About David Hunnicutt, International LLC

Dr. David Hunnicutt is the former CEO of WELCOA and the Principal of David Hunnicutt, Int’l—a leadership training and consulting company whose mission is to help leaders get the right results in the right way.

Simple, Sensible, Science-Based

With a reputation for being a simplifier and a sense-maker, Dr. Hunnicutt has the proven ability to take difficult and complicated business concepts and make them understandable, useful and impactful.

He is the chief-architect of a number of nationally-recognized leadership, culture-building, and well-being frameworks—including his newest initiative, Great At Work®.

Embraced and adopted by hundreds of CEO’s, senior executives, managers, consultants and boards of directors from Fortune 500’s to smaller, privately held firms, David’s business approaches have helped leaders of all kinds to transform their organizations and change their employee’s lives for the better.

Getting The Right Results, The Right Way™

During his 20-year tenure as CEO of WELCOA, David assembled and led a board of directors that included CEO's and difference-makers from Johnson & Johnson, Arthur Anderson, KPMG, Central States Indemnity, InterMountain Healthcare, South Denver Heart Institute, Morehouse College, Strategic Air-Command, Burson-Marstellar, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Seagate, Sun Life, UNC-Chapel Hill, John Alden Life, Jackson-Kelly, Fortis Health, The Center For Social Responsibility, and the Department of Health and Human Services.

With expert insight from his board, David’s team refined and perfected an operational framework that grew a small, startup company with less than 200 member corporations into a market-leader that had more than 5,000+ by the time David retired.

Through disciplined execution, unswerving accountability, and unfailing customer-service, David’s team successfully delivered 171 consecutive months of net profitability before his departure in mid-2015.

Time-Tested Speaking And Training Leader's Rely On

An exceptional communicator, David has been invited to share his perspectives and approaches with some of the best organizations in the US. Over the last two decades, he has delivered more than 500 keynote addresses to such groups as:

• The United Nations,
• The London Stock Exchange,
• Union Pacific Railroad,
• John Deere,
• Kaiser Permanente,
• Blue Cross Blue Shield,
• General Motors,
• Notre Dame University,
• The National Institutes of Health,
• The CDC,
• The National Chamber of Commerce,
• The Department of the Navy,
• Stanford University,
• ConEdison,
• Johnson & Johnson
• and many, many others.

In addition to live events, David also has a large audience of leaders that regularly participate in his on-demand courses and virtual training.

During his time at WELCOA, David created and delivered more than 12 six-plus hour certification courses which resulted in more than 1,300 leaders, change-agents, and difference-makers achieving professional credentialing.

Content Creation And Publishing

As the founder and former executive editor of WELCOA's business and health publishing line, David understands the power of words that work.

Producing and publishing a wide-variety of well-being and employee performance improvement manuals, newsletters, behavior-change guides, and brochures, this unique undertaking sold millions of copies each year to organizations like Union Pacific Railroad, CALPERS, and The Mayo Clinic Foundation.

From 2004 to 2015, David was also the chief-architect and executive editor of a line of performance enhancement books designed to help employees thrive at work. Collectively, these books sold more than 2 million copies.

• 2001: Self-Care Essentials: A Simple Guide To Managing Your Health And Living Well (With Boyd Abresch)
• 2005: The Culprit and the Cure: Why Lifestyle Is the Culprit Behind America's Poor Health (With Steve Aldana)
• 2013: Culture Clash: How We Win the Battle for Better Health (With Steve Aldana)
• 2012: Stop Stress This Minute (With Jim Porter)
• 2012: Eat Right For Life: On The Go (With Ann Kulze)
• 2012: Fitness That Works: Simple Moves To Make Exercise Happen From 9-5 (With Sean Foy)
• 2013: Eat Right For Life: A Cookbook Companion (With Ann Kulze)
• 2013: The Road To Wellness (With Dr. Luke Seaward)
• 2013: Eat Right For Life: Your Common Sense Guide To Eating Right And Living Well (With Ann Kulze)
• 2013: Weigh Less For Life: 21 Key Strategies For Lasting Weight Loss (With Ann Kulze)
• 2014: Financial Wellness@Work: Key Steps To Managing And Mastering Financial Wellness
• 2014: Walking For Wellness: Four Simple Steps To Achieve Your Best Body And Your Best Life (With Sean Foy)

For their content and quality, these books were recognized by the National Health Information Awards Initiative.

Custom-Coaching & Platform Development 

Each year, David consults with select high-performing CEO's to help them cast their vision, captivate their constituents, and create movement. 

Using a carefully developed, proprietary approach to executive coaching, David works side-by-side with his clients to help them create a bold vision and an aggressive, insanely-detailed strategy to get it done. Then, through co-active coaching, the necessary leadership capabilities are developed and mastered to ensure that all project priorities are successfully executed.

Some of Dr. Hunnicutt’s consulting clients include:

• UHA,
• Hawaii Health@Work Alliance,
• Ollis/Akers/Arney,
• New York City Department of Health
• Cody Regional Health, 
• Tri-County Health Care

Currently, Dr. Hunnicutt is coaching The Dakota Medical Foundation and its subsidiary The High-Impact Institute. Over the last 48 months, David has helped DMF’s CEO to create innovative leadership platforms and training systems--including P5 Performance®, High-Impact Boards® and Leading In Turbulent Times™—all of which are designed to educate business executives and nonprofit CEOs, CDOs and Board Chairs to become better, more effective leaders.

The Great At Work® Leadership Institute

Dr. Hunnicutt’s newest initiative is the Great At Work® Leadership Institute. Designed to help leaders, managers, and employees become more effective at work, the Institute provides state-of-the-art training and customized-coaching opportunities to organizations of all kinds.

Media Coverage

David’s opinions and expertise have appeared in such news services as:

• The Wall Street Journal,
• MSNBC,
• Bloomberg Business Week,
• CBS News,
• Reuters and,
• The Boston Globe.

Personal

Dr. Hunnicutt received degrees from Concordia College, North Dakota State University, and The University of New Mexico.

Prior to becoming the CEO of WELCOA, David was a faculty member at the University of Nebraska and the founder and Managing Director of AHR, Inc.--an entrepreneurial health communications company.

David and his wife Britt enjoy reading, working out, reading, traveling, reading, spending time with friends, and reading.