Dan Duggan, who joined Family Business Advisers in 2007, is an inspirational leader, teacher, and coach with over 20-year’s experience as a successful business executive. He possesses the invaluable ability to quickly assess where an organization‘s creative energy flows and where it is blocked. Once these blocks have been identified, Dan’s insight and sincerity create a safe environment in which people discover their innate courage and they begin to accomplish what they never thought possible. Through deep caring, humor and strong coaching, he helps leaders to open to the joy in their work and invite forth the creative energy already existing in their organizations.
Dan led operations in the high-tech industry, as a Director and General Manager in manufacturing and distribution since 1978. His organizations consistently ranked at the top in customer and employee satisfaction, profitability, and growth. His own personal journey taught him that “achieving the numbers” is critical but not enough. He has successfully discovered how to win the numbers game with an experience of joy and peace of mind. Known industry-wide as an ethical, dynamic leader, his team-building skills resulted in the highest employee retention ratings in his field.
He is particularly interested in bringing his skills to bear in family businesses in the areas of owner motivation and perspective, leadership and management continuity, management synergy and teamwork, family dynamics, and successor preparation.