Meeting/Event Information

Registration: 8:00 AM

Announcements: 8:15 AM

Presentation: 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Dan Kaplan is driven by the belief that anything is possible if we can just learn to talk to each other. As a mountain-climbing expedition leader, Dan has guided many teams through difficult conversations and high-altitude danger. Combined with his nearly 30 years of communications leadership experience across the public, non-profit, and private sectors, Dan helps leaders and team communicate to their audiences and each other. Through his company, Confident Communicators, LLC, Dan’s training workshops, presentations, and keynote speeches help leaders, managers, and teams overcome communication dysfunction – challenges such as silos, information hoarding, internal politics, power plays, giving and receiving feedback, sloppy management, virtual communication, issue avoidance, fear of speaking up, and ineffective presentations. His corporate communications consulting helps organizations craft and cascade messages, influence audiences, and inspire.  

Dan is an Everything DiSC® Authorized Partner, 5 Behaviors of A Cohesive TeamTM Authorized Partner, and Certified 6 Types of Working GeniusTM Expert. Through leadership, management, and team communications workshops, the firm helps organizations build trust, master conflict, achieve commitment, embrace accountability, and focus on results. Sample clients include the Gates Foundation, Google, The State of Maryland Department of Social Services, The US Food & Drug Administration, The State of Montana Department of Health, The Loggerhead Marine Life Center, the American Astronomical Society, The Montgomery County Police Department, and the San Francisco Aids Foundation.

Dan is a graduate of the University of Maine (MA, English) and the University of Maryland (BA, English & Business). Dan lives in Baltimore with his wife and three children, has visited 40 countries, and in his spare time raises money for breast cancer research by climbing mountains.

To learn more or book Dan for speaking engagements, visit www.ConfidentCommunicator.com, email [email protected], or call 443-845-7724.

This meeting will account for 1.5 CE credits.