Corporate America is great at creating strategies. For at least four decades, prestigious US consulting firms have brought strategic insight to C-Suites everywhere. Many former consultants have even taken top jobs inside corporate strategy departments, ensuring that […]
Author: Dan Parisi
Dan began his career at BTS in 1995, and has since focused on creating highly customized executive development solutions for leading Fortune 100 clients in North America. Dan’s client work has focused on accelerating strategic alignment and building capability
to drive execution. He has worked with senior leaders at HP, Texas Instruments, Walmart, Intel and others on topics as diverse as:
Post-merger strategy alignment
Accelerating adoption of a customer centric-culture
Retail – CPG industry value chain understanding
and partnership
Dan has spent nearly 15 years leading large BTS USA
regions. He led the BTS West Coast region from 2002
to 2012, while from 2013-2014 he acted as the
Managing Director of the BTS East Coast region out of
the NYC office.
He is the author of numerous articles, such as
“Business Acumen for the 21 st Century,” and “Is Cash
Still King?”, and co-author of “Creating a Customer
Centric Culture: Walking a Mile in the Customer's
Shoes” at Texas Instruments and “Using Business
Simulations for Executive Development.” Training
Magazine named him one of the 10 Top Young
Trainers in the U.S in 2008. In 2007, Marshall
Goldsmith selected Dan to join the “Distinguished
Thought Leaders Library” for his pioneering work in
executive strategy simulations. Parisi is a featured
business speaker for the “50 Lessons” video library
series on learning and leadership. His presentation on
“How Learning Has Evolved” appears in Never Stop
Learning (Harvard Business Press, 2010).

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