“My professional mission is to help leaders go fast by gaining the right mindset to be successful. Each organization has a different culture and unlocking the secret to success is a challenge. It is energizing and rewarding to help guide the process.”

Dennis Alimena

consultant

Dennis Alimena brings to his work guiding leaders in transformational culture change 29 years of business experience in start-ups, sales, culture shaping, organizational development, ERP execution, training, coaching and consulting positions. He has a personal mission of making a difference through leadership and relationship building.

Dennis was a vice president and senior consultant with Senn Delaney for 12 years until 2006, then rejoined the consulting team in 2011. With 15 years of experience in the international arena, Dennis has been instrumental in shaping, delivering and coaching worldwide leadership programs that impacted merging cultures, leadership development and strategic execution.

Early in his career, Dennis co-founded his own consulting firm focusing on teambuilding, communication and trust issues. His company was also involved in joint ventures in health care and marketing cardiovascular stress-testing programs. He has since worked with the boards of directors at Fortune 500 companies, trained facilitators to teach leadership for their executives, and has been recognized for his seminars on change and vision. Dennis has been recognized with a Congressional Leadership Award for his commitment to leadership and business growth.

He authored the book The Winning Mindset for Leadership: Unlocking your Potential in Business, Sports and Life and founded CreativQuest, LLC, a leadership and culture formation firm that works with Fortune 500 clients to shape the leadership and culture needed to align their strategy, structure, technology and human capital.

Recently, Dennis worked as a leadership consultant at the Kalamazoo, Michigan office of Phadia AB, a medical device company, to build a high-performance leadership team targeting an astronomical growth rate in challenging times. He has also done executive coaching at MACH, the leading provider of hub-based mobile communications exchange solutions, to help executives in London, Luxembourg and India to determine what opportunities to pursue with limited resources in a fast-growth business.

Dennis received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Grove City College and a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology from California University of Pennsylvania. He also holds a Ph.D. from Temple University in Psycho-Educational Processes (the study of group dynamics).

Dennis is married to Diane Bradley and they live in Doylestown, PA, near Philadelphia. They have three grown children. Dennis and Diane love the Pacific Northwest and have a second home in Bend, Oregon, where they enjoy fly fishing, skiing and hiking.