Aaron McDaniel

Aaron McDaniel is an international business expansion expert, an entrepreneur, teacher, author, corporate manager and speaker. Aaron is the co-author of The Wall Street Journal and National Bestseller, Global Class, a playbook for how to build a global company, developed through interviewing more than 300 executives from 50+ countries who have scaled the world’s fastest-growing companies.

Aaron is currently a faculty member at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business (where he is also an alumnus) and managing partner of Global Class, an international consulting firm that helps scale-ups and publicly traded companies successfully expand into new international markets.

Aaron began his corporate career at AT&T, as part of its flagship Leadership Development Program and was an AT&T Diamond Club honoree, being part of the Top 1% of sales managers worldwide (out of an organization of 10,000+), after which he became a serial entrepreneur founding 3 companies that were acquired.

Aaron has been featured in numerous media outlets including Forbes, The Financial Times, Inc., Entrepreneur, and Bloomberg BusinessWeek, and is trusted by top companies including Microsoft, the Ritz-Carlton, Deloitte, Wells Fargo, and UnitedHealth Group. He is the chairman of the board of Create the Change, a non-profit helping build the next generation of changemakers through youth volunteerism, and is also a member of The College Board’s National Advisory Board Member for AP Business Principles.