About Us: Colleagues
David J. Dowling,
Founder and Managing Principal, Aligns, Inc.
As with everything, Key Leadership is a stickler for quality and relevance. In our practice, everyone with whom we work represents the very best in their field. David Dowling is a colleague who is by background a jazz musician. By practice, he is a consultant who is able to keep an eye on the big picture while making sure the right things get done in the here and now. We work well together because we are the same in critical areas: we are both disciplined and creative. We work well together for our clients because we both have the best interests of the client as a primary driver. Our joint work is characterized as the right mix of strategic and practical. On a personal basis, David is a gem – unlike anyone I’ve run across in my many years in HR and in consulting.
Dave is known for helping his clients to unlock and combine the collective knowledge and gut of their leadership teams to rapidly create a shared view on tough issues. He has held executive leadership roles in Health Care, Financial Services and Technology businesses where he led numerous business and organizational strategy initiatives. He has held senior roles in strategy, business development, and human resources.
Organizations that have benefited through collaboration with Dave over the past decade include Ascension Health, Fidelity, HCA, Pfizer, Anthem, SXC Health Solutions, Health Care Service Corporation(the parent company of Blue Cross Blue Shield of IL, TX and NM),and numerous early to mid-stage venture-backed healthcare and technology companies.
His varied experiences as a consultant and an executive leading strategy, large enterprise programs and human capital functions has equipped him with a unique ability to offer Boards and senior leaders incisive and practical advice that has served to accelerate the realization of solutions to complex business, talent team and organizational issues. As a result, Dave has the unique ability to see your issues/opportunities as both an advisor, as well as someone who has lived with the consequences of strategic decisions.
Dave has a reputation for providing outstanding business coaching and advice to executives. His passion for teaching, ability to connect with individuals at all levels, as well as his unique gift of quickly understanding people and processes, ensures that there is no issue that is too complicated for him to decipher. He contributes by closing the gaps between strategy and the reality of organizations.
Over the years, Dave had developed and maintained a broad and exceptionally deep network of diverse and highly experienced consultants and advisors whose expertise can be leveraged to meet your needs.
Dave lives in Dana Point, CA with his wife and their three rescue dogs. He is active in Big Brothers Big Sisters of Orange County.
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