DANNY DAVIS' PROFILE
Innovation and Technology Master-Craftsman. Philosopher. Zen Master. Uber Nerd. Professional Discipline Polymath. Governance Expert. Organisational Futurist. Visionary.
Danny Davis has made it his life’s work to explain how organisations think, and how they can become more effective, mature, self-actualised future-making value-creation entities. He shows how organisations can be better at achieving their own potential.
Danny is the world’s leading thinker on the upgraded organisation of human labour necessary to succeed in an era of high global volatility and the increasing speed of technological advancements. He explains new ways of understanding how we can improve our organisational decision-making and collective action – and our own personal behaviours – to become high-performance future-making organisations operating in the knowledge, digital, services and wellbeing economies of the future.
Danny is not your typical business management expert or translator of the latest technology releases. He talks about the future of organisations themselves – as effective living-systems structures through which people to work together in highly-effective aligned collective action.
Every person in every business has something to contribute to their organisation’s collective future.
Helping people to gain a new perspective on how their organisation functions, and how their own participation can add value, empowers people to contribute more of their potential at work, and get greater personal fulfilment in the process of making their organisation’s future better.
Danny is highly experienced and deeply informed. He makes the complex simple – and entertaining. He explains how organisations think, and the challenges they face to survive.
Business futurist, keynote speaker, board advisor, executive mentor and transformational change expert, Dr Danny Davis has developed breakthrough insights over 40 years advising thousands of executives across start-ups, governments and large global companies.
He holds a PhD in enhanced Governance of Sustained Value Creation in Large Scale Organisations.
He leads extended research into the correlation between the extent to which organisations utlize enhanced practice, and their long-term value creation out-performance. In this he has had the opportunity to interview thousands of leaders of corporate, investor, regulator and government entities, including board directors across the 10 largest companies in the country, 7 of them at chair. The leading large-scale practitioner identified in his research has performed 800% ahead of the index sustained over a 10 year period.
Dr Davis brings unique insight to explain how organizations think, how they can mature to become more effective, and how leaders can work better to upgrade their company’s value creation machinery.
Danny is recognised global expert in Governance of Value Creation, future oriented accounting, and enhanced decision-making. He is a professional discipline polymath, and a technology, innovation and organizational governance master-craftsman.
Danny has been described as “the real deal” for his hands-on capacity to see through complexity to identify practical steps to overcome wicked-problem challenges. He is an experienced mentor of corporate executives and advisor to corporate and government boards. He is a successful technology entrepreneur in his own right – twice awarded ‘fast-50’ status for his role as founding CEO of a $30m IT advisory firm specialising in strategy, infrastructure and cybersecurity.
An experienced director of corporate and government entities, Danny has served as national representative on ISO standards development for corporate governance, IT governance, AI governance, and innovation management – and as visiting fellow at the University of Technology Sydney’s Institute of Public Policy and Governance amongst a variety of University innovation appointments.
Danny champions national and global scale transformation through initiatives involving large scale companies, pension funds, regulators and governments collaboratively developing enhanced practice – and coaching their elite practitioners on their use.
Danny has performed improvised theatre, presented comedy programs on community radio, and was Festival Co-Director of the 2012 South Melbourne Street Fair along with 25,000 of his closest personal friends.
Danny is a truly original independent thinker, a generator of visionary insight, a pragmatic corporate entrepreneur, and an enthusiastic and motivational communicator. He is passionate about lifting our collective capacity to make our future better.
Most frequent comments about Danny’s Presentations: Insightful. Informative. Motivational. Inspirational. Transformational.
Dr Davis’ new book is OUT NOW on Amazon. It gives us “Powerful insight that lifts our ability to work effectively to make a better tomorrow… together”
FUTURE BETTER: Better Ways Of Work To Accelerate Human Potential
FUTURE BETTER explores how we can make better use of finite resources, unlimited creative thinking, and the immense power of the enhanced organization of human labor to create better organizations and better human futures.
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