David has decades of experience in operating roles saw well as advising senior leaders globally on leadership and strategy. He is trusted by CEO’s and their teams, Boards of Directors, investors and star athletes to help them get to clarity and growth where and when they most need it.
David was named by Thinkers50 as one of the world’s top coaches, and he is a longstanding senior advisor to Egon Zehnder and the Institute of Coaching (affiliated with Harvard Medical School).
David’s typical engagement is with the Chair, the CEO or the CEO and senior leadership team together. He has a deep capability spike in working with first time CEO’s and he also coaches high potential CEO succession candidates.
He was previously a senior advisor to Oliver Wyman Group and a member of the Management Advisory Board at TowerBrook Capital Partners, the first B Corp private equity fund where he worked with portfolio company CEO’s, fund executives and served on portfolio company boards. He was also Managing Partner in strategy consulting at Oliver Wyman Group in New York, Shanghai and Hong Kong where he led Asia Pacific. Before that, David was global leader of Kearney’s Financial Services Practice, a Managing Director in Group Management and an Executive Vice President of the Individual Investor Group at Morgan Stanley, and a Senior Vice President at RBC where he had a number of roles, including CEO of the world’s first digital bank, executive roles in corporate and institutional banking and strategy, and Assistant Chief Economist.
David lives in Miami Beach, Hudson NY and London. He is active in the NPO world as an advisor and Board member in the arts and environmental advocacy. His book on “Real Time Leadership” with Carol Kauffman, was published by Harvard Business Review Press in February, 2023.