Palmetto Leadership Center
Certified Partner
About Palmetto Leadership Center
We help business leaders develop and retain their key talent with complete confidence, so they can secure a competitive advantage without tireless firefighting.
We partner with executive leadership to develop custom experiences unique to their current challenges to optimize their talent, teams, and strategy. With more than 20 years of experience in manufacturing, we know what drives culture, job satisfaction, and retention and it’s not compensation and benefits – it’s the quality of the leadership at all levels and how they connect, communicate, and support their team members in getting results.
Team Leaders
Dave Baker
President/Owner & Lead Consultant
Dave is the founder and principal of Palmetto Leadership Center and is an ICF certified coach, and credentialed HR professional. Dave holds a master's degree in I/O Psychology from the Univ. of TN - Chattanooga and is a certified emotional intelligence practitioner with Genos International in addition to his affiliation with GetFive as a certified Career Coach.
Dave has been an integral member of our cultural change transformation at Nexteer Automotive. His ability to partner with an organization, and a department, is outstanding. His approach to change management both as a leader and teacher has been an invaluable combination for us. He challenges and coaches using various methods and he's available outside of formal sessions for individual coaching. His methods not only teach the team members but also enable them to become coaches themselves.
So why Dave you might ask yourself. First and foremost, Dave has not been a life-long consultant. He has been a life-long coach in his roles as HR Manager over his career. In other words, he's lived in the "muck" and knows the battles we face every day. I never use a consultant who hasn't lived in the real world. This played out in the questions he prompted the team with, his encouragement, his ability to use real-life examples and then apply them to my organization.
Dave demanded results. Throughout our time together, he continuously armed me with tools to successfully manage complex issues. I could feel my perceived weaknesses becoming leadership strengths with the progression of each session.