Dan Holestine is a growth-focused and transformational executive delivering entrepreneurial and visionary leadership that defines business, operational, and market strategies building organizational and operational structures to drive superior performance. He develops integrated action plans ensuring organizational vision and purpose, while leveraging positive and sustainable culture change. Dan is skilled in utilizing data and analytics along with strong business acumen to lead strategy, product, program, consumer experience development, driving the creative articulation of the brand vision. He excels at establishing and cementing relationships with clients, C-suite partners, and Board of Directors as a valued and trusted advisor who delivers practical and impactful solutions that surpass goals and expectations. He builds, mentors, and leads high-performing teams through creating a collaborative culture that values individual skills, inspires confidence, and empowers members to deliver exceptional outcomes. He operates at the intersection of operations, marketing, full-stack sales knowledge and experience, technology, and analytics. Dan is known for unflinching ethics and values and remarkable turnaround leadership. He is described as a charismatic leader driving scale and growth from start-up to mid-large size companies.
Dan escalated his executive career through a variety of experiences. To name a few, Dan was the National Marketing Director at DeVry University and also the Database Marketing Manager and Primary Research at Victoria’s Secret Direct. Next as VP of Marketing at American Career College and West Coast University, he developed new brands for both schools from scratch, creating campaigns and expanding revenues more than 2x for 6 campuses in 3 years. Dan then transitioned to the Leapfrog Group as Vice President of the Incubator Group and led the agency’s effort to expand revenues into education and the auto industry verticals, working with contacts at Ford Direct, DeVry, Kia, Auto Nation, and CEC.
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