Monitor Talent Team

Daniel R. Stern danny_stern@monitor.com

Daniel R. Stern, Senior Advisor, works with Monitor Talent to identify and recruit established and emerging thought leaders who are shaping the direction of business theory, innovation practices and management leadership in the 21st century. Through his deep understanding of the lecture industry and the trends and topics that resonate with today's most influential audiences, he is adept at creating innovative speaking opportunities for Monitor's clients as well as advising them on other aspects of their work and careers.

In his career at the Leigh Bureau and as its president for 10 years, Stern signed, managed and represented over 180 of the great authorities and speakers on business, technology, politics and social issues of our era. His skills and intelligence for helping original thinkers develop their messages and increase their impact on audiences are capabilities now available for Monitor Talent clients.

Background and Education

• Created and achieved a business strategy for the Leigh Bureau to pursue exclusive representation of the leading thought leaders in the United States and throughout the world
• Signed and/or managed more than 180 internationally renowned business experts, including strategy "gurus" Peter Drucker, Gary Hamel, Michael Porter and Robert Kaplan; information technology leaders such as Nicholas Negroponte, John Seely Brown and Don Tapscott; leadership's foremost experts such as Warren Bennis, Jim Collins and Charles Handy; and influential business journalists (editors from Fortune, Forbes, The Economist and Wired)
• For the last five years works with his wife and colleagues at Stern + Associates, a public relations company based in Cranford, New Jersey
• University of California, Los Angeles, 1972-1976