Dave Harden - Biography

DAVID B. HARDEN is an entrepreneur, husband, and father of four. He currently is Director of Energy City, a venture attracting, nurturing, and developing energy companies in South Carolina. Dave is a frequently requested speaker and writer on innovation and strategic thinking and has helped companies save over $360 million. He has provided strategic training for organizations from the World Health Organization in the public sector to United Occidental Petroleum, Shell, BP and Halliburton in the energy sector.

Dave is currently working on his next book, Raising Millionaire Minds. He previously co-authored Continuity Management: Preserving Corporate Knowledge and Productivity When Employees Leave and his writings have been in numerous publications to include the Journal of Organizational Excellence. He was invited to be part of Harvard’s Learning Innovations Labs and selected as an International Who’s Who for Professional Management in 2004. Dave has results-oriented expertise in leadership, team building, succession planning, strategic management and innovation facilitation. He earned his BS in electrical engineering at the U.S. Air Force Academy and an MA in organizational management at The George Washington University, Washington, DC.

Interestingly, he also piloted the $225 million, technologically advanced C-17, and has over 3,500 flight hours, including combat time in Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia and Kosovo. He has developed U.S. Presidential statements on policy to the United Nations and NATO, served at the Pentagon, appeared on CNN, and was selected as an International Who’s Who for Public Service in 2002.

He serves on the Board of Trustees for The Heritage Place, providing family style home life for disadvantaged kids and most recently was a nominee for the Ten Outstanding Young Americans Award.