Daniel Posternak

Daniel is the founder of WP Consultants and serves as a Chair for Vistage, the world’s largest CEO peer advisory organization, facilitating confidential peer groups for CEOs and business owners. Daniel approaches executive coaching as a business-critical intervention — not as a detached personal development exercise.

While he works with leaders facing performance challenges, promotion transitions, succession readiness, delegation conflicts, emotional intelligence gaps, or board-level exposure, he does not view these as isolated personal issues. Every engagement is framed within the leader’s role, organizational system, and measurable business impact.

He integrates individual development with: strategic context, role clarity and authority, cross-functional coordination, decision quality, and cultural and systemic dynamics. Rather than adhering to a single methodology, Daniel draws from multiple leadership frameworks, behavioral science, systemic thinking, and real-world executive experience. His approach is pragmatic, adaptive, and grounded in results.

He does not separate leadership growth from business performance. For Daniel, personal evolution, coordinated action, and organizational outcomes are inseparable. His style is direct yet respectful, insight-driven and reflective, results-oriented and accountable, grounded in behavioral science (Hogan certified), adaptable across cultures and organizational systems.

Daniel has extensive international experience in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Spain, Panama, the United States, and Uruguay. He has coached and advised executives from companies including American Express, AXA, Citibank, Banco Itaú, BBVA, L’Oréal, Mercado Libre, Microsoft, SAP, and Santander.

Daniel is a published author of three book, including Ahora me toca a mí: Cómo liderar equipos, Stepping Up: How to Lead Teams (English adaptation), and Invulnerable. He has also been a Professor at the University of Buenos Aires, the School of Psychology, and School of Economic Sciences.

Certification

• Hogan Assessments

Education

• Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, Universidad of Buenos Aires
• Graduate Course in Organizational Coaching and Leadership, Universidad of Belgrano

Practice Areas

• Executive Coaching
• Team Performance Diagnostic
• Management Team Development and Training
• Cultural Assessment and Transformation
• Performance Development
• Leadership Assessment
• Executive Meeting Facilitation

Client Success Stories

Daniel has partnered with executive teams to:

• Reframe siloed leadership dynamics into collective accountability, shifting underperforming senior teams from isolated departmental success to shared ownership of ambitious common goals — resulting in full-team performance alignment.
• Guide a regional executive team through a $30M cost-reduction mandate by transforming a top-down directive into a co-created redesign process. In a single offsite session, the team generated and aligned around a reduction strategy that minimized business impact while strengthening commitment and execution.
• Lead post-acquisition integration between two pharmaceutical organizations — one highly process-driven, the other agile and entrepreneurial — preserving operational rigor while accelerating responsiveness and cultural cohesion.
• Resolve structural tension between a regional Latin American hub and country managers, rebuilding trust, transparency, and shared profit accountability, significantly improving collaboration and decision velocity.
• Transition from control-driven leadership to empowerment-based management. In one case, a bank CEO shifted from seeking “clones” of himself to building complementary strengths across his executive team — increasing autonomy, engagement, and collective performance.
• Navigate career acceleration. A technically strong but introverted insurance executive developed visibility, influence, and strategic presence through a deliberate exposure plan — progressing from a local technical role to Regional Leader and eventually Country General Manager.
• Transform destructive leadership behaviors. A technically brilliant Regional General Manager facing internal complaints recognized the systemic impact of his behavior and made a conscious shift toward respectful leadership — improving culture, retention, and executive credibility.
• Redefine board engagement. Leaders acquired by private equity learned to move from defensive reporting to value-creating dialogue — positioning board meetings as strategic working sessions rather than performance exams.