Dan Pontefract on Clubhouse

Bio

Leadership strategist, author, speaker.
4-time TEDx. Thinkers50 Radar. Human being. Helping people reach their full potential.

📚 New book: LEAD. CARE. WIN. How to Become a Leader Who Matters ➕ three more to consider: OPEN TO THINK, THE PURPOSE EFFECT and FLAT ARMY.

💡 Inc. Magazine Top 100 Leadership Speaker. HR Weekly 100 Most Influential People in HR. PeopleHum Top 200 Thought Leader. Engagedly Top 100 HR Influencer.

🎤 Available for keynotes, workshops, consultative assessments, and other engagements.

🧭 20-years of real world leadership and culture change experience. (The highs and lows.)

✍️ Contributor at Forbes and HBR.

♥️ 2013 Dad of the Year. (Biased voting.) Now raising three teens in a pandemic. Help!

🤗 Big time hugger on hiatus. he/him 🇨🇦

👉 www.danpontefract.com

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📜 Full Bio

Dan is the founder and CEO of Pontefract Group, a firm that improves the state of leadership and organizational culture.

He is the best-selling author of four books: LEAD. CARE. WIN. How to Become a Leader Who Matters, OPEN TO THINK, THE PURPOSE EFFECT and FLAT ARMY. A renowned speaker, Dan has presented at four different TED events and also writes for Forbes and Harvard Business Review. Dan is an adjunct professor at the University of Victoria, Gustavson School of Business and has garnered more than 20 industry awards over his career.

Dan is honoured to be on the Thinkers50 Radar list. HR Weekly listed him as one of its 100 Most Influential People in HR for 2021. And PeopleHum listed Dan on the Top 200 Thought Leaders to Follow in 2021.

His third book, OPEN TO THINK won the 2019 getAbstract International Book of the Year.

Previously as Chief Envisioner and Chief Learning Officer at TELUS—a Canadian telecommunications company with revenues of over $14 billion and 50,000 global employees— he launched the Transformation Office, the TELUS MBA, and the TELUS Leadership Philosophy, all award-winning initiatives that dramatically helped to increase the company’s employee engagement to record levels of nearly 90%. Prior to TELUS he held senior roles at SAP, Business Objects and BCIT.

Dan and his wife, Denise, have three children (aka goats) and live in Victoria, Canada.