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Be Curious
Among business leaders, David Beale is a role model for what’s possible.
Executive whole-life coach, trainer, and founder of InsideOut Leadership Group, David has committed his professional life to entrepreneurial pursuits. At age 24, he founded his first company wholesaling college financial planning software services to large brokerage houses and financial professionals. This business evolved into a holding company from which he founded several businesses, including growing a flexible workplace company from startup to over $600 million per year in global revenue.
A CEO who embraces Leader-as-Coach, much David has learned began in 1996 with YPO (Young President’s Organization). Today he is bringing his unique ability to turn insight into sustainable improvement to the forefront. While many experiences and people he met through YPO shaped his life, none were more impactful, potent and life changing than his experiences with YPO Forum and Forum Retreats. Experiences that he is grateful to still be actively engaged with to this day as participant, moderator and coach.
As an entrepreneurial CEO, David has experienced the challenges and opportunities leaders can face building a thriving business. You know the drill – going from idea to strategic plan, funding it, and pivoting through all stages of the maturation process. Concurrently, building teams around vision and values, responding to competitive threats and emerging technologies – all while adjusting to the ups and downs of changing economies. Not to mention the personal struggles and internal toll which are unique to founders, CEOs and other senior executives.
What is David’s prime mover?
Curiosity. A curiosity which leads him to adopt a deep set of values for learning and continuous improvement. Through openness and synchronicity, he has benefited from many mentors, inspired employees and other founders and CEO’s who have helped him navigate the ups and downs of personal and professional life. And always at just the right time.
He brings decades of his ongoing work and personal focus on mental fitness and performance improvement to his coaching practice. Most vital to a balanced and happy life is the genuine fulfillment he feels internally, in relationships with business leaders he calls friends, and in his passion for coaching CEO’s and their teams.
David lives in NY with his wife Stephanie and enjoys family experiences with three young adult stepchildren, golf, biking, kayaking and adventure travel. He personifies a commitment to health and wellbeing – and that all-important sense of curiosity about leadership, love and life.