David Crighton works with executives and senior leaders to help them leverage their strengths and achieve their career goals in ways that support the strategy, objectives and overall success of their organizations. 

David brings an ideal mix of business experience and expertise to his coaching.  He draws on an extensive and practical business background dealing with the complex challenges of building and running successful operations and expertise in leadership and executive development to help senior leaders successfully develop amidst continuous change.

David’s professional career includes over twenty years in Vice President, Senior Director and Director roles with corporate-wide accountability for executive, leadership and organizational development strategy and operations.  His industry experience includes global Fortune 500, national and regional companies: technology, financial services (banking, credit card, insurance), travel, advertising, retail apparel, membership associations and non-profits.  David’s experience includes working with well-known companies and organizations such as Bank of America, Yahoo, McAfee UCSF Medical Center, American Automobile Association (AAA) and Lam Research.

As an executive, David coached and worked extensively with senior executives and their teams. He was known for successfully developing and implementing new strategies and building strong organizations dedicated to improving leader and organizational performance.  Notable achievements include:

      • Receiving President’s Quality Award for coaching work with special cross-functional team in an         advertising company contributing to the company's improvement from "worst to first” in industry
        quality measures.
      • Implementing a culture change/ leadership development initiative in an advertising company that
        contributed to significant improvement in revenue and employee engagement measures.
      • Leading organizational development and learning initiatives supporting the turnaround strategy of
        a financial services company contributed to a significant increase in stock value positively
        positioning the company for acquisition.
      • Developing new Talent Review and Succession processes in three companies, improving
        leadership bench strength in line with external benchmarks.
      • Designing and implementing an Executive Leadership Program for the top 120 executives in a
        major global financial services company. Received company Exceptional Achievement Award for
        this work.

David holds a Master of Science degree in Industrial-Organizational Psychology and a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology. He has completed executive programs at Stanford University and University of Virginia as well as a variety of professional, leadership and coaching development programs throughout his career. David is also certified in the use of variety of leadership and coaching assessment instruments including MBTI, Strong Profile, Firo B, CPI and Thomas Kilman Conflict and Korn Ferry assessment tools.