Navigate uncertainty and expand your world.
I help people make meaningful connections with others.
Join cohorts of talented people to learn new techniques for energizing weak-tie relationships and translating your skills for our new world.
I design experiences that encourage meaningful contact among people with different perspectives, disciplines, and lived experiences. These insights and energy bring out the best in us, professionally and personally.
What’s between your network and your community?
Too many networking events are framed as transactional experiences designed to help you make a new connection that will help you only in professional settings. At the other extreme, building your community deeply-relational effort that takes a significant commitment of time and energy. Your weak-tie relationships live between these two poles.
Fifty years of research has demonstrated that the outer rings of our networks provide us with valuable ideas and lead to new personal and professional opportunities. Even more important, feeling connected to people from further out in our network leads to greater happiness and belonging. Our former colleagues, classmates, and people we just have met on our journeys are the source for professional opportunities and a personal sense of meaning.
Dan Gilbert helps people understand their “weak tie” connections and gain the skills to make those relationships meaningful.
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As employers spend more and more money on Generative AI tools to get work done, we are more and more responsible for looking out for ourselves. The people in our lives are willing to help us as individuals and help build stronger communtiies.
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As the pace of change in our lives speeds up, each of us needs to adapt faster and faster.
The relationships from further out on our network can help us adapt and we can help them.
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Dan has a background of human-centered design and more than 25 years experience as a highly-skilled facilitator.
Dan leads online and in-person activities that spark meaningful connections for you with new people and help you energize existing relationships.
2. How do you connect your skills and experiences from yesterday with today’s world?
Your education and experiences have created significant value in the past. It is becoming increasingly clear to many of us that the skills we cultivated yesterday are declining in value today.
I work individually and with small groups to help professionals understand what you're actually good at and how to translate those strengths to a world that is speeding up every day. You'll leave with clarity on what translates and what needs to change to add value in our emerging world.
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Through no fault of our own, the professional skills we have honed over years are declining in value.
Many of us have built careers solving problems, providing insights, and communicating with precision. All of these skills (and many others) are becoming commoditized. Fewer and fewer employers are looking to hire for skillsets that are increasingly automated. -
As the distinctions that separate people and machines get less clear, each of us needs to tell our own stories in terms of the value we can create in the present and the future.
Making explicit connections between our previously specialized skills and our increasingly dynamic world helps employers and clients understand how we add value.
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Throughout Dan’s career he has helped skilled professionals “translate” their work to unlock higher levels of collaboration, communication, and curiosity.
Dan leads online and in-person activities that will help you generate reflections and explicit language to help you tell a compelling story to employers and clients.
