Weiss International

DR. DAVID S. WEISS, Ph.D., ICD.D 
President & CEO

Dr. David Weiss is President & CEO of Weiss International Ltd. David and his team of organizational consultants lead innovative consulting and training projects that generate effective strategy, leadership, and HR solutions for Boards, executives and senior leaders throughout North America and Europe. David also is a highly sought after keynote speaker at conferences throughout the world.

Some of his most recent projects include:

• Facilitating senior executive strategic planning and team building
• Identifying organizational designs to enable strategic alignment to occur
• Coaching executives and facilitating their individual and group development
• Designing the Leadership As A Business Driver learning curriculum
• Designing web-based culture surveys and 360° multi-rater feedback processes
• Facilitating internal service departments and HR to become strategically aligned

In addition to his organizational consulting assignments, David is a Director on the Board of The Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation (PMHF), a member of the PMHF Governance Committee, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Canadian Society for Learning and Development. He also is an Institute Certified Director (ICD.D) with the Institute of Corporate Directors.

David is also very committed to, and involved with, executive continuing education through major universities. He is an “Affiliate Professor” of the Rotman School Of Management, a “Senior Research Fellow” of Queen's University, and a Faculty Member of the Technion Institute of Management. He also is a guest faculty member for the Schulich School of Business and for the University College of Cayman Islands.

David received his Doctorate from the University of Toronto and has three Masters degrees in Education, Psychology and Philosophy.  He has been honoured internationally by a number of organizations including:

• Recipient of the “HR Leadership Award” by the Asia-Pacific HR Congress
• Recipient of the “HR Distinction Award”  by the Israel HR Association
• One of four lifetime professionals with the honour of “Fellow” CHRP and a “Fellow Member” of HRPAO
• Honoured as a “Lifetime Member” of the Global Directory of Who’s Who
• Honoured as a “VIP Lifetime Member” of the “Presidential Who’s Who”
• Past President of the Organizational Psychology Section of the OPA

David has written over 38 journal and trade articles including "Leadership Capacity: The New Organizational Capability," “Innovative Team Learning,” “HR Metrics That Count,” and “Contextual Negotiations.”  David has written four business books: “Leadership Solutions” (Jossey-Bass, 2007, co-authored), “The Leadership Gap” (Wiley, 2005, co-authored), “High Performance HR” (Wiley, 2000), and “Beyond the Walls of Conflict” (McGraw Hill, 1996). For more information and free downloads of some of Dr. Weiss’ articles see www.weissinternational.ca