For Organizations
Develop how your leaders lead.
Facilitation, workshops, advisory, and speaking that develop how your leaders actually decide, relate, and act under pressure.
For Organizations →See clearly. Act wisely.
Hi, I'm Danny Kenny.
I help high-performing leaders and teams do their best work when it gets complex, fast, and human — the part of the job no framework covers for you. I'm a behavioral scientist. I coach executives, design and run facilitation and workshops inside organizations, and write Work Wise — a weekly newsletter published with Big Think.
What the work builds
Most leaders don't fail for lack of intelligence. They have the data, the frameworks, the dashboards. They falter in the specific human moments the training never quite reached — the call with no clean answer, the conversation they keep postponing, the pressure that makes them someone they don't want to be.
Clearer decisions.
Especially the calls with no obvious right answer, where more analysis stops helping.
Steadier leadership.
Composure that holds when the pressure doesn't let up — and doesn't run on fear.
Honest conversations.
The ones people tend to avoid, said in a way that builds trust instead of spending it.
Performance that holds.
Results that don't quietly cost you your best people — or yourself.
Three ways to work together
Pick the door that fits where you are.
For Individuals
Make the work feel like yours again.
One-to-one executive coaching and a focused performance sprint for high-performers who want their work to feel like theirs again.
For Individuals →Work Wise
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Read Work Wise →Why listen to me
A PhD in Behavioral Science from the University of Technology Sydney. A decade designing leadership programs and coaching executives. Conversations with some of the sharpest minds in decision science, performance, and meaning — for Big Think.
Clients served
PfizerJohnson & JohnsonAstraZenecaAnheuser-BuschUnited Launch AllianceFEMAWorldQuantYale UniversityFlorida Emergency ManagementIllinois Wesleyan UniversityPfizerJohnson & JohnsonAstraZenecaAnheuser-BuschUnited Launch AllianceFEMAWorldQuantYale UniversityFlorida Emergency ManagementIllinois Wesleyan University
Danny Kenny is a behavioral scientist and executive coach. He designs leadership development for complex organizations, coaches senior leaders, and interviews world-class thinkers for Big Think. He writes Work Wise weekly.
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