Dr. David Flint | Professor | Mentor | Entrepreneur

A Professor’s Mind with an Entrepreneur’s Heart

David Flint is a professor, mentor, musician, world traveler, dog walker and, as an entrepreneur, a habitual risk taker. He has been engaged in entrepreneurial activities since the early 1980s across multiple industries and is presently involved in board or leadership positions across business endeavors in software applications, real estate, and insurance. David serves on the board of several not-for-profit organizations with both domestic and international activities and is passionate about helping businesses, entrepreneurs, and individuals succeed. Toward that end, David developed the V-REEL™ framework to help organizations and individuals think beyond value and create sound strategy for business and for life.

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Strategy

Strategic Thinking for Teams

Spend a few hours with David learning the fundamentals of the V-REEL™ Framework and come away with a new sense of how you create value in the marketplace, what might erode away that value over time, and what you might do to extend the life of your value proposition. Teams learn the language of V-REEL™, fostering more effective communication, strategic thinking, and sound planning.

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Consulting

Strategy Development

Whether you need support starting your strategy formulation process or require a longer-term advisor, David provides meaningful insights as he guides executive and teams through a complete strategy formulation process. Using the V-REEL™ Framework as a guide, David can quickly focus strategic thinking on the issues most critical to your ability to create value in the marketplace.

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Workshops

Putting V-REEL™ to Work

David's workshops bring together business leaders from across industries to get oriented to the V-REEL™ Framework and put it to work to support sound decision making. Half-day and full-day workshops provide an introduction to the framework, in-depth discussion, and team learning to apply V-REEL™ to specific business situations. Participants benefit from networking opportunities and team learning.

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THINK BEYOND VALUE

Think Beyond Value: Building Strategy to Win is an easy to read, conversational presentation of Dr. David Flint's V-REEL™ Framework for strategy formulation. This simple, memorable framework helps users organize and assess ideas, information, and data so they can form sound, well-reasoned strategic action plans.

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What does it mean to be a company?

A look at the origin of the word company reveals the single element essential to the success of any organization. Dr. David Flint uses examples from across the ages to drive home the importance of understanding the real value your organization offers and what it takes to keep delivering in a dynamic marketplace.

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The pivot less company

In an entrepreneurial climate where the pivot is the expectation rather than the exception, Dr. David Flint is calling foul. At best, the pivot problem offers entrepreneurs a way around essential planning and at worst, costs companies and investors unnecessary losses. Dr. Flint offers a simple process so companies can pivot less and profit more.

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Is it time to bet the company?

In a marketplace that vacillates between eager enthusiasm for the next big innovation, and bracing warily for coming disruptors, it can be difficult to know when to stay the course and when to bet big on a bold new path. Dr. David Flint presents his proven approach to considering where you are today, and a process for forming entrepreneurial strategy rooted in sound reasoning.

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Insights

Common Language Shapes Stronger More Vibrant Communities & Economies

In part two of the podcast with Kirk Thompson, we shift away from his personal development story to focus on development opportunities in his community. Kirk is imagining how a common framework and language like V-REEL™ might contribute to the formation of unified vision and re-development plans in St. Croix, US Virgin Islands in the aftermath of the major 2017 hurricanes, Irma and Maria. Read More...

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V-REEL™ Yourself to See and Build Personal Value

Kirk Thompson has worked in a lot of different environments (that's him working underwater in the photo above). He's worked in government, big corporate, small business, as an entrepreneur, and as a volunteer and philanthropist - always applying his education and ever-growing experience as a data analyst to enhance corporate strategy and build a successful career. Kirk also happens to have been around in the very earliest days of the V-REEL™ Framework when I was first using it as a tool to teach... Read More...

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A Professor’s Mind with an Entrepreneur’s Heart

consulting SERVICES

Strategy

Strategic Thinking for Teams

Consulting

Strategy Development

Workshops

Putting V-REEL™ to Work

THINK BEYOND VALUE

Get your copy of Think Beyond Value: Building Strategy to Win

speaking TOPICS

What does it mean to be a company?

The pivot less company

Is it time to bet the company?

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Insights

Common Language Shapes Stronger More Vibrant Communities & Economies

V-REEL™ Yourself to See and Build Personal Value