DR DANNY DAVIS BIO
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.
Innovation and Technology Master-Craftsman. Philosopher. Zen Master. Uber Nerd. Professional Discipline Polymath. Governance Expert. Organizational Futurist. Visionary.
Danny Davis has made it his life’s work to explain how organizations 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 authority 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 organizational decision-making and collective action – and our own personal behaviors – to become high-performance future-making organizations 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 organizations 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 organization’s collective future.
Helping people to gain a new perspective on how their organization 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 organization’s future better.
Danny’s material is based on breakthrough research. It provides new ways of disciplined thinking that can change our world… but is customised and presented in a way that is accessible, compelling and inspirational for YOUR audience – from your general staff to your leadership and professional discipline experts.
Danny makes complex concepts simple, and practical action achievable. See his content showreel here.
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 Corporate Governance for Sustained Value Creation in Large Scale Organizations.
He leads extended research into the correlation between the extent to which organizations utilize enhanced practice, and their long-term financial AND non-financial 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, how they can upgrade their value creation machinery, what a high performance future means for them, and practical actions they can take to make their future better.
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 specializing 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.
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FUTURE BETTER: Better Ways Of Work To Accelerate Human Potential
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 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.
