Dan Pontefract

Dan Pontefract is a Canadian businessman and writer.

Early life and education Pontefract is from Stoney Creek, Ontario. He earned a Bachelor of Education (BEd) in 1994 and a degree in Educational Technology in 1995 from McGill University. He received an MBA from Royal Roads University in 2002. He then served as the Chief Envisioner and Chief Learning Officer at the Canadian national telecommunications company Telus. There he launched the Telus Transformation Office to improve workplace culture and the Telus MBA, "a customized executive MBA tailored for promising employees" at University of Victoria's Peter B. Gustavson School of Business. Pontefract also serves as an adjunct professor at the business school.

In 2018, Pontefract was named to the Thinkers50 Radar list of the "30 management thinkers most likely to shape the future of how organizations are managed and led."

Personal life Pontefract is married to Denise Lamarche, a fellow alumnus of McGill. and Open to Think also won the 2019 getAbstract International Book Award.

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