on and chaired dozens of search teams for a variety of jobs, from entry-level to C-suite positions, and he has coached and mentored individuals who have achieved their goals and improved their well-being along the way.

  • Securing first job

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  • Career transition

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  • Long-range career planning

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  • Networking skills

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  • Interview skills, including mock interviews and video analysis of interviewing techniques

  • Resume development

 

  • Cover letter and development of writing samples

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  • Creation of 90-day plans to use during interviews and applications or as part of onboarding process.

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LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

Dave knows how to coach because he’s been coached by some of the world’s top leadership advisors (Aspen Leadership Institute, ACE Fellowship, Leadership Development Worldwide, Bloombase, Northwestern ELOC). Dave understands not only what it takes to be a good coach but also how to be a good partner as the person being coached.

  • Growth through self-knowledge and habits of mind necessary for strategic thinking and interpersonal relationships.

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  • Leadership through immersion into the culture, policies and highest-level decision-making processes.

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  • Knowing how to engage in crucial conversations – effective communication when the stakes are high.

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  • Improve executive presence and body intelligence.

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EXECUTIVE COACHING FOR INDIVIDUALS AND TEAMS

Dave can assist clients starting a new job, undertaking new responsibilities, considering a career change or looking to be more effective in their personal or professional life. Dave helps clients build social competence and develop networks and communities to develop their personal brand and presence and enhance their well-being. The focus is on developing a holistic approach to creating and maintaining appropriate personal and professional balance.

  • Improve relationships through curiosity, collaboration and whole-heartedness.

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  • Leverage strengths and mitigate potential derailers.

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  • Develop a framework for personal accountability and execution that leads to positive development.

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  • Engage key stakeholders to understand individual and team needs.

  • Enhance confidence and self-esteem.

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  • Create a direct and transparent approach for performance evaluation and improvement.

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  • Explore and identify areas of curiosity and passion that will sustain long-term satisfaction.

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STRATEGIC PLANNING

Dave has extensive experience in short- and long-term planning for individuals, teams and organizations. He has developed strategic plans for multiple nonprofit organizations and served on several planning committees responsible for developing narrowly focused short-term plans to broad-based, long-range plans for large, diverse national organizations.

  • Develop compelling mission and vision statements.

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  • Create meaningful, measurable and achievable goals and related objectives.

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  • Identify and engage key stakeholders.

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  • Connect plans to resources and priorities.

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  • Identify accountability measures, including timelines and delivery dates.

Strategic Planning
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COLLEGE SELECTION

Dave’s experience in higher education has led to interaction with colleges and universities across the country. He has visited more than 100 campuses and interviewed and educated campus leaders on those campuses. He has more than two decades of engagement with campus leaders, including president, professors, students and athletics personnel.

  • Help students and their families list ideal and preferred college characteristics, resulting in priorities to guide decisions.

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  • Narrow the overwhelming number of possibilities to a manageable group.

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  • Identify schools for campus visits and help create meaningful agendas for the visit.

  • Develop key questions to ask professors, enrolled students, campus administrators and community members

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  • Help families analyze marketing platforms to reveal authentic campus culture.

College Selection
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