David Byrd

`David Byrd is a business leader, best-selling author, and dynamic keynote speaker. He has over 30 years of experience working with top leaders and their organizations, including serving as president of Leadership Management(R), Inc., an international leadership and organizational development company. David uses a development model that focuses on leadership development and organizational planning. He completed both his undergraduate and graduate work at the University of South Carolina in 1969...See more

`David Byrd is a business leader, best-selling author, and dynamic keynote speaker. He has over 30 years of experience working with top leaders and their organizations, including serving as president of Leadership Management(R), Inc., an international leadership and organizational development company. David uses a development model that focuses on leadership development and organizational planning. He completed both his undergraduate and graduate work at the University of South Carolina in 1969. He began his career as a high school football coach and later went on to coach at the college level. He began his career with LMI in 1979 as an LMI Partner in South Carolina. He was invited to join the LMI home office executive staff in 1981 and relocated to Waco, Texas. David credits Paul J. Meyer, the founder of LMI, as being a significant influence in his work in the leadership development field and recognizes that everything in this book was stimulated from that influence. He is very active in his church, First United Methodist Church of Waco, Texas, where he has served as an adult Sunday school teacher for over 20 years. His first book Lessons for a Lifetime is a summary of his experiences as an adult Sunday school teacher. David and his wife Mary have two daughters and five grandchildren. You may contact David at davidbyrd@trippingpointbooks.com See less