David Dame

Senior Director of Human Centered Design at Microsoft; Author of "Leading with Imperfect Feet"

Toronto, Canada
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Art & Design, Author, Business Consulting, Business Leadership, Change Management, Corporate Culture, Disability, Health & Wellness, Human Resources, Innovation, Leadership, Non-Fiction Authors, Teamwork & Teambuilding, Technology, TED
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David Dame Biography

Dave Dame brings the perfect mix of humor, inspiration and a professional approach to help your team in transition to leverage, implement and manage Agile best practices and quality management with the perfect focus on results and team collaboration.

Dame provides medium to large software and IT companies in Canada and the United States with agile management coaching and mentoring. He does this by enabling cross-organizational employee engagement. Agile does well within individual teams, but often doesn’t scale up and across organizations going through change management. Dame helps enterprises in transition to enable bottom-up innovation and agility by working with all levels, including leaders, executives, and teams.

Dame is experienced and has led a number of large scale agile transformations. He specializes in creating a workforce that is engaged in what and how they are driving long-term sustainability and efficiency of releasing software.

Dame drives change management in organizations as an organizational coach, business mentor, and team collaboration enabler, impressive at empowering individuals.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 06/08/2026.

David Dame Speaking Topics

  • Leadership

    In this new age, leaders have to understand their role in the organization. Expectations are changing and the role is harder than ever before. Dave Dame, world-class organizational change agent, talks about creating psychological safety, supporting and growing a continuous learning organization, and the wins possible with empowering bottom-up innovation.

    Learn what it means to measure yourself as a leader, understand that the right question is better than giving the right solution and how the commitment of "willing to sweep the floor" is what employees are looking for in our new age leaders.

    From pushing decisions down to others growth being your measuring stick Dave shared his first-hand experience being a Leader and working with Leaders to do what is best for the employee, customer and organization.

  • Change

    Change is hard, in fact, it's scary but change is necessary. Dave Dame, world-class organizational change agent, talks about organizations getting drunk on change initiatives and how a balanced approach provides the best chances for success.

    Dive into why change is critical, how you can't sell to yesterdays customer and the importance of understanding the organization does not change, it's the people within the organization.

    From the organization to the customer, Dave shares his experience in balancing between different types of change, articulating the unknown and the friction of change in his career and life.

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David Dame Videos

David Dame - MLSE Talks

David Dame - MLSE Talks

Rebooting Perspectives

Dave Dame - Scotiabank

Dave Dame - Scotiabank

The Power of Empathy in the Workplace

Dave Dame | TEDxToronto

Dave Dame | TEDxToronto

Sprinting with Cerebral Palsy

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Leading with Imperfect Feet: How my disability enabled me to become an even more agile leader
Leading with Imperfect Feet: How my disability enabled me to become an even more agile leader

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David Dame is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Leadership, Change, Innovation and Culture. The estimated speaking fee range to book David Dame for your event is available upon request. David Dame generally travels from Toronto, Canada and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Jason Dorland, Petra Velzeboer, Adam Markel, Peter van Manen and JP Pawliw-Fry. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling David Dame for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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