Daniel Yankelovich bio
Daniel Yankelovich is Founder and Chairman of three organizations:
* Viewpoint Learning Inc. (a firm that advances dialogue-based learning as a core skill in newer forms of leadership),
* DYG, Inc. (a market research firm tracking social trends), and
* Public Agenda (a public education not-for-profit) co-founded with Cyrus Vance in 1975.
His career can be roughly mapped by decades. In the 1960s he founded and developed the well-known market research firm of Yankelovich, Skelly and White (now Yankelovich Partners). In the 1970s he initiated the New York Times/Yankelovich poll and founded the Public Agenda — a non-partisan not-for-profit public policy research organization. In the 1980s he founded DYG Inc., a firm that tracks social and market trends. After moving to California in the 1990s, he founded his newest firm, Viewpoint Learning, which helps organizations internalize and apply new forms of knowledge and dialogue-based learning.
He is a long-standing member of the Council on Foreign Relations, where he served on the membership committee. He has contributed several articles to Foreign Affairs. He is also a Special Advisor to the Aspen Institute.
He has served on many corporate boards. He is director emeritus of CBS, US West, the Meredith Corporation, Diversified Energies, and ARKLA as well as trustee emeritus and former Chairman of the Educational Testing Service (ETS). He is also trustee of the Kettering Foundation and the Fund for the City of New York.
On the academic side, he has held affiliations with Harvard (his alma mater), NYU, the New School for Social Research, UC Irvine and UC San Diego.
He is the author of eleven books, including Coming to Public Judgment: Making Democracy Work in a Complex World and The Magic of Dialogue: Transforming Conflict into Cooperation (which was awarded the 1999 Common Ground Book Award for Achievement in Conflict Resolution). His latest book, Profit With Honor: The New Stage of Market Capitalism, will be published by Yale University Press in April 2006.
