Daniel Dworkin is a Partner with Schaffer Consulting with over a decade
of cross-industry experience driving individual, team, and
organizational performance.
Since joining Schaffer in 2011,
Daniel has led results-oriented change initiatives with a major
pharmaceutical business to accelerate strategy execution, a global
insurance provider to restructure and take out cost, and an urban school
district to improve student academic performance. Other recent
engagements include guiding a large healthcare system through the
successful roll-out of an electronic health record system (EHR), helping
an international food services business to leverage the innovation
capabilities of an acquired supplier, and supporting the executive team
of a Fortune 50 aerospace organization to improve vision alignment and
team effectiveness. Daniel is a principal member of Schaffer's Post-Merger Integration Practice.
He has advised clients from the construction, food services, and
financial services industries to assess deal readiness, develop
integration strategies, and create and implement plans to achieve
desired outcomes.
Prior to joining Schaffer, Daniel was a Senior
Consultant and head of business development with Ketchum Change
(formerly Stromberg Consulting) where he led change management projects
focused on systems implementation, organizational redesign, and culture
development with industry leaders like Dow Jones, GlaxoSmithKline,
Kodak, McCormick, and Pfizer. He also spearheaded the 2010 Ketchum/FedEx
Social Media Benchmarking Study that examined social media’s impact on
top global brands including AT&T, GE, IBM, Kraft, and Pepsi. Daniel
began his career in the classroom as a New York City Teaching Fellow and
bilingual educator in the New York City public school system.
Daniel has helped leading healthcare, technology, retail, and food and
beverage companies to successfully navigate change, drive innovation,
and engage employees. He is also a skilled trainer and facilitator,
equally effective collaborating with clients from the C-suite to the
front line.
Daniel holds an MA in Industrial/Organizational
Psychology from New York University, an MS in Bilingual Elementary
Education from City College of New York, and a BA in Political Science
from the University of Michigan.