About MCG
Practical partnership. Meaningful progress.
MCG helps organizations navigate complexity with clear thinking, inclusive facilitation, and a strengths-based understanding of people.
Leadership experience that meets people where they are.
For more than 25 years, Dan McGrew has led teams across workforce development, higher education, nonprofit service, operations, human resources, training, and organizational development.
That practitioner background shapes every engagement. The work is designed to be useful in the room and durable after the room—grounded in the organization’s goals, constraints, culture, and people.
Dan is a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach who helps leaders and teams understand what they naturally do well, create better partnerships, and build cultures where people can contribute at their best.
Workforce development experience
Connecting policy, people, and implementation.
Workforce development is a particular area of depth in Dan’s practice. He helps organizations turn complex mandates and changing conditions into strategies people can execute.
- Strategy and implementation advising aligned with evolving labor-market demands
- Navigation of public policy and funding requirements
- Alignment of organizational priorities with community needs
- Translation of complex requirements into practical plans and coordinated action
Dan’s Top 5 CliftonStrengths
Strengths in action.
- Communication — Makes complex ideas clear and memorable.
- Strategic — Quickly sees patterns, options, and paths forward.
- Activator — Turns productive discussion into meaningful action.
- Ideation — Brings fresh connections and possibilities to the work.
- Includer — Creates space for every voice to contribute.
Together, these strengths shape the MCG experience: ideas become clear, possibilities become plans, and people leave ready to move the work forward.
Additional experience across systems and sectors.
- Higher education and leadership development
- Nonprofit board service and governance
- Organizational development and change
- Regional and national operations
- Human resources and management
- Corporate training and public speaking