About Daniel Simon
For over 30 years, Dan has been coaching, mentoring and speaking to individuals, businesses and large audiences to help them create great success; financially, physically, and emotionally. Dan has dedicated his entire adult life to growth, change, and inspiration. His positive attitude of true authenticity gained from his own personal journey is constant and at the heart of any situation and puts people in an empowering position to achieve their goals and desires toward lasting fulfillment.
Dan served in educational leadership roles for over 25 years. After starting his career as a mathematics teacher, coach, and advisor, he rapidly ascended to school and district leadership roles, including 20 years as a High School Principal/Director and Superintendent. Under Dan’s tenure as Principal of High Technology High School, the school rose to the #1 rank of US high schools (according to US News & World Report). Dan has continued to share his expertise as an adjunct professor as well as a coach, consultant, speaker, and trainer. His ability to forge mentoring relationships have led to successful academic and professional advancement and attainment of personal goals. Many former students are currently serving in leadership roles and maintain contact with Dan for continued encouragement and inspiration, which is a testament to the priority he places on personal relationships.
Dan works with people from all walks of life, he understands and recognizes diversity and many perspectives. Known as a servant leader, Dan’s leadership and coaching style is grounded in Biblical principles that lay the foundation of his work. Dan uses the skill of professional coaching to enable clients to effect change, create new awareness, and move into action. The Biblical perspective remains the lens through which Dan views his client, but the integration of that perspective is sensitively adapted to the individuality of his client for lasting transformation, change, and growth. Therefore, the expression of faith can at times be as important as the skill of coaching itself.
Dan’s outstanding communication skills and ability to create strong interpersonal relationships has been his greatest quality as a leader. He lives out his life every day with actions consistent with his own personal standard of positive, authentic leadership. Dan leads with authority while living in humility. He inspires, motivates, teaches, and ignites everyone around him into their own unique greatness. He walks every step of the way alongside his clients from many sectors and experience levels.
His greatest love is Linda, his wife of over 30 years. Dan is blessed to be the father to their six children Shannon, DJ, Jake, Kyle, Alexandra, and Zachary, and to be called grandpa by Jayden, Asher, Emma, Alba, Maverick, and Campbell.
Speaking Topics
Specialized Topics
2) Building connections through authentic, vulnerable relationships
3) Leading from a ‘grace, with accountability’ mindset