Dan Wiseman

Dan is a managing partner with Wiseman Consulting and Training Sharon is a managing partner in Wiseman Consulting and Training (WCT).  Located in the Northwest Suburbs of Chicago, WCT focuses on providing transformational consulting in the non-profit sector with special emphasis in libraries and nonprofit organizations.

Dan’s professional career has spans more than 30 years of providing consulting, training, and research in the areas of organization development, change management, leadership development, and strategic planning for both profit and non-profit organizations.  He worked with more the 30 libraries and non profit organizations on planning, leadership and change projects.  He played a major role in the design and development of the LEAD-IN process (a leadership program for Indiana Librarians).  Dan also has played major roles in large scale change projects with library systems in Illinois.  He is a guest lecturer on leadership development at the Dominican University Graduate School of Library Science. 

Dan played in major role in the design and delivery of the first ever Library Vision Conference (1997) in Illinois which brought together 200 library trustees, library directors, systems directors, and state library leaders to create new ways for libraries to be effective.  Dan also designed an innovative project for six small libraries in Northwest Illinois to work collaboratively on their community based strategic plans. Dan’s specialty is designing and facilitating whole systems change projects in organizations.  Some of his projects involved large-scale redesigns of international airport systems, corporate real time strategic planning, designing statewide library systems visioning conferences, and creating total quality management processes for a major national human resource management association.

Prior to WCT, Dan was a senior organization effectiveness consultant at United Airlines. He was responsible for designing and implementing large-scale team based organization design processes and supporting E-HR initiatives, career planning, leadership development processes, and departmental change management initiatives.

Dan has also been a senior faculty member/consultant with the Indiana Labor & Management Council. He was a program manager and consultant for the American Productivity and Quality Center in Houston, TX.  (The Center was the originator of the Malcolm Baldrige Award.)  At the APQC, he was a key contributor to an innovative white-collar organizational change process and a lead designer and instructor for a highly regarded series of seminars on organization change and high performing work teams.  Dan’scorporate clients have included Ameritech, DuPont, Shell Oil, Hewitt Packard, Ford Motor Company, Hill Air Force Base, the city of Indianapolis and Coca-Cola Foods.  Dan was also member of two specialized boutique consulting firms in Indianapolis and Houston.

Earlier in Dan’s career, he held senior organization development positions with Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Indiana, Gulf States Utilities (TX), and the John Gray Institute (Lamar University, Beaumont, TX).  He also designed innovative education service for disadvantaged inner city youth in Indianapolis.  Dan created some of the first EAP programs in Indiana while working at Ft. Benjamin Harrison and later with a grant from the National Council on Alcoholism. Dan has authored several publications in the areas of organizational change and team development.  He helped found several chapters of ASTD and was nominated for a national torch award in 1995 for his work in creating a national strategic awards program and a local chapter quality process.

Dan holds a bachelors degree in Business Economics from Purdue University, a master’s degree from Indiana University in Educational Psychology, and is a (ABD) Ph.D. candidate in Adult Education at Indiana University.

Dan’s work is characterized by unique combination of creativity, resourcefulness, pragmatism, and playfulness. In his spare time, he participates in personal development programs, travels widely, and plays the trombone and euphonium in a brass band.     

Contact Dan at dwiseman@wisemanconsulting.com