David Lapin

David Lapin is a corporate advisor and executive coach who guides leaders and organizations to discover the full potential of who they could be. Teaching them self-mastery, leadership acumen, and strategic clarity he helps them become what they should be.

David is the founder of Lapin International, Inc., the US-based strategy and leadership consulting firm that builds value for its clients by strengthening leadership and creating strategic clarity and cultural alignment in complex environments. He is a scholar, speaker, columnist, and author of Lead by Greatness (Avoda Books, 2012).

David’s every engagement is grounded in his humanist philosophy of leadership known as Lead by Greatness™—a blueprint for personal achievement and business growth forged during the turbulent post-Apartheid period in his native South Africa. In collaboration with Nelson Mandela’s government and an assembly of influential business leaders, David drafted one of the world’s first formal codes of corporate ethics. Known as the Code of Ethics for the King Commission on Corporate Governance, it is still in practice today.

From training over 150,000 law enforcement officers (including the Los Angeles Police Department) to build trust through community engagement, to helping a global Real Estate Investment Trust expand its portfolio from $2 billion in one country to $11 billion in 15 countries, to helping a Native American hospitality group grow its revenue by nearly 700% in eight years, he has spent the past two decades deploying his unique approach in some of the world’s most intricate corporate and cultural contexts.

In addition to consulting, David is an internationally-renowned rabbinic leader. He is married with five children and sixteen grandchildren. He lives in Israel and works with clients around the world.