Dave Cornelius Email & Phone Number

Tucson, Arizona, Us

Dr. Dave A. Cornelius, aka “Dr. Dave,” is an executive and organization coach and learning facilitator. He partners with leaders and teams in for-profit, start-up, and non-profit organizations to deliver awesomeness that meets their goals.He is the author of eight books that include 1) Beyond the Windowsill, 2) Generative Leadership To Thrive, 3) The Innovation Catalyst, Leading with Empathy, 4) Deliver Value: happy contributing people, satisfied customers, and thriving business, 5) Belonging and Healing: Creating Awareness for Yourself and Others, 6) Elastic Minds: What are you thinking?, 7) Prayers to my Abba Father God, 8) Transforming Your Leadership Character: The Lean Thinking and Agility Way).

Tucson, Arizona, Us

Knolshare is dedicated to helping people achieve awesomeness through mindfulness, value delivery, lean thinking, agility, and innovation, enabling startup businesses to achieve concept-to-cash solutions while accelerating time-to-market strategies. Leveraging Agile practices (SAFe, Scrum, Kanban), and DevOps, Knolshare inspires teams to deliver Blockchain and Crypto-currency solutions using Azure and AWS Cloud platforms.Here, I oversee the design and execution of tools and partnerships to achieve business transformation. I also provide coaching support to the software and IT Ops team and research, design, and evaluate curriculum and training content through the implementation of course presentations, audio scripts, and voice-over technologies. As an Agile leader, I have worked with Fortune 50 to 500 companies for industry-recognized brands like GM Financials, PetSmart, Accenture, and Improving. Here I provide executive coaching to their leadership teams to drive transparency and streamline efficiencies. Executive Impact 💼➯ Built a fully scaled program housing 14+ customized courses to support business and technology professionals to achieve certification. ➯ Led the development of a simulator depicting real-life scenarios, helping participants to improve their certification pass rate.➯ Launched an online course using Camtasia, WordPress, and e-commerce integration.➯ Led the strategy for an enterprise transformation initiative, improving speed to market by 50% and productivity by 35%.➯ Spearheaded the design and implementation of a highly integrated, automated training solution, incorporating gaming and extended reality—delivering a cost-savings of 30% vs. in-person training.➯ Delivered training content with an emphasis on SAFe, Scrum, and Kanban Agile practices, improving quality by 50% and employee engagement by 30%.➯ Led the design and execution of a data modernization platform Agile release train (ART) to attain $15M in benefits over five years.

Hercules, Ca, Us

Bio-Rad Laboratories delivers useful products that help life science researchers accelerate the discovery process, and medical diagnostic labs obtain faster, better results.As Value Delivery Leader for Bio-Rad Laboratories, I played a critical role in partnering with the product management team to define revenue models for various products and sales strategies. Here, I built and nurtured a progressive learning culture to invite members to take ownership of their personal learning goals. While working in this capacity, I oversaw the training and development of a 26-person team of system and data architects and software and quality engineers. I also coached teams to apply lean thinking and Agile practices using Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe methodologies. Together, we were successful in creating a platform for future application development. As an Agile Transformation Coach, I led strategy development for the SAFe 5.0 adoption to transformation journey, and created high-touch training aids using Kotter’s 8-Step change management model.Here, I supported executive teams through the development of Agile training content (CXOs, VPs, Directors, and Managers), which enabled the successful facilitation of three Big Room planning events.Executive Impact 💼➯ Achieved alignment through the development of LACE and Community of Practices.➯ Saved $800K+ per month during COVID-19 by helping teams transition to a digital/remote environment.➯ Positioned >90% of training participants to meet their individual learning goals.➯ Team Lead of a mass Microsoft Azure Cloud Transformation project, achieving 11x performance improvement.➯ Coached software teams to produce over $4.0M direct and $60M indirect revenue.➯ Brought a community of innovators together through numerous hackathons, coding, and testing dojos.➯ Slashed deployment times by 900% through the design and implementation of DevOps practices.➯ Successfully passed ISO 9001:2015 and 13485 audits with zero issues.

QuantumRE specializes in helping homeowners unlock the equity of their homes with no added debt through investment opportunities and solutions. As an Agile Coach for QuantumRE, I leveraged my years of lean startup experience to deliver an MVP. Here, I led user experience studies and sessions to increase user engagement and provided training on human-centered design principles.Adept in documentation, I oversaw the prioritization of backlogs in VSTS and coordinated integration meetings with cross-functional stakeholders. Lastly, I conducted weekly reviews, demos, and strategy sessions to gain buy-in at the executive level.Executive Impact 💼➯ Supported distributed software teams in delivering an intuitive real estate platform using Blockchain and Azure technologies.➯ Strengthened user experience through empathy, user journey, and story mapping.

Rueil Malmaison, Paris, Fr

Schneider Electric/Wonderware is a multinational company that specializes in digital automation and energy management.As Release Trainer, I taught best practices and guidelines that helped streamline common practices for 150+ scrum teams across the globe. Here, I oversaw Release Train events for local and globally distributed teams, including alignment for 20 Scrum teams. While working in this capacity, I led Kaizen innovation sessions for the Microsoft Azure Cloud product integration team. I also managed vendor relationships and led monthly inspect and adapt meetings with A3 Thinking KPIs that enabled business leaders to make time-sensitive decisions.Executive Impact 💼➯ Released multiple commercially available products that contributed to 51% of $700M in revenue. ➯ Accountable for an $18M program from concept to market.➯ Designed and delivered a Feature Definition of Ready and Advanced Retrospective methods training.

Teaneck, New Jersey, Us

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New York, New York, Us

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Doctorate Management, Organizational Leadership (Emphasis Information Systems Technology)

Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Bs, Computer Science