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Dan Knight is a retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel on his second career as an award-winning speaker and writer, as well as performance coach. He has helped thousands of managers become more-effective strategic decision makers, innovators and influencers. He is a past president of the National Speakers Association-DC and a past dean of its Speakers Academy. He served as a past vice chair of the Creative Education Foundation, and continues as an instructional leader-facilitator at its Creative Problem Solving Institute. He is also a long-term seminar leader for the American Management Association wher he developed its first knowledge management program, and is a contributing editor for Strategic & Leadership, a leading business strategy journal.