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.
Leadership is a skill, craft, art, and science. Most people were never taught any of it.
Even the good ones mostly pick it up by accident. Even fewer build the capacity to handle the human part of the job. Fortunately, the tools can be learned — how to give feedback that lands, how to make a call with no clean answer.
→ If you're the one carrying it, we start with the work, and follow it to what it's actually for.
→ If you run the company, or its people, I build that into the leaders you're counting on.
I'm Danny Kenny, a behavioral scientist. I coach executives, design leadership development inside organizations, and write Work Wise with Big Think.
What the work builds
Most leaders don't fail for lack of intelligence. They have the data, the analysis, the framework. The harder skill is the judgment to use it under pressure — the call with no clean answer, the conversation they keep postponing, the moment 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
Get back to your own scoreboard.
One-to-one executive coaching and a focused performance sprint for high-performers who want to run on purpose again.
For Individuals →The Future Self Kit
Start on your own — $97.
A 14-day, self-guided future-cast: a real answer to “is this it?”, built by consulting the ninety-year-old version of you.
Explore the Kit →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
Pfizer
Johnson & Johnson
AstraZeneca
Anheuser-Busch
United Launch Alliance
FEMA
WorldQuant
Yale University
Yale Football
Unite America
Florida Division of Emergency Management
Illinois Wesleyan University
Hi, I'm Danny Kenny — a behavioral scientist and executive coach. I design leadership development for complex organizations, coach senior leaders, and interview world-class thinkers for Big Think. I write Work Wise weekly.
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