has over 15 years experience consulting and coaching with leaders of industry. In 1997 Sapp founded Dan Sapp & Associates and in short order gained a reputation for his ability to help executives brand their leadership through their impact as communicators. DSA has helped countless early stage companies raise capital through both the private and public markets. Sapp’s corporate clients have included senior executives and leadership teams at Hellman & Friedman LLC, 3i, Cap Gemini/Ernst & Young, Gensler and others.
		Following completion of his graduate studies, Dan started his management-consulting career with a boutique organizational development firm based in London. As a part of the team that helped merge the cultures of United Distillers with The Guinness Group PLC, Sapp gained valuable insights into the impact of leadership communication on brand value, culture, and organizational effectiveness. Returning to the US market, Sapp worked with an elite national training firm focusing on developing communication effectiveness for managers and executives with clients such as Coke, UPS, Anderson Consulting, Cox Cable, Microsoft, and other nationally branded firms. With an undergraduate degree in Psychology from UNC at Chapel Hill and his experience as a prep and collegiate athlete, Sapp became a pioneering fitness and conditioning coach. His clients included not only corporate executives but also age group athletes and an Olympic gold medallist. In 1987, while working toward his Masters in clinical psychology with a specialization in sport psychology, Sapp was featured in ‘USA Today’ as a force in what was then the new and rapidly growing phenomenon of personal fitness training.