David Peck

David is an experienced C-level executive and coach who collaborates with senior leaders of large organizations to enhance leadership and upgrade results.

As an executive coach, David focuses on identifying and expediting the highest value development areas for successful executives who are:

* involved in a new or different role, or being prepared for greater responsibilities,

* looking to upgrade their level of engagement and/or reinvent their professional brand, or

* committed to enhancing their influence or positive impact on their organization's bottom line.

David has extensive business experience in P&L leadership, technology, professional services, and as a coach. He’s lived on both coasts of the U.S., and works on engagements around the country, and abroad, including in Australia, the EU, Singapore, and Canada. While he started his career literally in the mail room of a bank, David committed to his own training and development that led over many years to a wide range of senior management positions. His particular strength was as a startup executive within larger organizations, culminating in his role as founder and head of Charles Schwab’s Mutual Fund Clearing business, which he built from zero to $23 billion in assets in just three years. Prior to his business career, David was a professional Modern Dancer with companies in New York, Washington, DC, and Boston.

David combines years of experience as an executive and a coach with a style that has been described as candid, pragmatic, humorous at times, and definitely results-oriented. While supporting and guiding clients in all areas of their current challenges, he holds them accountable to their high priority development areas and vision. Clients say David’s experience as an executive and his engaging style enrich their work together, and its outcomes. His current and recent clients are in various industries, including aerospace, financial services, professional services, retail, defense, health care (i.e., services, biotechnology, medical device technology), energy, manufacturing, travel/leisure, and staffing.

An avid writer, he's been published and quoted widely. His first book, Beyond Effective: Practices in Self-aware Leadership was published in 2008. David and his family live in Southern California.