David Zahn

David Zahn is a successful entrepreneur having launched four businesses since 2000 (including www.startupbuilder.com). His business acumen and piercing insights into what it takes to successfully launch a business, nurture a business through the tenuous startup phase, grow the business, and then manage it successfully have allowed him to develop the wisdom that he shares within this site. As someone who has "been there" himself, and recognizes you have no time for "nice to know" information and only want to know information that is "need to know;" David is focused on providing you information and skills that are directly related to your business needs and able to be acted upon immediately to improve your success and your business results.

David possesses a unique background uncommon to most business owners and business consultants - he is an Instructional Designer by experience and academic preparation. This provides him with a deeper understanding of how to take complex information and present it in a way that is accessible and relevant to you. As well as being an expert in training design, development, and methodologies for content delivery, he is also a much in demand management consultant with current clients including names such as; Cadbury Schweppes, J.M. Smucker Company, ConAgra, Shell, and others. However, it is his ability to bridge the gap between working with the largest and most progressive companies to the entrepreneur toiling away alone intent on creating the next "big thing" that differentiates what David can do for you from other business consultants. Taking the approach of coach and mentor, David will provide you with the fundamentals, build on those skills to refine your approach to your business, and aid you in living out your dream.

You can rely upon the fact that David's advice is practical and based as much on the fact that he is a business owner himself who has to sell, provide customer service, manage finances, and do all the other tasks that you are confronting yourself. Because he had to learn much of it through his own experiences, he appreciates the value of practical advice built on experience and recognizes the benefit of having experts share their perspectives gleaned from a lifetime of observation, learning, and evaluation. With StartUpBuilder.Com, David has compiled leading experts from various disciplines, fields, and backgrounds to join him in helping guide you through the process of starting up your business and launching it successfully.

As a frequent contributor to industry publications (columnist for Training & Development magazine in 2001 and author of multiple articles for that publication as well as contributing to many web-based magazines, business radio interview shows, two-time book author; "The Quintessential Guide To Using Consultants" and "How To Succeed As An Independent Consultant, 4th Ed."), and provider of quotes on industry issues to publications as diverse as Entrepreneur Magazine, BusinessWeekOnline, Connecticut Post Online, Grocery Headquarters, BrandWeek, etc., David is able to provide thought leadership and perspective on issues that appeals to both the pragmatic business minded, as well as the theoretical or academic members of the small business or entrepreneurial venture community, training and other industries. He is also an adjunct faculty member of the University of New Haven (West Haven, CT).

A graduate of the State University of New York at Buffalo (BA - Social Psychology) and Stevens Institute of Technology (Dual Track MS - Instructional Design and Organizational Development), David is equally comfortable addressing the needs of the executives meeting in the boardroom or assisting the small business owner launching their own dream enterprise off of their kitchen table or in their garage. When not engaged on client assignments, David is often found at youth soccer fields, school plays, eating buffalo chicken wings and otherwise spending time with his two sons - Brian and Michael.

David can be reached at 1-866-638-8873 (1-866-6FUTURE) or you can email him at: davidzahn@startupbuilder.com).