Daniel Stewart, Author at The HR Gazette and HRchat Podcast

Author: Daniel Stewart

Daniel J. Stewart is a sought-after leadership and talent consultant and coach with proven experience advising senior leaders, leading change, and designing leadership-rich organizations. He leads Stewart Leadership’s extensive consulting practice, business development, and international partnerships. Over the past fifteen years, he has been an internal and external organizational development executive and consultant delivering talent and team development solutions, executive leadership coaching, group facilitation, change management, organizational design, and strategic planning for companies that include JetBlue Airways, Avaya Telecommunications, Lockheed Martin, The Weihs Group (Venture Capital), Kohl’s Department Stores, Aurora Health Care, and Briggs & Stratton. Daniel’s collaborative and engaging style along with his ability to turn the complex into understandable and repeatable steps has brought his clients great success. His clients value his practical approach and look to him as a voice of experience and reason for building leadership talent in a fast-changing market place. He is the co-author of the award-winning book, LEAD NOW! A Personal Leadership Coaching Guide for Results-Driven Leaders, which was awarded First Place by the National Indie Excellence Book Award for best leadership book published over the last 5 years. He has also published articles in Executive Excellence, Practicing OD, Proposal Management, and HR.com. He graduated from Brigham Young University with a BA in International Relations and a minor in Business. He received his Master’s degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder in Organizational Communication, where he taught public speaking, team development, and leadership courses. Daniel’s unique background and experience combined with his collaborative and results focused approach makes him ideal to consult and coach those who are focused on sustained talent and leadership development. Daniel is originally from California and Oregon and lives near Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Building an Effective Team: Seven Steps to Move Out of Chaos

I recently began coaching an up-and-coming manager we will call Nathan. The organization sees great potential in this manager, and they have put him in charge of a department that has been underperforming despite having talented people in place. During our first meeting, Nathan went over his goals with me, and they were ambitious. Too […]