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Guest Speaker and Instructor
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Dan Clemens shows leaders and teams how to make Fun their competitive advantage! Blending wisdom
from his experience in business leadership and from building competitive youth sports teams, Dan has
championed the advantages of having fun to thousands of leaders and employees in aerospace and defense,
financial services, healthcare, high-tech, manufacturing, software, and telecommunications.
As a business and communications consultant, trainer, and speaker he's coached leaders, managers, and
frontline employees in Cultural change, Division-wide reorganization/new senior leader integration, Strategic
Communications and Process Improvement.
In his 17-year corporate and consulting career, Dan has walked the floors where they build the world's most
advanced fighter aircraft (F/A-22, F-16 and F-35), sat with developers who write the software code for the
FAA's Air Traffic Control system, seen fiber optic cable and satellite dishes being made, interviewed the
president of a company that manufactures disk drives, stood next to a veterinarian providing treatment to
wild bald eagles, facilitated process improvement teams at injection molding and manufacturing facilities,
managed a 100-person call center during a labor strike, worked with a team that produced 5 million
hypodermic needles in one day, and walked inside the external fuel tank of the space shuttle.
Prior to founding his consulting firm, Quiet Path Communications, he spent eight years in sales, publishing,
and public relations with Western Union, First Data, and HCA-Health One. His last corporate assignment
was the lead on communications for the US West-Qwest merger.
Dan is a Board Member of the Colorado chapter of the National Speaker's Association.
Dan is the author of A Perfect Season: A Coach's Journey to Learning, Competing, and
Having Fun in Youth Baseball. He asserts that three things should drive youth sports:
Kids should Learn, be Competitive, and have Fun.
He says the same is true of the workplace, and those managers and employees who embrace Fun, Learn,
Compete also enjoy the most productivity, better quality, higher engagement and better retention of talent.
A former Division I scholarship athlete, Dan has coached youth baseball, soccer, basketball and football and
is a high school baseball coach. Dan earned a Master of Humanities degree from the University of Colorado
at Denver, and his undergraduate work was in Speech Communication at Colorado State University. He's an
avid baseball fan, has climbed 50 of the 54 mountain peaks in Colorado above 14,000 feet, and has
completed four marathons. Dan lives in Castle Rock, Colorado with his wife and two children. |
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