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Speaking & Workshops

Practical, high-energy sessions on operational excellence, AI, strategy, analytics, and execution.

Dan helps audiences make sense of complex change without burying them in buzzwords. His sessions translate strategy, AI, Lean Six Sigma, analytics, and operational excellence into practical decisions leaders and teams can use.

Topics

Stop Automating Chaos

Why AI fails when workflows are broken, and how leaders can find the work AI should actually improve.

Audience takeaways

  • How to spot bad AI use cases
  • Where automation can save time
  • Why workflow clarity comes before tools
  • How to avoid making broken processes faster

Operational Excellence in the AI Era

How Lean Six Sigma, analytics, and AI can work together to improve service, reduce waste, and help teams make better decisions.

Audience takeaways

  • Why operational excellence still matters
  • How AI can support improvement work
  • What leaders should measure
  • How to keep people in the loop

The 90-Day Operations Reset

A practical approach to stabilizing backlog, service delays, missed follow-up, and operational firefighting.

Audience takeaways

  • How to find stuck work
  • How to stabilize the first 30 days
  • How to improve handoffs and ownership
  • How to sustain the gains

Strategy That Survives Contact With Reality

Strategy is not a slide deck. It is knowing what to say yes and no to, then building the rhythm to follow through.

Audience takeaways

  • How to translate strategy into choices
  • How to stop treating every problem as equally urgent
  • How to connect priorities to weekly execution
  • How to make strategy practical for teams

AI, Analytics, and the Future of Work

A plain-English executive session on AI use cases, risks, practical adoption, and how work changes when teams use better tools.

Audience takeaways

  • What AI is good at
  • What AI should not do
  • How to think about risk and trust
  • How to start with useful, practical use cases

Available formats

  • Keynotes
  • Executive briefings
  • Half-day workshops
  • Full-day workshops
  • Leadership offsites
  • Team training
  • Virtual sessions

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