About The Author
Dr. Dick Daniels is a leadership strategist with a passion to help unravel the complexities of developing engaged leaders at every level in any organization. He hosts The Leadership Development Group on Linkedin Groups with nearly 250,000 global leadership practitioners sharing best practice insights on leadership development.
- Daniels’ first book, Leadership Briefs: Shaping Organizational Culture to Stretch Leadership Capacity. Daniels first book bridges the gap between culture and the value and investment in developing leaders. This volume won both national and regional book awards: Reader Views – Reviewers Choice Award and Best in Business from The Midwest Independent Publishing Association.
- Dick also contributed a chapter on Leadership Musings in the annual Building Bridges series from the International Leadership Association, Leadership and Power in International Development: Navigating the Intersections of Gender, Culture, Context, and Sustainability. This volume was awarded the 2019 R. Wayne Pace Human Resource Development Book of the Year Award by the Academy for Human Resource Development.
- The second resource from the Leadership Development Group written by Dr. Daniels is Leadership Core: Character, Competence, Capacity. This volume guides any leader how to lead at higher levels of organizational complexity by developing your leadership character and leadership competency…simultaneously! Nationally awarded by Reader Views Reviewers Choice Award and Nautilus Book Awards in the business category.
- The third addition to the LDG Library is Hardwiring New Leadership Habits: Does Development Develop. Follow the fictional story of Global Organizational Resources and the executive team at their annual strategic offsite planning meeting. Awarded the Business Silver award by Readers’ Favorite Book Awards.
- The newest book in the leadership library is The 365 Day Leader: Recalibrate Your Calling Every Day. This daily reader offers a unique format of 365 original leadership quotes with a format for team discussion and team development. The 365 Day Leader was recognized by Reader Views with a Five Star Review Rating.
- In addition, Daniels published a trilogy of children’s picture books titled Oak Street Tree House, featuring his treasured grandchildren as the neighborhood characters. It also won national and regional awards for the Early Reader category (6-8 years): Illumination Book Awards and Reader Views – Reviewers Choice Award.
Daniels is the Founder and President of The Leadership Development Group since 2008. He is a Master Leadership Development Coach certified by Stakeholder Centered Coaching. Dick also serves as a leadership development coach with Chief Executive Coaching and is a facilitator at the membership meetings with Chief Executive Network. As a Board Member with Hodos Institute, Dick offers board guidance in their leadership development research and training throughout Ukraine. Hodos translated Leadership Briefs as a resource for their work in the Ukraine. Dick is also an annual Facilitator at the Florida Student Leadership Forum on Faith and Values held at the Kennedy Space Center.
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