Dr. Dan S. Bagley III

Dan enjoys life as an educator and a businessman. For two decades he has worked as a human performance expert, consulting and conducting seminars nationally and internationally. In doing so he combines his background in business and education with his ongoing research into human performance factors.

  Dan is president of Bagley and Associates, a company dedicated to improving human performance through personal coaching and seminars. He is also a former founding partner of Sterling Research Group, an international market research company, and is a former founding director of Seahawk Deep Ocean Technology, the company that discovered and excavated the first Spanish colonial galleon found in deep water. He is additionally a tenured professor of mass communications at the University of South Florida in Tampa.

  Dan is author of numerous publications for Promotional Products Association International. He is the longest-running faculty member of PPA's executive and sales development seminars, with over 20 years of instruction and coaching experience. Dan is co-author of the internationally-acclaimed book, Beyond Selling: How to Maximize Your Personal Influence, which is now published in four languages. He has also published over 80 articles on communication, business and creative behavior.

  Dan's love is working to empower individuals and organizations through helping them establish their individual and group purpose and then teaching the most appropriate personal and team skills for realizing that purpose. Seminar topics include: Uncaging Your Creative Potential, How to Maximize Your Personal Influence, A.C.T.I.O.N.S. for Greatness, How to Have the Time You Need, and combinations of the above to suit specific client needs.

  His corporate clients over the years have included such diverse companies as General Electric, Sperry & Hutchinson, Dun & Bradstreet, Libby-Owens Ford, American Floral Services, Publix, GTE and Malrite Communications.

  Dan's academic background includes a B.S. in Advertising from Florida State University, an M.B.A. from the University of Hawaii (earned in night school while serving as an Army Medical Service Corps officer in Japan), and a Ph.D. in communications from the University of Tennessee. His academic honoraries include Beta Gamma Sigma (Business), Kappa Tau Alpha (Mass Communications), and Phi Kappa Phi (Interdisciplinary). He is a certified Master Level NLP Practitioner and is a colleague of the Creative Education Foundation.

  Dan is married to Dr. Ann Hero Bagley, his partner and best friend. They have two children, Drew and Jana.