Dan Coleman, Ph.D.
A deeply experienced designer and educator, Dan has built strategy for Fortune 500 companies; led non-profits, for-profits, schools and universities; and served as a high school teacher, a college professor, and a grad school dean.
As a principal at Continuum, a global innovation and design consultancy, Dan partnered with senior leadership at firms including PepsiCo, BBVA, and Johnson & Johnson, helping clients build the capacity to innovate into their training, culture, workspace, and operations.
In his former life, Dan spent 20 years in the world of education. He taught literature and philosophy at high schools like Andover and Stuyvesant, co-founded a teacher education program at Bennington; turned around the graduate program at Skidmore; helped run an independent high school outside of Boston and a charter network in New York; and drove learning design for the ELA division of Amplify, an ed tech firm delivering digital curricula to 4,000+ school districts across all 50 states.
More recently, Dan led the design and build of an individualized, competency-based, STEM-focused teacher education through a partnership between MIT and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.
Dan holds an interdisciplinary humanities degree from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in English from Cornell.
Dan draws on a range of partners to meet the needs of specific clients and projects.