David Deaton Email & Phone Number

Crozet, Virginia, Us

In June 2023, David Deaton’s Deaton Group Consulting and Operation Productivity announced the merger of their respective businesses to form MindSalt, a comprehensive business consulting firm based in Charlottesville, Va. Together, MindSalt boasts a dynamic, cross-functional team that employs a whole-business approach to help organizations become more purposeful, productive, and profitable.As co-leader and client partner of MindSalt, David is a highly knowledgeable and accomplished strategic operations and development executive with extensive domestic and international experience in strategic planning, facilitation, research, and business implementation. With strong multi-cultural and global experience, he is exceptional at learning and understanding diverse organizational environments and adapting dialogues to meet cultural differences and perspectives. David is also a highly engaging, motivating facilitator with exceptional communications skills who focuses on data-driven, strategic decision-making within for- and non-profit organizations.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

At Leadership Strategies, our mission is to serve as facilitators of positive, impactful results for our clients through our practical, dynamic, and interactive meeting facilitation and facilitation training services. Strong facilitation improves decision making, increases speed of action, and creates buy-in.

Crozet, Virginia, Us

Founder and current Executive Director for the community building non-profit organization providing outreach and infrastructure investments to undeserved youth in Charlottesville. Leading the organization's launch into the National Premiere Soccer League (NPSL), the oldest and largest semi-professional soccer league in the nation.

Charlottesville, Va, Us

Led 15 person team providing six areas of infrastructure support to our 150 global CFA Societies®. Includes $15M in funding, communication management, leadership training, data analysis and reporting, direct operational staff resource support, and technology services including website support and SalesForce integration.

Charlottesville, Va, Us

Provided group facilitation for departmental strategic planning or project launch or relaunch using either a defined set of strategy alignment modules or developing customized modules based on need. Assisted 15-20 different departments ranging from 5 to 100 participants from all over the world.

Charlottesville, Va, Us

Conducted strategic analysis blending secondary information, data, and direct dialogs with stakeholders to build organizational strategic plans for key countries/markets, projects, and the Asia Pacific region. Facilitated and provided annual regional office strategic planning, including high-level strategic themes, work-plans, detailed activity planning, and performance monitoring. Extensive facilitation of stakeholder focus groups and 1:1 in-depth interviews in various countries throughout the Asia Pacific region. Managed two individuals assisting in market research and data analysis.

Charlottesville, Va, Us

Provided qualitative and quantitative market research to support the organizations strategic questions and projects. Developed and executed primary market research (in-depth interviews, surveys, etc.) based on business owner requests. Analyzed internal and secondary data to develop market penetration estimates and demand forecasts for a suite of CFA Institute products and services.

Charlottesville, Va, Us

Provided qualitative and quantitative market research to support the organizations strategic questions and projects. Developed and executed primary market research (in-depth interviews, surveys, etc.) based on business owner requests. Analyzed internal and secondary data to develop market penetration estimates and demand forecasts for a suite of CFA Institute products and services.

Fort Worth, Texas, Us

Managed $250M commodities transportation portfolio conducting market analysis, determining logistics pricing, and leading financial analysis for key capital projects for strategic initiatives.

Ba, Management, Operations & Decision Science

Mba, Business