Dan is the founder of the NZ Boutique consultancy Association, New Zealand’s only network dedicated to helping founders and leaders of independent, New Zealand-owned consultancies grow their businesses. Before going into business helping other firms, Dan held roles as EGM of New Zealand and EGM People Experience and Strategy at Planit Software Testing, one of the top-three pure play quality assurance companies in the world. His specialism is scaling professional services firms’ business activities and operations effectively whilst focusing on people experience and career management.Career Highlights includeOverseeing Planit’s growth from initially 60 people in Auckland to over 500 at the time of exit• Successfully delivering year on year against budget revenue and net profit.• Navigating the New Zealand Business through two sales and one acquisition• Leading the operational integration of the two largest QA companies in New Zealand in 2022• Leading three organisational re-structures in 2018, 2021 and 2022• Creating the vision, and leading the team which designed and rolled out the workforce management systems for over 1500 employees worldwide• And ….founding the NZ Boutique Consultancy Association, which has quickly grown to include members from dozens of small – medium consultancies.Dan published "The Consultant's Playbook" in February 2023 an is currently working on its sequel "The Consultant Leader's Playbook" due to publish in 2025