“ We met Dave Williams by reaching out after reading his article on Forbes "why to fill your company with Athletes," a piece that was one of our biggest influences in starting InXAthlete. The day after speaking with Dave on the phone, he was out at our office for a meeting. One in-person meeting is all it took to convince us that we needed Dave to be a part of our team and serve on our board. Dave is a genuine leader who has an innate ability to follow his gut, which is always right. Don't be fooled, though, Dave's gut isn't just driven by instinct. Years of starting businesses or helping businesses grow and transact have given Dave a breadth of knowledge that any size company would find valuable. ” - May 2020
“ Dave is the leader that every start up CEO needs and a must for every Founder, Investor and Board Member. I've spent two decades working in multiple industries and, in every company hired, I was ultimately promoted to run the group/team in which I worked. None of that, prepared me for my first role as a start up CEO. The reality that no one tells you, most startups fail but David Williams will change the odds. Dave is the X factor in achieving results! I've had the pleasure of working with Dave as a colleague, mentor and now as a friend. He's helped me understand the, why! Evaluating every aspect of each business and why it wasn't working or how to press the accelerator on growth. Successful execution is not luck, Dave will dive in, head-first, and crawl, walk and run by your side till it works. I can't say enough about Dave, he's the 6th man everyone needs on the court, in the locker room and your biggest fan from the bench. He can play any role because he's done it but too humble to brag. His track record speaks for itself. Dave plays any position, fills the gaps, and changes the game. Don't make a bet, change the odds! Stop thinking about how and if he can help. Call me and I'll tell you. ” - April 2020
“ Dave gets results and he gets them at breakneck speed. What makes Dave unique is the way he achieves them. You will find Consultants that have closed deals, sold companies, written books. Dave has done all of that. But there is something fundamentally different about how Dave gets things done - he drives movement through relationships, by a deep belief in his people, by inspiring and motivating through supportive listening and empowerment. While Dave has strategic acumen and maniacal execution skills in spades, this is what really sets Dave apart - being able to achieve incredible outcomes quickly through positive relationship management, honesty, and humanity. The result is a healthier bottom line, a more engaging work place, a more confident work force, and a celebration of human capital in an organization that echoes on long after Dave has set it in motion. ” - March 2020
“ As we look to make sense of our world there have been a few individuals that have guided our journey towards True North. Our organization has relied on Dave time and time again to be a bright and visible light helping to navigate our ship sometimes in a starless night. Wisdom, energy and compassion are words I would use to describe our friend, mentor and collaborator. Dave came into our fund and portfolio and became our white knight. Someone that we could count on to facilitate and lead among various stakeholders. What Dave is really, really good at is translating the human to the operational. He provided us a daily masterclass in the art of wielding soft power in complex global organizations and in the end improved our business outcomes. When you meet a very special person it is just good policy to pass that name on. ” - March 2020
“ Dave helped close the deal on my first exit. He is kind, yet persistent. That talent helped keep negotiations moving, even though many times it looked like the deal would stall. Dave listened, getting to know our business well. His ideas for improvement were well suited to our culture. When we took him on trips to visit strategic partners, he fit into our team like a veteran. Dave is able to focus, and get results fast. Our return on investment was only a couple months after he started. ” - March 2020
“ I have known Dave Williams since 2009, from the time he led a small team of software developers out of certain failure into success (which has done on multiple occasions over the last 4 decades) and market dominance, during one of the worst economic time periods the U.S. and perhaps the world had endured. David is a leader and a survivor and above all, he is not afraid to persevere, no matter how hard the circumstances. Even more, though, he is a servant leader who is able to guide from the back, to inspire and compel people to bring their best, and to never forget the requirement to be a compassionate human being who is able to work hard, play hard and to lead from the heart. I would recommend him as the missing piece to any organization and would gladly work with him anytime and anywhere. David's messages to the HBR audience compelled his readers so greatly they served as the genesis of his book, ‘The 7 Non Negotiables of Winning' from Wiley & Sons. The publisher reached out to him, they were so compelled by the real stories of character-based leadership he shared. ” - March 2020
“ Having known and watched Dave Williams for almost 40 years, I can attest first-hand that Dave is in a class by himself. He has experience in so many areas of business and life! He worked for a national firm that I owned, while going through his university studies, and was the top sales rep out of 5,000 sales reps. He was a big-time manager that was tops in recruitment and production. Our pathways crossed again with Covey Leadership where Dave was part of a small team of executives that took their “First Things First” division from a hand-full of day-long seminars to over 600 seminars in 18 months, while at the same time going from 20,000 organizer users to over 150,000. This is the type of result that Dave has helped to produce over and over during his career. He is fun to work with, experienced, business savvy, and cares about people. Dave would be an amazing asset to help anyone who has a dream and looking for ways to make that dream come true. ” - March 2020
“ I have had the honor and privilege of knowing and working closely with Dave Williams for the past several years. I knew Dave when he ran Fishbowl and found myself always feeding from his wealth of experience in business as I was trying to grow my own higher education businesses during those times. Dave is an amazing professional, entrepreneur, tutor, visionary, and human being and he has helped many businesses reach their full potential and their full measure by teaching principals that he has lived by, grown successful business with, and believed in and taught others for most of his adult life. Dave is a key member of the financial committee of Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions (RMU), a proprietary exclusively graduate healthcare education institution in Provo, Utah which I co-founded. Dave brings a valued history of success in building and growing businesses to the ranks of RMU and we have been much the better since he joined our company. Dave is a treasure to all who know him. I truly value my business and processional relationship and association with this business leader and giant but even more so value my personal friendship and relationship with this man that I trust and highly recommend to any and all who desire to grow, fine tune and maximize their businesses to their fullest potential. ” - March 2020
“ Dreamer, visionary, risk-taker, innovator, leader, change-agent, and compassionate friend. These are terms I've used to describe David Williams over the last decade. A track record that speaks of hard-won successes, gritty bootstrapping, and instinctive investments has turned doubters to believers and ideas into dollars. Yet, through all his business savvy, what makes Williams unique is much more personal. Above all, he is personal. Compassion and empathy flow through his veins and enrobe his clients and colleagues in a deep sense of connection. Williams absorbs your passion as his own and his commitment is nothing short of personal. Whether collaborating on a national publication, serving in a community organization, identifying strategic marketing opportunities, or simply sharing space in the same meeting, I am constantly learning from him. And, a decade later, I'm confident I've still much to learn.” - March 2020