Training & development - the theme and passion of my life
"My passion for training and development came from observing how
a key piece of information, another approach, a new technique,
could totally change the game for a person," Dan says. "And how the
process of looking for these 'golden nuggets' could start a
generative change - how a person, by raising their self-awareness
and become better at whatever they desired, would start to see
themself differently."
Having run a successful manufacturing business, he changed
direction completely when he turned 30. He achieved success
in a sales environment, building an International sales
organisation of 45,000 distributors. He then studied with
Richard Bandler, the co-founder of NLP, as he had an insight that
the driver of leaders' success was in their commitment to personal
and professional development.
"I saw that my real passion was in teaching and training - the
theme of my life, if you will, was in acting as a catalyst and
facilitator. From apprentices in my factory, to being a
motivational trainer in front of thousands, my greatest sense of
fulfilment always came from reminding people of how much more life
could be."
He then founded a training consultancy that taught managers and
executives in Fortune 500 companies communication and leadership
skills, performance management, and inter-personal skills
development. His clients included some of the largest
retailers in Europe, professional service firms, and well-known
logistics and manufacturing companies
A client asked him to come onboard as a Sales Director, then he
joined a Chinese global direct sales company with 16 million
distributors, serving as Vice President responsible for 26 European
markets.
He is currently the President of an international group of
companies involved in social networking, sales and marketing, and
online retailing, in addition to being Programme Training Director
of the Oxford Programme.