Networking and military transition
We placed the VeteranCrowd Spotlight on Phil Dana, a Navy Veteran recognized as a thought-leader on Networking and Transition.
A family tradition
Philip Dana grew up in a family steeped in Navy tradition. Twenty members of his family have served in the Navy or Marine Corps. Phil’s grandfather was a Marine wounded at the base of Mt. Suribachi during the invasion of Iwo Jima. His father served in both Korea and Vietnam.
Dana grew up in the Philippines and other stations in the Pacific, and spent summers visiting his grandparents in the Pacific Northwest.
Upon graduation from high school, Dana enlisted in the Navy, and served four years as an air crewman. He applied and was accepted to the US Naval Academy at Annapolis. He attended NAPS and became a surface warfare officer upon graduation in 1998.
Dana has always sought entrepreneurial business opportunities, where process improvement and networking tools he has honed over the years could be best applied. Though he never envisioned a career in human resources, it became the natural fit.
HIs military background and exposure to many in the special operations community led him to the Honor Foundation. The Honor Foundation a transition institute created exclusively for the U.S. Special Operations community. Phil served as a VP and “Chief of People Operations.
Hiring veterans is a “natural sidecar” you get with Phil Dana. He is passionate about Navy Football and is a lifelong Seattle Seahawks fan.
And Phil Dana currently serves as the Head of Human Resources for Dendreon, a commercial stage biopharmaceutical company delivering personalized immunotherapy treatments for Stage IV metastasized cancers. Dendreon’s PROVENGE reprograms the body’s own immune cells to detect and attack cancer cells, with little impact to healthy tissue or cells.
A networking thought leader
Phil Dana is a recognised subject matter expert on hiring and networking, and he has sound advice for veterans on transitioning and the do’s and don’ts when building a professional network. He is a beast on LinkedIn, having developed disciplines and strategies that have grown his network with leaders and influencers everywhere.
The Spotlight
We placed Phil Dana in the Spotlight and he shared:
- Secrets of networking
- The art and science of using LinkedIn to become a thought leader
- Advice for transitioning veterans
- The proper way to build relationships, and what advice to ignore
- That 95% of opinions on Resumes are all wrong
- Veteran friendly business and avoiding patronizing
- The importance of mentors, sponsors, and candid feedback
- Executive coaches and the importance of reading
Phil Dana
And you can follow Philip Dana on Linkedin and learn about Dendreon Immunotherapy
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