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Speaker, Coach, & Author in Leadership + Strategy


 

Providing Support to High-Potential Leaders and Professionals

 

 
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Don has been highly involved in strategic development and implementation, multi-channel marketing integration, leadership development, and personal/professional brand development. Interviewed and coached hundreds of high-potential candidates.

Spent the last 20 years in a Fortune 100 company within the financial services industry, successfully assuming several leadership and key roles in marketing & advertising, public relations, technology, information services, lending, and customer service. Learned from great leaders within his organization as well as from executives from $1B and up global organizations from board and forums he’s been a part of.

A family man, married to his partner of over 20 years. Father of three kids. One with autism. Coaches basketball at son’s school. PTO Board President. Musician. Cantor at his church.

 

Areas of Practice


career coach

Provides one-on-one support to professionals needing guidance to navigate the next steps in their career path. Coaching can be in person and virtually through video chat, phone, and email correspondence.

 

author + writer

Shares his thoughts through publicly through his blog, white papers, and upcoming books. Highly experienced in contributing to internal communications distributions, as well as social media distribution strategy. Content contributor for topics in leadership, technology, marketing, and productivity.


Speaker

Experienced in topics on leadership, productivity, strategy, and marketing. Don can lead discussions on any topic that suits your organization, with audiences of any size and level.

Experienced in speaker in conferences, webinars, forum panels, training classes, and college lectures.


business consultant

Provides guidance to start-ups and small to mid-size organization.


Mock interview

Experienced in coaching hundreds of job candidates to prepare for job applications, interviews, and new-in-role consultation. His unconventional mock interview does not simply prepare his clients to answer interview questions, but he teaches them on how to attack the interview through pre-work, personal branding, and post-work.


 

 
Don has what he calls the “ultimate interview playbook” which is by far one of the most well written and covered tips for an interview. I would definitely agree with him on his title! I have sent this playbook to two people already which has helped them achieve interview success. I highly recommend Don’s work and subscribing to his subscription.
— Shawn G. (Technical Analyst, HCA IT&S)
 

 
 

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