Daniel Strode

Dan has 10 years of banking experience, spending the past 5 years working for Banco Santander, with a global mandate, based out of the Madrid Head Quarters: defining the Global HR Strategy and working on implementing a Common Culture (The Santander Way) across an organisation that spans 32 different countries and counts on more than 200,000 colleagues to deliver for its customers.

In addition to being a practitioner, Dan has spent years researching high performing and innovative companies from across the world, and across industries. Taking insights from Asia, through Europe, and, North & South America he recently published “The Culture Advantage: Empowering Your People to Drive Innovation” which looks at eight key cultural principles that the world’s best companies deploy day-in day-out in order to sustain high levels of success.

CORPORATE EXPERIENCE

• Global Human Resources Director, Banco Santander, Spain, 2017 – Present

• Author, The Culture Advantage, Kogan Page, 2021 – Present

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

• Adjunct Professor of Talent Development and Human Resources, IE University, Spain, 2020 – Present

• Various Adjunct Professorships for Culture and Innovation practices, Global, 2020 – Present

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

• BSc in Business Management, Salford University, United Kingdom, 2010