The World's Leading Authority on Human-Centred AI Leadership

Recipient of the 2012 Global HR Excellence Award in Leadership, the 2016 Global Coaching Leadership Award, and voted 2020 Executive Coach of the Year, Marcel Daane is a Professional Certified Coach and one of the world’s leading authorities on human-centred AI leadership.

Since 2010, Marcel has been partnering with organisations, teams, and senior leaders across Asia, North America, and globally — providing leadership assessments, executive coaching, and AI leadership development programs that align human performance with organisational strategy.

As a coach, author, and keynote speaker, Marcel is globally recognised for his unique approach to AI leadership — one that integrates neuroscience, high performance, and human-centred leadership to help executives lead teams and organisations through technological disruption. He is the author of three acclaimed leadership books: HeadStrong Performance, Five Energies of Horrible Bosses, and Leadership Tai Chi.

Marcel is a life-long practitioner of Martial Arts and is the son of a celebrated Political Activist who taught him early on that life has greater meaning when we are of service to others rather than merely to ourselves. In his spare time, Marcel volunteers as a Mental Health & Wellness advocate and he loves to spend quality family time with his wife, Ursula, and Daughter, Kilani.

Marcel holds a post-graduate degree in the Neuroscience of Leadership from Middlesex University an Undergraduate Degree in Complementary Medicine from Charles Sturt University coupled with multiple certifications in Executive Coaching and Sports Performance Coaching

MSc Neuroscience of Leadership
BSc Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Professional Certified Coach
Certified Ontological Coach
Certified Business Coach
Marshall Goldsmith Certified Leadership Coach
Marshall Goldsmith Certified Team Coach
Certified Belbin Team Roles Coach
Life-Long Martial Artist

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“With Marcel's guidance, I've been able to improve my health and fitness while simultaneously have become even more effective in the office than ever before. I feel more at ease and am more able to deal with the challenges of working in a large organization.”

— Joel Krueger

“I use Marcel's mind-body executive coaching methodology to manage the demands and stress of work and still have the energy to enjoy quality time with friends and family at the end of the day. I now promote health-performance throughout my organization and am seeing an improvement in my employees and my company's bottom line.”

— Matthew Beath

“Thank you, Marcel, for the ‘awareness’ coaching sessions which will last for a lifetime. My willingness today is to become the best and truest version of myself..”

— Winda Chevalier

“My experience working with Marcel as an executive and life coach has been fantastic. He is a positive, interested and caring person who got to know me very well in a short period of time. His coaching forced me to broadened my views. It gave me new ideas and a stronger sense of direction”

— Stefan Leijdekkers

“Marcel has an incredible ability to connect with people from the heart and the head. He has been a brilliant executive and life coach to me over the past year and I relied on him to help work through my core values and key areas for my own improvement in leadership and business performance.”

— Ivan Londono

“Marcel's sound executive coaching expertise helped me improve self-awareness to prepare for different situations, take control and gain a personal advantage of the interactions I have in both the work and personal environments. Marcel has interacted with me at the highest professional level possible. This is something that I will carry the rest of my life.”

— Diego Martinez

“Marcel ran a workshop to help bring my team to a new level of high performance focusing on goal setting and understanding each profile to leverage the diversity in the team. It was very valuable and well received by the whole team and I've seen it translate into how they work together.”

— Tara Garson Flower

“Marcel delivers a life-changing message about healthy work-life balance, good nutrition, rest and regular exercise, all leading to an improvement in performance, individually and as a team. A great way to bring about real, positive, and productive change.”

— Colin Samplson

“Marcel drove home the connection between a healthy mind and a healthy body to the participants of our regional leadership conference. Participants learned to increase mental well-being and perform more effectively in their leadership roles.”

— Michael Braun