Dan Silver is a business executive who is known for developing successful cohesive organizations that grow with sustained profit and personnel. His coaching practice is based on the tenets of his learning and experience over 35 years:
- Having worked for a Fortune 100 international company at
- Director/VP/Division President level
- In various sectors–automotive, medical, housing, retail electronics
- With direct responsibility for PL management, Sales, Marketing, and Business Development
The focus of his coaching are the interwoven practices of work/life balance, individual career development, broad leadership skills development, and organizational leading with purpose and cohesion on a small or large scale.
In his work Dan combines a strong sense of individual management skill with values based coaching. Together these help clients attain actionable steps towards success. Success is based on a combination of exercises, client understanding of their motivations and challenges, and the experience Dan is able to bring through working and leading in large organizations on a global scale, as well as mentoring individuals in other types of environments through his coaching practice.
I. International Client Services
When working across borders and cultures, the key to team harmony and success is recognizing what issues are due to cultural aspects vs. business aspects. “Culture” should not be a crutch to rest on when things are not going well. The ability to truly see and understand what is going on, then act on it in a way that works in a multicultural environment, is what this coaching will help clients learn and focus on.
- Target: Expats working in USA or Americans working abroad–Cultural Awareness and managing cultural differences
- Key Delivery Points: Communication and authority and responsibility—how to maximize all
II. Executive/Management Coaching Services-
Traditional coaching services focus on issues of performance, improvement, and pathways to excellence. The client works to align around what they truly desire out of work, home life, and takes a holistic approach to examining then maximizing both. Special focus is given to particular aspects that the client identifies as wanting to move forward towards concrete change. Unique attention is given to the challenges of leadership and management, and striking the right posture and balance to succeed at various levels in any organization.
*Yelp *Panasonic *Morgan Stanley *TDBank
*Rutgers *Braven *Georgetown Univ. *PE Schmidt Co
Client: Vice President TD Bank
Need: Career Planning. Client felt “stuck” in the narrowness of his role. Sought position that could lead to CFO of a Tech Company or other type of institution.
Result: Worked to identify strengths other than just finance including leadership, communication, and learning capacity. Also weaknesses that needed addressing in terms of experience and confidence. Helped client review perspective opportunities, and client made lateral move to Vonage as an assistant controller. 6 months later was promoted to a larger role with international responsibility as well.
Client: Junior Partner in PE Schmidt company, a large electronics rep firm in the NYC area.
Need: Mid-Career focus and shift to transition into Senior level position in company while also balancing with family and other secondary business interests.
Result: Worked with client to plan a pathway to not only take over when his boss retired but to buy out the company to become principal owner. All the while addressing the issues with both family and other pursuits that had him spread too thin and unable to focus. Within a year he had transitioned to the President of the company with a 5 year ownership pay-off plan. He also shed himself of another business opportunity that was causing dilution of his energy and focus.
Client: Japanese Expat working for HR Panasonic USA
Need: Client wanted to make his stay in the U.S. as meaningful as possible while enhancing his career. Not sure that his career path was what he really wanted.
Result: Started back a few steps to identify what was important and meaningful to the client personally before looking at him professionally. After working on values, likes, dislikes, then looked at his job from this new framework. Through this, clients decided to get more aggressive in creating opportunities for higher level input/work whenever possible. Client rose in the company after a successful stay in the U.S., and eventually left the company to take on more of a talent development consulting role. Lots of back and forth during this consultation which saw him really emerge as his own captain.