Gina Gardiner & Friends with Bob Danna

BOB DANNA

Bob Danna is a fellow at the Global Curiosity Institute headquartered in Belgium. With more that five decades of leadership experience as a physicist, officer in the U.S. Navy, consulting engineer, and an expert in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Human Capital Management (HCM), his life illustrates the power of curiosity in driving a professional and personal life modeled as a “career lattice.”  

Bob holds bachelor and master degrees in physics and a master degree in engineering. Born in 1951, he experienced, first hand, the revolutionary cultural, social, and technological changes of the 1950s and 1960s, as well as 50 years of professional life starting in the early 1970s to the present. 

He served more than 12 years in the U.S. Navy earning the rank of Lieutenant Commander. Also, he invested approximately two decades during the 1980s and 1990s working as a registered professional engineer and as an expert in information technology. Bob has held senior executive roles in a number of consulting firms and sat on the Board of Directors of both publicly traded and private companies.

In 2005, he joined Josh Bersin, an internationally-recognized expert in Human Capital Management, to help build Bersin & Associates into a global human capital research and analyst firm, finally serving as its EVP and COO prior to its acquisition by Deloitte Consulting at the end of 2012. Bob then served as a managing director in Deloitte’s Human Capital practice for five years before formally retiring from full time employment in 2017. He now serves as a limited partner in a VC firm and a corporate advisor and personal mentor. 

In April 2024, Bob released his memoir, My Curious Life, If my Grandkids Ask About Me, Tell Them This. Kirkus Reviews describes it as “An engaging, curiosity-driven journey from the 1960s to the present.” That could be a description of Bob’s life as well as the book.

Bob lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, with his long term partner, Laci Loew. They are active world travelers and call themselves “event junkies” due to their love of live sports, comedy, music, theater, really anything live. 

www.mycuriouslife.net

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/robert-danna/my-curious-life/