About Upfront Leadership
Upfront Leadership is led by Dan Gross, an experienced executive coach and healthcare leader.
For over two decades, Dan has dedicated his career to helping individuals and organizations tackle tough challenges to serve their clients, employees, and communities.
Dan is a Certified Executive Coach with the Center for Executive Coaching and an ACC-level International Coaching Federation credentialed coach. He has over 10 years of coaching experience - guiding leaders and individual contributors in large healthcare organizations, and technology and manufacturing startups.
Dan currently serves as Chief Operating Officer at Stanford Blood Center, a division of Stanford Health, where he oversees 250+ staff in donor-facing and laboratory settings. At Stanford, he has developed a leadership development program for aspiring leaders, leading to several successful promotions.
Dan's career journey has spanned diverse industries— including healthcare, technology, manufacturing, consulting, and human resources. He has served in strategy, sales and operational roles in the US and Asia, including founding and running an affordable housing startup in India.
Dan has an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a William T. Morris Foundation Fellow.
Coaching Approach
"The problem in my life and other people’s lives is not the absence of knowing what to do, but the absence of doing it." - Peter Drucker
At Upfront Leadership, we help clients create concrete plans to tackle their challenges head on. We believe that if you don't deal with your issues directly and candidly, they will deal with you.
We help both experienced managers, aspiring leaders and career switchers achieve career growth and upward movement by honestly diagnosing their challenges and taking tangible steps to overcome them.
For experienced managers, this includes navigating conflict, giving and receiving feedback, building cultures of accountability and servant leadership, stakeholder influence, organizational design, succession management, and positioning for promotion.
For aspiring leaders and career switchers, this includes understanding market demand for your skills, resume optimization, interview preparation, and networking.
Regardless of where you are in your career, we can help you find new insights and act on them to achieve your goals.
If you're ready to step boldly into the next stage of your leadership journey, let’s connect.