David Dunnington Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

Senior Executive Coach helping individuals meet the challenges of working in high-growth companies challenged by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity.

Greater Seattle Area

Waldron is the consulting partner strategic leaders choose to help attract, engage, and inspire effective leaders. We provide a unique combination of executive search, leadership development and career transition services across sectors and industries. Our passion is helping people and organizations realize their full potential and increase their impact

Greater Seattle Area

• Work sample includes:
• Transitioned clients to new roles and careers in a wide variety of organizations as a career coach; resulting in managers achieving goals and promotions with 99% success rate within 90 days.
• Designed and delivered a 6-week online career development course for college students, with 100% percent job placement in students’ chosen fields
• Counseled a wide range of individuals on career transitions and led large-scale outplacement programs in finance, technology, aerospace, manufacturing, healthcare, retail, legal, and education enabling clients to chart.
• Collaborated with clients to manage all aspects of HR and talent acquisition
• Designed and delivered new customer contract services for the Microsoft Unified Support initiative, aligning goals of decision-makers and customer-facing individuals to improve support quality

Redmond

• Upgraded the Microsoft Certified Professional program with 750K active professionals (MCPs) worldwide by offering online benefits and technical training, resulting in 180K new MCPs—the first growth in 3 years
• Improved MCPs’ satisfaction with Microsoft training, raising scores by 3% percent worldwide after a 2-year decline
• Partnered with worldwide vendors to create testing centers in 65 countries and deliver certification training in 9 languages, doubling registrations and completions
• Launched a marketing campaign used to present to corporate customers the MCP unique value proposition to B2Bs

• Reached 60K clients yearly to train and inform them of new products, ensuring customer access and retention
• Managed a $1.5 million budget to develop strategies to create, test, and deliver worldwide hands-on labs, the most sought-after training by partners and account managers, ensuring product adoption at partner conferences

Seattle

• Developed new e-learning business for Acadio
• Met with executives and landed key accounts such as Boeing and PBS

Greater Seattle Area

• Implemented the Boeing Education Network, Boeing’s first internal distance learning network, still in use today
• Developed and presented training to audiences of hundreds on career development, leadership, and communication

• Certified to deliver Career Transition workshops to DBM's customers
• Delivered three and four-day pieces of training, consulted one-on-one with individuals and executives on managing change and developing new career paths.
• Expert in motivational mapping, and facilitating personal change to new careers for greater fulfillment, personal satisfaction and well being.
• Consulted with companies such as Weyerhauser, Goldengrain, CH2MHill, Exxon.

Master'S Degree, Speech Communication And Organizational Development

Masters degree in Speech Communication. Researched the qualities of master instructors who had received the University's Distinguished.

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