A Life of Goodwill
Three Leaders & Their Impact on an Organization
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About the Book
About the Author
Dan Miller devotes his life to helping people and organizations use history as a tool. His love of history has been lifelong. Dan earned a bachelor’s of arts degree from Anderson University, majoring in history. He earned a master’s and doctoral degrees in history from Indiana University. For 10 years he worked in a workforce development consulting fi rm outside Indianapolis, first as a frontline consultant and subsequently as a managing partner and CEO. Since 2004 Dan has operated his own company, Historical Solutions LLC. It has given him a platform to pursue a totally new kind of history and consulting. His clients include CEOs, executives, board members, directors, managers, and supervisors. Dan’s specialty is using history to grow the leadership capabilities of people and organizations. Dan has an extensive list of publications. His first full-length book was published in spring 2008, entitled “A Tragic Turn: Six Leaders and the Death of Martin Luther King, Jr.” He has also written the updated sections of the history of Methodist Hospital (Indianapolis) and has written entries for the Dictionary of Literary Biography, the Encyclopedia of Americans at War, and the Encyclopedia of the American Revolution. Dan and his wife Kelly, a clinical psychologist at the University of Indianapolis, live in Indianapolis with their daughters Haley and Ava. Goodwill Industries of Central Indiana, Inc. is one of the largest of approximately 160 independent, locally governed Goodwill Industries organizations in North America. While they share a name and a heritage and are linked by their membership in Goodwill Industries International, Inc., local Goodwills have evolved in different ways and vary enormously from one city to another. Goodwill Industries of Central Indiana, Inc. operates in 29 counties that encompass approximately one-third of the state of Indiana. Within that geographic area, Goodwill operates more than 45 retail stores; provides assembly, packaging, inspection, and related services; cleans over 2.5 million square feet of office space and provides mail room, shelf stocking, and grounds keeping services for the federal government; helps unemployed people prepare for and find jobs; and operates a public charter high school. For more information, go to www.goodwillindy.org.