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For over 30 years, David has helped leaders drive productivity and get the results they want through authentic and courageous leadership and communication.
David is both a teacher and student of effective leadership and communication. He is one of America’s foremost authorities on communication and leadership inside organizations and a sought-after advisor to Fortune 500 leaders. By acting as an advocate for employees and as a thoughtpartner™ to senior management, David helps organizations unleash the power of communication to engage employees and drive performance.
David is the Founder and CEO of The Grossman Group, an award-winning Chicago-based communications consultancy focused on organizational consulting, strategic leadership development, and internal communications. Clients include Abbott Laboratories, Amsted Industries, Grubhub, Johnson & Johnson, Kimberly-Clark, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, and Stanley Black & Decker, among others.
David is often quoted in media, providing expert commentary and analysis on how leaders and companies can build trust and keep employees engaged through crisis and change, employee well-being and burnout, and more. He’s been featured on “NBC Nightly News,” in CBS MoneyWatch, the Chicago Tribune, Directors & Boards, Forbes, Great Place to Work, the LA Times, Newsweek, and the World Economic Forum.
David is an award-winning five-time author. His popular book "Heart First: Lasting Leader Lessons from a Year that Changed Everything" is now in its second edition, "Heart First: What Exceptional Leaders Do in Extraordinary Times." Heart First continues to be applauded by leaders at all levels for the practical approaches and rich stories of heart first leadership, told by senior leaders around the globe. In addition, David has published a version of Heart First for emerging leaders, which is praised by students, young professionals, and educators for inspiring the next generation to lead and make an impact. David’s leadercommunicator™ blog has been ranked the number one blog on communications by Feedspot nine years in a row.
David is a member of the Forbes Communication Council, the Arthur W. Page Society, the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), and the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC), and serves on the Board of Trustees for the Institute for Public Relations (IPR), The Plank Center for Leadership in Public Relations, the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication, the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Public Relations Department, and the Communication Leaders of Chicago. He recently taught The Authentic Leader course at Columbia University in New York City.
Twice named PR Week’s “Boutique Agency of the Year” and PRovoke Media’s “Employee Communication Agency of the Year,” The Grossman Group’s work has won all the “Oscars” of communication. The Grossman Group is a certified diversity supplier. Prior to founding The Grossman Group in 2000, David was director of communications for McDonald’s.
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