I create Thinking Partnerships with leaders to improve performance

David is Co-CEO of fassforward Consulting Group. He partners with clients to improve their leadership, culture, productivity, and life/work balance. He leads fassforward's Executive Coaching practice, oversees finance and is focused on developing FCG’s biggest asset, its people and culture.

Prior to joining the fassforward, David spent 20 years on Wall Street. He worked at Morgan Stanley for 9 years in Institutional Equity Derivatives where he managed Hedge Fund Sales Trading. David was also a leader in the firm’s recruiting program, taught in the training program, and was a significant contributor in the growth of the firm’s derivative platform for hedge fund clients. In 2008, David joined New Mountain Capital to launch a risk management strategy and start a trading desk for the firm’s hedge fund with assets of approximately $1 billion. In 2010, he was promoted to Portfolio Manager, co-managing the hedge fund, which had grown to over $2 billion in assets. 
Through his work at fassforward, his yoga studio and his charity, David has enjoyed being focused on "doing good things for good people". David received his A.B., magna cum laude from Princeton University.

David Frost

More companies are hiring culture coaches and that's a meaningful shift.

What stood out to me in this article is how closely this increased emphasis on culture mirrors a big focus of fassforward's executive coaching:

• “Culture is the invisible machine that creates all future things”
Gavin McMahon in his new book Story Business (see first comment). Culture isn’t catchy lines on the wall. It’s a system. It need stewards, storytellers, and coaches. If no one is reinforcing the culture story, something else will.

• Outside perspective creates movement.
Progress accelerates when leaders have someone who isn’t embedded in internal dynamics offering challenge, clarity, and context.

• Leadership capability is the real lever.
Culture doesn’t change through values statements. It changes through how leaders show up under pressure.

• Trust determines depth.
People tend to go further when they believe the coach is fully in service of their growth, not balancing that with internal agendas.

• Internal ownership and external coaching works.
One of our clients has a Director of Culture we partner closely with, clear stewardship inside, supported by trusted outside coaches.

Interesting to see culture investments catching up to what coaching has long emphasized.

What are you noticing in how organizations are approaching culture differently?

#fassforward #Leadership #Storytelling #ExecutiveCoaching #OrganizationalHealth

Open article: Why more companies are hiring ‘Culture Coaches’ by fastcompany.com

Why more companies are hiring ‘Culture Coaches’

Delta Air Lines

Responsible for development, execution and delivery of Delta's Enterprise Risk Management program and methodology.    
Temporary assignment for oversight of Fuel Risk Management (hedging Crude, Jet, RBOB, HO) and Compliance for Delta and its wholly owned subsidiary Monroe Refinery throughout COVID (2020-2021)

Director, Enterprise Risk Management

Novelis

Aggregating enterprise wide operational risk, crafting it into a story that effectively leads to strategy and execution accomplished through influence and peer to peer collaboration.  Includes Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) risk management.

Director, Enterprise Risk Management & Corporate Strategy

P&L responsibility for $1 billion global customer sales contract negotiation and performance.

Director, Global Sales - Can Business Unit

Responsible for procuring over 1 million tons annually of P1020 aluminum (> $1 billion of sourcing spend) from global aluminum producers and intermediaries such as banks and trading houses.

Global Category Manager, Procurement - Aluminum

Assistant Controller - Cost Accounting

Commodity Risk Management and Procurement Analyst - Continuous Improvement Black Belt

Aquila

Financial Analyst - Natural Gas and Power

American Century Investments

Licensed & Registered Investor Relations Representative, Series 6 & Series 63

Third Party Account Administrator & Investor Relations Representative

I am a motivated self-starter with a demonstrated ability to work in unstructured environments and generate results.  I am passionate about simplifying complexity with a focus on process and governance systems.  I have experience building turnkey risk management programs and frameworks.  I've lead high value account relationships, operational teams domestically and internationally, and new product commercialization projects with P&L impact.  

I have a professional passion for collaborating with people.  Building effective teams is the best recipe for success where trust is the ultimate human currency. 

The achievement I’m most proud of didn’t start with a business plan or board room strategy.  Rather, it started with a white board.  In breaking traditional paradigms, we generated over 30% improvement in working capital (~$93M).  Another project enabled a team and I to spearhead an industry disruptive product launch into the marketplace.... and that was really fun! 

I’m inspired by boundless creativity, pushing farther than you believe is possible, untapped potential, passionate people and formulating win-win relationships.  I'm addicted to ultra-distance events and challenges!  I live by servant leadership, strong character, humble confidence, and commitment to integrity.  Let's go.

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