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Consulting · Churches
Helping churches grow healthy and scale well, from vision and culture to the hard seasons. Practical strategy for growth, planning, and leading through change.
Executive Coaching Church & Business Consulting
You weren't built
to lead alone.
Vision, transformation, and the relentless pursuit of a greater, collective purpose. Coaching and consulting for leaders in business and the church.
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The premise
Success is not an
individual endeavor.
As Bono once sang, "Sometimes you can't make it on your own." And we agree. Besides, why would you want to?
We are not meant to go it alone in life, leadership, and business. Success is not an individual endeavor. It takes knowledge, creativity, and the experience of people who have been there before us, through the successes and the failures. And there will be failures. But that is where we learn and grow, together.
Dan has launched three companies as an entrepreneur, two of which were highly successful and one that failed miserably. As a corporate executive, he has traveled the world collaborating with global giants such as Google, Facebook, HP, Nike, and Burton Snowboards.
Currently serving as Executive Pastor at Sandals Church, Dan is a driving force behind building a dream team dedicated to spiritual growth and community impact.
Dan's expertise includes building a transformational multi-generational culture, breakthrough strategies and scaling up, vision and strategic development, executive coaching, career mapping, crisis-healing support, and more. He values tailored fit and bringing significant value to both the individual and the organization.
About Dan
An executive mentor, change agent, and inspirer of purpose.
Dan Zimbardi leaves an enduring impact on individuals and organizations alike. His journey through entrepreneurship, corporate leadership, and spiritual guidance reflects a commitment to transformation, innovation, and the relentless pursuit of a greater, collective purpose.
- Corporate Leadership
- As an entrepreneur, Dan has launched three companies. As a corporate executive, he has collaborated with global giants including Google, Facebook, HP, Nike, and Burton Snowboards, navigating the complexities of business with a blend of vision and pragmatism.
- Spiritual Leadership
- Executive Pastor at Sandals Church, one of the largest and fastest-growing congregations in America, where he helps lead a team dedicated to spiritual growth and community impact.
- Scaling Organizations
- In the for-profit and non-profit worlds alike, Dan has led organizations through seasons of significant scale, uniting people behind something bigger than themselves.
- Turnaround Specialist
- A pivotal hand in revitalizing large, complex global businesses, breathing new life into organizations facing hard challenges and steering them toward sustainable growth.
- Personal Life
- Married to his wife, Lori, for over two decades, with four children. The Zimbardi family lives in Southern California and loves homemade pizza, golf, pickleball, and time together.
Dan Zimbardi
30
Years in growth & scale
3
Companies founded
14
Years at Sandals Church
40K+
Reached every weekend
How we'll work together
Three rooms
I know well.
No pricing tables. Tell me what you're building, and I'll send details, including pricing, tailored to where you actually are.
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Consulting · Businesses
Corporate rigor and thirty years of operating experience aimed at the problems that move the business, from growth and finances to culture, crisis, and the eventual exit.
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Coaching · One-on-One
Personal, one-on-one coaching for the whole person. Sharper thinking and real growth across work, calling, relationships, and the long arc of your life.
The process
A simple,
proven path.
One clear process, whether you're a church, a business, or an individual. Four steps that turn where you are into where you're going.
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Discovery
I start by grasping where you are and how you got here: the history of the church, the business, or the person. Honest assessment too, including Enneagram, DiSC, and StrengthsFinder for individuals.
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Planning
One simple, documented plan. Where you're going, what gets measured, the major milestones and gates, and the strategies to get there.
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Execution
The doing of the plan, with a regular rhythm of reviewing where it stands and adjusting as reality unfolds.
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Review
A look back at the full cycle. What was accomplished, where value was created, and what to change for the next engagement or season.
Areas of expertise
What I'm
known for.
Five disciplines, built over three decades across the boardroom and the church. They travel together: people, vision, culture, intelligence, and growth that lasts.
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People Selection & Development
One thing that hasn't changed through the generations is the imperative to select and develop great people to do their life's work.
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Organizational Vision & Strategy
A clear vision and the strategy to reach it, with an operating rhythm that keeps it honest month after month.
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Culture Building & Development
Culture eats vision for lunch. Define it on purpose, or a few personalities will define it for you.
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AI Strategy & Deployment
Bringing AI into your organization with clarity and conviction, built for the way your team actually works.
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Growth & Scale
Starting, fixing, scaling. The healthy, sustained kind of growth that holds long after I'm gone.
In the room, leadership development on the floor.
The right fit
I do my best work with organizations in motion.
Starting something new. Fixing something broken. Scaling something that's working. Church or business, if you're in motion and the stakes are real, that's my room.
- StartingStartup mode, from a one-page plan to a living organization.
- FixingFix-it mode, turn a season of survival into the healthiest year yet.
- ScalingGrowth mode, build the systems that let it multiply.
Success is what happens
after you're gone.
Reviews
What leaders say.
Open any quote to read it in full.
A true leader who empowers others
"A true leader empowers others through faith, wisdom, and example. Dan's strength is rooted in Christ, his heart is shaped by service, and his life is a beacon guiding others toward greatness."
Dan sees what you can't see
"Dan sees what you can't see about your own leadership, then hands you the tools and roadmap to grow into it. His wisdom is matched only by his encouragement, and every conversation with him moves me forward. I'm incredibly grateful for his guidance."
My best decisions start with Dan
"My best decisions start with Dan. As the scale of my business choices has grown, so has the wisdom they demand, and Dan has raised my wisdom quotient dramatically, offering sharp feedback on my ideas while surfacing the blind spots in my strategic thinking."
Watch & listen
In his
own words.
Conversations on leadership, culture, succession, and bringing AI into the organization, from the stages and studios where Dan has shared the work.
Latest thinking
Straight from
LinkedIn.
LinkedIn is where Dan does most of his writing on leadership, culture, and calling. Here's the latest of what he's thinking about.
The first step
Let's talk.
No obligation.
A free, 30-minute call. Tell me what you're building, fixing, or scaling, and whether I'm the right person to help you get there. No pitch, just a real conversation.