Let's get your business moving
Breathe new flexibility into your organization without the need for a complete system change. Let's create a new energy by combining the potential of community principles by connecting people on a bottom up, peer to peer basis for learning, innovating, support and more. I will help your people, management and company culture grow with proven approaches that support change adoption, team productivity, learning, customer success and other key areas.
Start to leverage communities
Thanks to 15 years of my community experience on the Czech and international scene, I can help kick off your community initiatives or bring them to a new level. Let's evaluate together the potential benefits of the community for your project, get even a global community moving, capture the energy of internal networks and set up a way to manage and administer these projects.
WORKSHOPS
Two hours to several days of interactive joint work, online or in person. We will upskill a group of up to 15 people to tackle new initiatives and gain new attitudes and skills.
TALKS / KEYNOTES
Webinar or live talks or keynotes for larger groups. I deliver them as experience-packed lectures that will give your people energy - and some chunky food for thought.
MENTORING
Individual meetings in which we work together to address your specific needs, or in which I guide you in sorting out your thoughts about the development of your team or organization.
SOLUTIONS
I will help design a solution or system and its implementation. I can also be involved in the process of onboarding or selecting people who will continue to work with the solution.
I base my work with you on practice and I always prepare tailor made solutions to match your needs. Clients appreciate my human and "no b*shit" approach and my ability to think out of the box. I also always aim to walk as direct a journey as possible to reach your goals and make myself eventually redundant.
Let's talk about options, availability and prices.
Applied community principles in corporate culture
How to get energy into highly organized companies and thus support bottom-up decision-making, the ability to react quickly and inter-team cooperation.
Please contact me for course content.
Applied community-based approaches to management
How to strengthen autonomy and decision-making from below, while increasing responsibility and a sense of ownership, and what role do properly set goals (such as OKRs) and evaluation play in this?
Please contact me for course content.
Community
leadership
How to take advantage of loosely organized communities of people around your organization
or inside? How to start, manage and evolve them?
Types of communities, their strengths and weaknesses
Assessing the potential of internal or external
communities for your intentIdentity design, structure and governance / funding of communities
Launch of communities, its phases
Managing communities, working with people in the community, working with community leaders
Management of the community program in the company, necessary roles, metrics
Digital transformation and bottom-up adoption
How to use community principles for digital transformation and adoption and connect energy from above and below.
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In the following general areas we can work together in mentoring, I can design a workshop for your team or I may consult how you to navigate them to move your company's system or culture forward.
DANIEL FRANC, MSA
I am a practitioner with years of international experience, enriched with various theoretical concepts in my toolbox. During 13 years as a Google global program manager and then in consulting other companies, I learned how even a large organization can operate using the principles of self-management and agility, or how a small company can grow without losing its creative DNA. I am at home in community work: I have been creating, leading or advising communities since 2005. Among else, I founded and helped grow the world's largest IT meetup network (Google Developer Groups) and ran other global community developer programs at Google for 7 years. Recently, in 2023-2024, I designed community programs to support products in Gen Digital as a Community Lead.
In the past, I have co-created and led several technology companies in the USA and the Czech Republic, such as one of the first e-learning platforms (WebStudy) or ride-sharing tools (Rideseek.net). I worked with teachers, educated in experiential learning and published books and translations and I led community programs in context of social and non profit organizations.
The basis for all this was provided by a master's degree in HR Management in the USA (West Chester University) and a bachelor's degree in sociology from Charles University.
Jiří Langr
(HEUREKA.CZ)
"From the consultations on the topic of OKR implementation and debugging, I took away a lot of tips and topics to think about.
And above all, it gave me new thoughts and ideas!"
Jana Konečná
(KBC)
“The Collaboration lecture was very positively received. Colleagues emphasized the lecturer's many years of experience and the insights they got into cooperation in other organizations. "
Ondrej Zaoral
(INOXIVE)
"That thing that separates good and great trainers: practical experience. Dan lives and works the way he teaches. His trainings are incredibly catchy case studies of his work style. It was a pleasure both taking part in his communication training and working with him on the Prague Wikinomics Forum."
Denisa Petrusková
(GENERALI ČESKÁ POJIŠŤOVNA)
"Dan has allowed us to see a contstant change through the lens of opportunity, not just survival. The seminar participants highly valued its high energy, authenticity, insights and inspiring approach to team management and work with error."
Fady al Kheir
(ENERGON HOLDING)
"Working with Daniel was a great experience. He has deep insights in social behavior, motivation and a solid tech backround. He applies all that in a way that infects people with passion. His high level of integrity, talent to inspire and "only the best possible" ethics make him a real gamechanger."
I am honored to have worked with more than 20 organizations recently, either directly or in partnership with
ELAI or Business Provocation agencies.
As a mentor, I help startups in two acceleration programs.
