About me
I’m like your grandpa’s recliner: inviting, pretty laid-back, plenty supportive, and there when you need me. Except better, because I can hold your cup for you.
I’m like your grandpa’s recliner: inviting, pretty laid-back, plenty supportive, and there when you need me. Except better, because I can hold your cup for you.
A council of 31 cultured 7 and 8 year olds decided I was to be the class artist.
How do you measure the impact of a safety patrol leader? Accident-free year, that's how.
No strangers. Only friends I haven’t met yet.
High School TV Newscaster. I’m kind of a big deal.
80,000 Rádio Tocantins listeners. 132°F. 52 hour bus ride. 8 states. 2 dengue fever run-ins. 1 life-changing experience.
After 7 years of best-friendship, married my high school sweetheart May 2008
Won the Grand Prize at a University-wide inventor’s competition.
At the end of a discussion-based course on “success” by Richard Shell, my peers rated me the top classroom contributor.
While working for the FBI - it feels pretty good when Congress recognizes your efforts.
Will be preaching comms until the day I die. Or until mind-reading comes back into vogue. Whichever comes first.
Licensed in California & Virginia - I love to help people beat the system and confidently buy the right home at a great price. For real.
I've personally presented to 110,000+ people at various social impact conferences Here I am adding mine to the voices of Joe Biden, John Kerry, Alec Baldwin, and Jane Goodall at the Social Good Summit.
But half a pickle shy of winning a county-wide pickle-eating contest is an experience I wish I could forget. Maybe it's symbolic for my life in other ways, I guess.
Learned crisis negotiation from the best in the world while at the F.B.I. What surprised me most? How applicable all of it is to raising toddlers.
“When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.”
- John Ruskin
"The personal relationship I have developed with Daniel has permitted me to witness his strong work-ethic, sincere humility, and insatiable appetite for learning. He has become very familiar with the important public policy issues of the day in Brazil. Daniel is uniquely able to approach these issues from a variety of angles, as he counts among his close friends members of every Brazilian social and economic class and is completely fluent in both spoken and written Portuguese."Paulo Biancardi Coury, General Secretary of Health, Brasil
"Daniel Harbuck was the most organized and responsible of all my communications coaches semester after semester. He was proactive and assumed a leadership role in selecting and training the other coaches and providing continuity across semesters. He was instrumental in motivating other coaches and student teams with his upbeat nature. He has enormous talent and a successful track record in communications coaching; his teams consistently outperformed other teams in their peer feedback scores. He was an outstanding coach and won best teaching assistant award at Wharton during his senior year in 2009."Betsy Bailey, Commissioner, Civil Aeronautics Board and Chairperson, Wharton Business and Public Policy Department.
"I see Daniel as helpful, calm, and talented. I often seek his help and advice in complex matters. When I make major life decisions, I'm never hesitant to share my deepest fears and longings with him. He helps me come to my own conclusions by sharing any number of quotes and stories. These phrases and parables are not only flawlessly memorized, but always apply perfectly to my situation. He knows the written words of world famous leaders and authors, in addition to the feelings and experiences of everyday people he has met across the globe. To him, everyone is someone worth listening to and learning from. Combined with his ability to quickly discern a person's feelings and needs, his memory bank is the perfect remedy for any problem or concern."Rebecca Harbuck, Phenomenal Sister & World Citizen
"After 17 years working with student government, I continue to use Daniel as the example of the best student body president I have ever known. Most people run for student body president because it feeds their ego, but Daniel is the exception to that norm. He wanted to serve, to get more students involved, to help everyone find their passion - and he had enough passion to spread around."Linda Richmond Hale, Overseer of the Body Politic
"I have been acquainted with Daniel Harbuck since 2003. He was a remarkable student of ours at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. One of his most outstanding attributes - one that has been widely recognized through various awards he has achieved - is his innovative and creative mind. He is also a wonderful and caring colleague and has a rather unique talent when it comes to befriending people. He does this through truly caring, and through service. Daniel is also an extraordinary leader - one who leads through example and vision, and one who earns the respect of others."David F. Babbel, Professor Emeritus, The Wharton School, Senior Financial Economist, The World Bank
"It is becoming disappointingly rare, in a world becoming more and more focused on "progress at the expense of..." mentality, to meet someone who embodies the astute businessman and humanitarian. Daniel Harbuck is one such person. Having worked on businesses and new projects with him beginning within the humble halls of the Wharton school, and branching out to the ever-changing "real world," I can say without a doubt, that he is a visionary, an innovator, a teacher, a leader, a challenger. He's not afraid to to challenge a conflicting opinion, but never at the expense of the self-respect of those around him. He is a shining example of a breed of businessman society as late (especially in light of certain economic mishaps) has all but seemingly forgotten. More CEOs and collaborators like him are necessary if hope is to be in our future."Johnathan Hall
"As I finish my first full calendar year on the job, I thought I should share what I see...we used sequestration as an opportunity to push hundreds of positions to the field, shrinking the size of Headquarters."- FBI Director James B. Comey New Year's Message to All Employees, referencing a project I executed first on his list of 2014 accomplishments
"Daniel has this positive energy that is contagious, he genuinely cares about us and our families - aside from training in extensive analysis, he also taught us how to be more approachable and lovable by example. I am so lucky to have had Daniel as my manager."Reni
66 countries (48 of which with at least one child!), 49 states, 6 continents, 2 districts, etc. There's a lot more exploring to do.
A person should be able to:
This one is a personal secret. I've always been a pretty average guy: my name was right in the middle of the class, the doctors always told me I was average height and weight for my age, and I was neither the firstborn nor the last. So when I first heard someone try to downplay a celebrity or major public figure by saying: "they still put their pants on one leg at a time, just like you and me" it all made sense to me somehow: I just had to learn one skill to stand out from the crowd. So now, if you possess the daring necessary to join a select group of greats, learn the anything-but-average "two-legs at a time trick."
If you still don’t think any of the above was the slightest reason to get to know me, consider this: my initials, when converted to numbers, equal 19. And that’s the atomic number of Potassium, which has a flaming reaction with water. Also, potassium makes your heart beat. Reach out and say "Hey/Olá/NíHáo/Namaste/Hallo" for speaking requests, prayer requests, or anything else in between (including just because).
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