For business owners, investors and governments · Gulf · Monaco · UK
When a big programme, project or deal stalls, I get everyone back round one table and moving.
I help business owners, investors and governments across the Gulf, Monaco and the UK get big things moving again.
As a former leader of a UK city, I've sat on the government side of the table.
I know what it takes to get governments, investors and their partners pulling the same way, and I love doing it.
Stuck right now? Let's get it unlocked within 48 hours.
Former Leader of Southampton City Council, a city of a quarter of a million people · Board advisor · Speaker
Your programme isn't delivering
A trade and investment partnership, international work between governments, a free zone, a city-to-city link or a major government project where the partners aren't pulling together, and it isn't delivering what it promised.
Your project has stalled
A port, an infrastructure link, an industry hub or a regeneration site with lots of parties round the table, and it's ground to a halt.
Your deal is stuck
An investor entering a new country, a joint venture with a government body or a land deal that's stuck mid-flight, or needs government on side to land.
Think A&E, not the GP.
Triage
I get in fast, find out what's really going on and who decides, and tell you straight what it will take.
Treatment
I'm in it with you, bringing every party to one plan and getting it moving again.
Aftercare
If it's worth it, I stay on as your Chair or adviser, or with a share in the result.
Without energy, everything drifts into chaos. With alignment, it becomes an endless growth engine.
Alignment is the key to your success. When your purpose, your people and your plan point in the same direction, wealth, success and opportunity follow.
My mission: to help business owners, investors and governments get big programmes, projects and deals moving, by getting everyone round one table and aligned.
See how I work with you →The Three Levels of Alignment
All talks and training →Aligning Yourself
Bring your values, goals and daily actions into line, and watch your results change.
Aligning Your People
Get teams and partners pulling in the same direction, with trust, clarity and shared purpose.
Aligning Your World
Bring your board, shareholders, partners and customers in line with your vision, and turn those relationships into opportunity.
I've lost everything three times. Alignment brought me back every time.
In May 2008, at 22, my first business went under. That same month, I was elected to the council. Three months later, as Lehman Brothers collapsed, I started buying property.
At 31, I was bankrupt, sleeping on my mum's floor for nine months. Eleven months later, still technically bankrupt, my team chose me to lead them. Nobody believed we could win the city. In May 2021, we did.
At the end of 2024 it all fell away again. Through 2025 I had no home of my own, no car and no income. In February 2026 I let go and put it in God's hands, and the rebuild began. Every setback has brought me to a greater level of alignment. That's what I bring.
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“I’ve known Dan for a number of years now, through the highs and the hard times. What stands out is his ability to bring people together around a shared goal and his energy to make things happen. He inspires from the front, and people follow.”