About the Author
David Emerald Womeldorff is an engaging consultant, master facilitator, executive coach, speaker and author. What sets David apart is his authentic style of presenting his inspirational and practical material aimed toward stepping groups away from problem-oriented approaches. He is co-founder of the Bainbridge Leadership Center (Bainbridge Island, WA). As director of the Center's Organizational Leadership and Self Leadership practice areas, David’s passion lays in supporting individuals, teams, and organizations in making conscious shifts toward leading and working from an outcome-focused orientation. His principals and frameworks are based on his nearly 30 years of study, observation and application of his lessons of collaboration with a wide range of individuals and organizations.
As a speaker and workshop leader David will uplift, enlighten and inspire your group to reach new levels of collaboration through empowering relationships. David is conversational, entertaining and approachable as he shares his simple, yet profound, philosophies. At the end of the day, participants walk away feeling empowered, and eager to take action.
Writing under the pen name of David Emerald, he is the author of The Power of TED* (*The Empowerment Dynamic), a teaching story about Self Leadership, as well as the book’s supplemental workbook, A Personal Guide to Applying The Power of TED*. David’s books are sold worldwide. The Power of TED* is also available as an ebook.
David's TED*™ framework has been selected to be a part of the University of Notre Dame's "Management and Leadership Certificate" e-learning program. He is a frequent guest presenter on The Empowerment Dynamic™, as well as his "TED* @ Work: Seven Agreements of Making Shift Happen."
Previously, David was Consulting Director of Bank One Corporation's Learning and Leadership Development, a corporate team of education and organization development professionals; Acting Director of Executive Education and Senior Development Consultant, managing and co-facilitating their highly-acclaimed Leadership Development Program. He also managed and served on the faculty team of their Leading Strategic Change Executive Development Program, conducted through the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia. David also served Bank One as an internal and external organization development consultant.
David currently serves as an Executive Coach and is on the faculty of the Executive Integral Leadership Program, an innovative program for Executive MBA students and business executives offered by the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business (Executive Education). David is also a Senior Consultant for The Leadership Circle.
David holds a Master's Degree in Applied Behavioral Science from Wright State University (Dayton, OH), where he also was the first student to design his own undergraduate degree, entitled "Community and Communication." He now makes his home on an island in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
