Coach | Mentor | Strategist | Futurist | Design Thinker | Podcaster
Dan Feldman focuses on systemic shifts, tipping points, and new normals in individuals, societies, and ecosystems.
Coaching
Developmental Mentoring
Through a strong relationship based on mutual interests, Dan guides professionals and entrepreneurs, as a Developmental Mentor, to build capability in a specific field of expertise, realize their personal goals, discover their own wisdom, feel more satisfaction in their relationships, and change their perspective by bringing them to another level of understanding.
Agile Business Strategy
Functioning as an Agile Business Strategist, Dan helps executives and entrepreneurs to evaluate their businesses more objectively, understand the need for real change, develop iterative comprehensive solutions, and ensure that the execution stays on track. He crafts periodic plans because conditions in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world rarely remain constant.
Future Questing
As a Futurist, Dan helps executives and entrepreneurs to create their vision and align it with emerging trends. He describes a clear vision of the future that inspires them to action. He helps them to understand the big, contextual drivers of change which create the fertile soil for emerging trends. In this way, they can master the opportunities before others even realize that certain challenges exist.
Design Thinking
Operating as a Design Thinker, Dan helps executives and entrepreneurs to redefine their problems and solve them in new ways. The best solution is not always obvious. Our cultural conditioning can limit our imagination. Together with his clients he investigates what they are really trying to solve, and examines their opportunities from angles previously unknown to them.
Writing and Podcasting
After a pause, Dan launched a radically new direction for the “Agile and Beyond” podcast. The podcast now examines systemic shifts, new “normals”, and tipping points in natural ecosystems and the political economy. His focus grew from the micro to the macro, from organizations to ecosystems. Past episodes examined the future of work and the economy. The reboot explores this precarious new “normal” in which we find ourselves and imagines potential solutions.
The New Normal series launched with an episode on climate change escalation. Future shows focus on the threats, both existential and non-existential, to the planet and society. Emphasis moves to larger, crucial issues with a new format – short audio essays, no longer than 20 minutes. Occasionally he posts interviews with people proposing solutions to the biggest problems.
You can listen to the podcast on most platforms – iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, YouTube and soon Spotify.
Systems, Teams, and Strategies
His experience has been wide-ranging and international, from developing embedded real-time software to advising entrepreneurs. In China he coached both execs and engineers on multicultural team building and then re-integrated a China plant into U.S. sourcing strategy. For a Japanese factory automation company in Shanghai, he developed and executed a digital marketing strategy.
Purpose, Mindset, and Authority
Dan has worked throughout his career to align himself, and the teams which he has served, to a deeper, more compelling purpose. As a natural global, conceptual thinker, he cultivates creative and collaborative learning organizations, and teams and collaborates across boundaries.
Curiosities and Passions
From technical project management and product ownership to speaking and lecturing in the academy, Dan Feldman has amassed a diverse array of experiences . With Mandarin and German speakers he is still able to hold his own. You can learn more about his professional experience here.
Movement and Flow
In Qingdao, Dan studied Praying Mantis, Taijiquan and Baguazhang. Similarly in the U.S. he practiced a few different styles including Aikido. He now studies Chen-style Taijiquan.
Signals and Systems
Dan received his BE and MS from Vanderbilt University in 1991 and 1993, respectively, where he studied in the Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering departments. His interests span political economy, systems theory, neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, and world literature.
Beginner’s Mind
Some remarks from his podcast guests: