Define
Create a clear picture of future-state success and the value the organization must deliver to its stakeholders.
About Dave Coffaro
Strategic thinking grounded in real leadership experience.
Dave helps leaders and organizations navigate change, strengthen strategic focus, and turn future-state vision into aligned, practical action.
The work
Helping organizations remain relevant, aligned, and ready.
All operating models have a shelf life. Dave’s work begins by clarifying what success must look like next, then translating that picture into priorities, behaviors, capabilities, and execution.
His consulting experience spans financial services firms, privately held businesses, nonprofit organizations, and leaders in transition. Engagements are designed to be practical, collaborative, and tailored to the organization’s culture and strategic context.
Experience
Advisor, executive, educator, author, and community leader.
Dave’s career combines hands-on operating leadership with strategy development, organization transformation, talent development, and communication.
4Leadership and business books
30+Years across financial services, strategy, and leadership
360°Perspective as advisor, executive, board member, coach, and educator
Career journey
Experience across sectors and leadership settings.
Current leadership
President & CEO, Greater Irvine Chamber
Advancing business success, economic competitiveness, collaboration, and innovation across Irvine and Orange County.
Strategic Advisory Consulting Group
Principal, strategic advisor & executive coach
Guiding leaders in business-model strategy, organization effectiveness, change leadership, and vision execution.
Executive leadership
For-profit and nonprofit CEO assignments
Leadership roles have included Interim President & CEO of Members Trust Company and Interim CEO of Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County.
Financial services
Bank of America and Wells Fargo
Led teams and strategy across commercial banking, private banking, wealth management, fiduciary services, and international trade finance.
Education & professional development
Drucker-trained strategist and educator
MBA in Strategic Management from the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management; former strategic management instructor and professional-program leader.
How Dave works
A practical pathway from vision to execution.
The work is structured around clarity, alignment, disciplined inquiry, and active implementation—not a report that sits on a shelf.
Design
Translate the future state into priorities, operating-model choices, capabilities, roles, and strategic initiatives.
Deliver
Build momentum through aligned actions, leadership communication, accountability, and continual refinement.
Bring strategic clarity to your next chapter.
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