A Life of Goodwill

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.