Dan Nielsen


Founder
  • National Institute for Healthcare Leadership - serves healthcare leaders throughout America

Founder & CEO
  • America’s Healthcare Leaders – sharing strategies and perspectives of healthcare leaders throughout America
  • National Institute for Successful Leadership – Serving Successful Leaders Throughout America
  • National Institute for Inspirational Leadership - serves inspirational leaders throughout America
  • Nielsen Inspiration - publishes a weekly electronic newsletter providing inspirational food for thought and action for leaders throughout America
  • Nielsen Properties - a real estate investment company

VHA Inc. A Fortune Magazine top 100 companies to work for in America
  • For nearly 15 years, Dan was the lead executive responsible for the national Education and Networking strategies and activities of VHA, America's largest hospital and healthcare national alliance with annual revenue exceeding 25 billion dollars
  • During Dan's tenure, VHA was named by Fortune Magazine 5 years in a row, as one of America's best 100 companies to work for in America. During those same years, Dan's area of responsibility within VHA was at the top of the company in both Customer Satisfaction and Employee Satisfaction.

CEO of Dallas Fort Worth Medical Center for 15 years
  • With vision, commitment and inspirational leadership, Dan built and led an organization which, in the beginning, was without funding, property, buildings, medical staff, and patients. That organization became a successful, profitable and rapidly growing medical center.

Education
  • Southern Nazarene University - Bachelor of Science in Business Administration
  • Washington University School of Medicine - Master of Healthcare Administration

Professor and Faculty Member
  • Washington University School of Medicine
  • University of Texas at Arlington
  • University of Dallas
  • University of North Texas Health Science Center

Presentations and Facilitation
  • In addition to being a highly successful inspirational leader, Dan has made hundreds of presentations and has planned, led and facilitated hundreds of senior executive meetings, retreats, seminars and conferences

Professional Affiliations
  • American College of Healthcare Executives
  • National Speakers Association
  • American Society of Association Executives
  • Rotary - Paul Harris Fellow

Hobbies and Personal
  • Reading, writing, memorizing inspirational literature, digital photography, and traveling in his Inspirational Vehicle
  • Dan is married, has two grown children and two grandchildren