About Dan Gaynor

As the former president and publisher at both the Calgary Herald and the St. Catharines Standard, Dan brings a rare body of first-hand executive leadership experience to his work. Dan has successfully led several significant change efforts, including integrations, team turn-arounds and the resolution of several difficult labour situations. Dan has mentored several of today's leading executives, within and outside the newspaper business.

Since leaving his own leadership career in 1993 to form Gaynor Consulting, Dan has built a reputation as a leading teacher, executive coach, speaker and consultant, working with a wide variety of clients and industries. Not at all a fan of faddish leadership thinking, Dan teaches the same timeless and powerful practices he developed and used for years in building the teams he personally developed.

Over 20 years, Dan Gaynor built a track record as a leader who can transform teams and lead positive change:

• As president and publisher at the Calgary Herald, Dan led a staff of 700 employees, resolving a difficult labour dispute and leading the newspaper to record-setting earnings.
• As president and publisher at the St. Catharines Standard Dan led Southam Newspaper's most successful integration, doubling earnings and creating a motivated high performance team.
• As Director of Sales for Southam, Dan led the rebuilding and transformation of the advertising departments at 11 newspapers across Canada.
• As VP Advertising and Distribution at the Kingston Whig-Standard, Dan led his team successfully through the integration into Southam and reversed a years-long decline in marketshare.
• As retail advertising manager at the Edmonton Journal, Dan led the transformation of the department of 50 employees into a best-in-class team.

Clients benefit from the expertise that can only come from someone with a proven track record in senior executive leadership.

View client testimonials here.

"We have the privilege of working with Dan as he is helping our Board of Directors gain a better insight into making organizational changes to the Calgary Real Estate Board. Our directors found his breadth of experience and knowledge to be very helpful. He has a direct, common sense approach that is easily understood and that gives our group a higher level of understanding as to what we need to do in moving our organization to a higher level of governance. Dan's practical approach in dealing with our issues has helped us assimilate the changes we need to incorporate. He is a very credible management consultant whose passion for his work gives his message more clarity and impact. Dan continues to work with the Calgary Real Estate Board directors and senior management team as we continue pursuing our goal of best practices in good governance."
– Ron Esch, CEO, Calgary Real Estate Board