Dan has worked as consultant and trainer for numerous companies including KPMG Peat Marwick, Dow, Ernst and Young, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Andersen Consulting, McKesson, Pacific Bell, Roche, Bank of America, Cadence, McCombs School of Business at UT, Remax, Tax Executives Institute, MGM Mirage, TORK/SCA, Clarke Mosquito Control, Sprouse Shrader Smith PLLC, Charles Schwab, FleishmanHillard, Cisco, and five different Cirque du Soleil productions. Dan is currently partnering with Game On Nation and teaching at the Joint Special Operations Command.

He is also a trainer for Koppett and the Agility Group.

Dan has taught at Duke, Pepperdine, UCLA Extension and the Writing-by-the-Sea program at UCSB. He was an adjunct professor for USC’s BFA program, the MBA Program for the University of Texas McCombs School of Business, the Applied Improvisation Network World Conference in Southern California, the Global Improv Initiative at the University of Irvine in 2017, and at Middlesex University, London, 2019.

He co-created with Stephen Kearin, The Living Story Board for Dreamworks and Disney Animation, which is a unique, real-time writing and improvisation method of writers and animators working together to explore narrative.

He has written and directed industrial films for Stanford Health and SCA/TORK.