Daniel J. O'Connor

Daniel J. O’Connor B.Bus, MBA, CPM, FAICD (Dip), AAMI, AIMM,

Daniel is a Management Consultant and Business Coach with 37 years’ experience in innovation. He has been a Company Director of a number of companies, private and public, listed and unlisted, in Australia and overseas.

Daniel has specialised in intellectual property portfolio management and commercialisation, and has expanded to include an on-line global coaching and mentoring program, providing video-based courses, checklists and affordable group coaching help for inventors and R&D teams around the World.

Daniel is the Australian member of the UN Task Force on Innovation and Competitiveness and works with business and government leaders around the World on transferring suitable innovation to developing Countries, where patent-holders “gift” their specific geographic rights for little or no reward.

Daniel has a Bachelor of Business (Marketing) and an MBA (International Business). He has commenced his PhD in International Business (commercialisation modelling) and is a prolific business writer (with more than 20 articles and 2 international books published. Daniel has more than 13,000 LinkedIn members following him and has more than 2,500 members in his special interest group “Kick-Starting Inventions.”