Daniel Harkavy:

CEO, Founder, and Best-Selling Author

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For over 35 years, Daniel Harkavy, CEO, Building Champions has been coaching business leaders, teams, entrepreneurs and organizations to peak levels of performance, efficacy, and fulfillment. Best-selling author and coach to global industry leaders, Daniel’s purpose-driven approach has helped thousands of leaders live and work with greater purpose and impact.

The 7 Perspectives of Effective Leaders

Your leadership effectiveness will be determined by just two things: the decisions you make and the influence you have.

In Daniel’s latest book, he leverages his 35 years of experience and conversations with more than 20 leading business executives, to reveal a powerful framework to transform your leadership and drive immediate, outsized results in your organization’s culture and performance.

The 7 Perspectives of Effective Leaders helps leaders and organizations across all disciplines:

  • Connect the leadership dots

  • Increase confidence

  • Simplify roles

  • Provide clarity for more effective leadership

  • Focus on the most important areas of the business

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Praise for Daniel Harkavy &
The 7 Perspectives of Effective Leaders

A must-read for leaders.

The 7 Perspectives of Effective Leaders is a must-read if you are committed to growing as a leader. Daniel’s deep experience as a life and leadership coach is woven throughout this incredibly helpful guide for leaders and leadership teams. This book is insightful, challenging and actionable.

Tim Tassopoulos

President and COO,
Chick-fil-A, Inc.

Be a more effective leader.

Whether you are leading an organization of 350,000 or a team of ten, this framework will help you to be a more effective leader. Read the book and bring curiosity and discipline to each of the 7 Perspectives Daniel has outlined. You will be armed with what you need in order to make the best decisions and have maximum influence.

Frank Blake

Former Chairman and CEO,
The Home Depot

A context for leadership in these challenging times.

This book is full of truth and is a remarkable, simple, and accurate approach to leading an organization. Read it twice with your executive team. It will accelerate your team’s leadership effectiveness, and what’s more important than that?

Patrick Lencioni

Founder and CEO, The Table Group bestselling author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team and The Advantage

Smart and Deeply Insightful.

These 7 Perspectives are grounded in Daniel’s decades of experience coaching successful executives—and extremely helpful as I develop my own vision for the next five years of our organization. The framework encourages leaders to challenge existing assumptions, understand their team, open themselves to fresh thinking and ultimately make better decisions.

Caryl M. Stern

Executive Director,
Walton Family Foundation

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SetPath.

Daniel founded SetPath, a community benefit nonprofit that helps young adults discover their true potential through life planning and mentoring. He also actively serves his community as a member of nonprofit boards and a mentor to those seeking his guidance.

SetPath’s mission is to guide young adults to discover purpose, hope, and direction through Life Planning and mentorship.

More Thought Leadership
from Daniel Harkavy

The Building Champions Podcast

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In addition to our behaviors, we all have beliefs and ways of thinking that impact our ability to lead, whether we realize it or not. In the Building Champions Podcast, Daniel Harkavy explores both the beliefs and the behaviors of great leadership by drawing insights from unexpected places.

Living Forward

Living Forward

A Proven Plan to Stop Drifting and Get the Life You Want

Each of us has but one life to live on this earth. What we do with it is our choice. This step-by-step guide offers simple yet proven principles to help you stop drifting, design a Life Plan with the end in mind, and chart a path that will take you there.

Becoming a
Coaching Leader

Becoming a Coaching Leader

The Proven Strategy for Building Your Own Team of Champions

This strategic and thought-provoking guide breaks down the core four foundations to every coaching strategy, the most powerful leadership tools you can and should leverage, and the key behaviors and disciplines of successful coaching leaders.

Video Content

Bring Hope and Optimism — The Value of a Focus Plan

Leading in Difficult Times Video Series - Ep. 9 - Listen

Live with Purpose

Featured Clients

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Invite Daniel to your panel, conference, or show to discuss:

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  • The evolving landscape of work and leadership

  • Leveraging the 7 Perspectives to navigate today’s business challenges

  • The necessity of self-leadership in building effective leaders

  • The value of building a coaching culture within organizations

  • And more…