Dave A. Jennings, PhD, is an expert on leadership and leading change. He is President of Business Acumen, Inc., a leadership development and consulting firm specializing in change resilience, leadership, and communications. Clients describe Dave as practical, expert, and authentic.

Dave understands the emotional psychology inside leadership. In the trenches with executives implementing global strategic change initiatives in complex organizations, he fully grasps the risks, stresses, and opportunities at hand. He has coached, trained, prodded, and cajoled thousands of leaders and high-potentials from blue-chip companies such as Deloitte, ExxonMobile, and Hewlett-Packard. At Intel, his prodding led to $12M savings in a single conversation.

He has worked with such leading organizations as Microsoft, Deloitte & Touche, DuPont, Hewlett-Packard, Honda, Intel, Life Technologies, Mobil, Oracle, and Panasonic. Dave is the co-designer of the "leading change" process used globally by Microsoft Corporation.

Dave has been on the faculty of two universities and has published a wide variety of articles. He is the acclaimed author of Catapulted Leadership: Mastering the Art of Employee Engagement to Get Great Results.