Dave Sherman
Dave Sherman & Co.
Dave’s focus is on thought leadership, executive counsel, and education. He helps executives formulate and execute breakthrough strategies that combine stakeholder based insights with industry and company specific sources of advantage. He assists companies in developing strategies that drive innovation and create value for the business and its stakeholders and works to fully integrate a stakeholder perspective into the business model. He has also been instrumental in developing Blu Skye’s approach to industry-level sustainability initiatives for the dairy and magazine industries.
For the past 25 years he has served clients on five continents. He was a founding partner of Sustainable Value Partners and a Vice President with A.T. Kearney where he led an Asia-based practice. Clients include: Bunge, Cathay Pacific Aiwrays, Dairy Management Inc., City of Cleveland, Philips Electronics, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Staples, Wal-Mart, WellPoint, Westinghouse and other leaders in sectors such as agriculture, chemicals, consumer products, energy utilities, financial services, government, healthcare, high-tech, oil and gas, retail, and transportation. During this time Dave has led more than a dozen company-wide and unit-level strategy engagements as well as several dozen operations engagements aimed at improving cost, service, and quality position of clients’ operations.
He earned his doctorate in management at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University where he researched social entrepreneurship and actively participates in the school's Fowler Center for Sustainable Business. He also holds an M.B.A. from UC Berkeley and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University.
Dave is a distinguished Fellow of the Fowler Center for Sustainable Value at Case Western Reserve University where he is currently leading a project to explore the topic of Spirituality in Business.