Daniel Hires

Teaching effective communication/advocacy in the modules “Social Innovation & Change” and “Entrepreneurship”.

Developing local communities in a global network for social entrepreneurship. Facilitating 2-hour innovation workshops of multi-disciplinary participants developing prototype solutions to solve a challenge of a social enterprise. Moderating workshops in Germany, France, India, Spain, Sweden, South Korea, and UK. Organizing and hosting SenseCamp conferences in Berlin and Wiesbaden with guests incl. Nobel laureate Prof. Muhammad Yunus.

Consulting entrepreneurs and organisations who are committed to a better version of the future on innovation, marketing, team & business development. Speaker, workshop facilitator, and startup coach.

Led a team of 5 people to develop a community of green entrepreneurs across 8 Mediterranean/MENA countries, built an online magazine with over 350 entrepreneur portraits, and managed the advocacy efforts to scale the SwitchMed incubation/acceleration program.

Coached 40 future changemakers in eco-innovation and building sustainable business models on a 5-week summer school program traveling to Hamburg, London, and the University of Warwick.

Led a multi-stakeholder team of carbon management experts and behavioral economists collaborating on an EU-funded innovation project to develop business models that leverage CDP's data to promote sustainable consumption. Raised €1.4 million in funding for the continuation of one developed concept.

Co-wrote a book on kickstarting community projects that make sense.

Advising the research program investigating the development of sustainable consumer culture projects to increase awareness and purchasing competence of youth and young adults in educational institutions.

Marketing Manager for the Climate Neutral department, B2B2C product development (natural gas market, car insurance, events), business development for climate neutral products & consulting in Germany

PR/Communications for a global Carbon Asset Management firm. Led the communications campaign for Swiss-German merger.

Restructured and relaunched campus-wide (3 locations) live music concert series "New Beat Happening" to increase revenue and concert size. Established this as a cornerstone format by recruiting, training, and empowering a student volunteer committee to ensure continued operations.

Supported coordination of creative, desktop and media deptartments for client accounts

Awards/Activities: Lloyd Hall Scholars Program, Michigan Association of Communication Studies, University Honors, Delta Epsilon Iota Academic Honor Society, Golden Key International Honour Society