John of Prometheus Endeavor

John Daniels

Biography:

John Daniels has spent more than five decades helping organizations understand, manage, and lead through transformational technologies and organizational change. Highlights include:

• Early computing innovation. Working with an IBM Fellow in the early 1970s, John helped pioneer computer-assisted instruction and computer networking while building and managing a shared computing system serving 45 educational institutions.
• Apple. During the mid-1980s, while consulting to Apple, he facilitated the company's first IT planning process and led the team that developed Apple's first global strategic initiatives.
• IBM Global Services. John later conducted research on technology and globalization for IBM that helped validate the strategic direction that became IBM Global Services, IBM's most successful business initiative of the 1990s. He co-authored Global Vision: Building New Models for the Corporation of the Future (McGraw-Hill, 1993), which documented this work.
• IBM Leadership. In 1991, John joined IBM as General Manager of IBM Business Consulting for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, helping lead IBM's transformation from a hardware company into a global software and services enterprise.
• Nonprofit leadership. During the past two decades, John has advised and led several nonprofit science and environmental organizations, including serving as Board President (three years) and Acting Executive Director (one year) of the Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association, and as Board Chair (two years) of the Environmental Learning Center in Vero Beach, Florida.
• Prometheus Endeavor. John is an active member of Prometheus Endeavor, a think tank dedicated to helping executives achieve greater success with transformational endeavors.