Dave Eaton


Managing Principal
The Eaton Group, LLC

Dave's focus addresses the human side of any culture change or business transaction, while the company works to ensure efficient and effective execution and sustainability of desired change. This is often achieved thru cultural integration and individual and team performance, which can have a direct impact on bottom-line results.

He has worked with clients across a broad range of industries in more than 50 countries globally, facilitating some 750 workshops and top team alignment sessions, in complex transformation events including M&A/JV, globalization, spin-offs/carve-outs, and other major business transformations.

In 1993, Dave founded Eaton Consulting Group, later rebranded as Aperian Global, the world's largest, privately-held, cross-cultural training, consulting, webtools company, where he held the position of founder/owner/practice leader through 2009.

Since 2010, Dave was a Senior Partner with Korn Ferry, where he held the position of Global Practice Leader – Culture Transformation.

In 2017, he joined The Clarion Group, Ltd. as a Partner and Practice Leader, working across multiple industries on Culture Transformation, Top-Team Alignment and Executive Coaching.

Most recently, Dave was a Principal and Practice Leader for FMG Leading, LLC, a human capital advisory firm where he led the Culture practice, while continuing to do Top Teams work as well as Executive Coaching.

Academic and Professional background

Dave has a master’s degree in intercultural management from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

He is a member of, and speaker at, a wide array of professional associations in human resources (SHRM, ATD, HCI, HRLF), and other industry conferences (Conference Board, NASSCOM, and Project Management Institute). He has been a guest lecturer at major business schools and universities, including Northeastern University, Boston College, Boston University, Emory, and Babson College.

“Maybe the journey isn’t so much about becoming anything. Maybe it’s about un-becoming everything that isn’t really you, so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place.”

— Paulo Coelho