Specialty: Managing long-term communications campaigns; managing speechwriting and other executive communications relationships; Communications training.

Fields most served: Technology, pharmaceuticals, finance, management consulting, extensive work in Europe as well as US.

Interview:

Q: How do you describe what you do at WHWG?
Casse: I advise executives at large corporations on business strategy and communications.

Q: What is most satisfying about your work for your clients?
Casse: Doing something that, for a variety of reasons, I know they can’t do on their own.

Q: What are your clients are looking for from you?
Casse: My clients want me to offer them another way of looking at their world — and help them get it done.

Q: What skill or knowledge or experience has helped you most in your work at WHWG?
Casse: Working with multiple clients across many industries makes it easier to enter each new company.

Bio:   For more than eight years, Daniel Casse has been a senior director of the White House Writers Group, a strategy and communications firm that specializes in speechwriting, message development, and thought leadership for public companies.

He has been an advisor to chief executives and senior officers of the world’s largest and most influential companies. He has prepared speeches and presentations for speakers at the National Press Club, Harvard University, the World Economic Forum in Davos, and numerous industry conferences and analyst meetings. He has written well over 200 speeches, white papers, annual reports, and opinion articles for clients on topics as diverse as financial services, innovation, competition policy, retail strategy, the future of health care, corporate governance, business leadership, and intellectual property protection. His articles drafted for clients have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the Washington Post, USA Today, the Harvard Business Review, and Foreign Affairs.

Daniel’s work also includes training and internal communications planning. He has frequently conducted full-day seminars for senior staff and corporate officers on how to write and present ideas clearly and how to organize and prepare presentations. He is often asked to help plan and oversee internal meetings and strategy sessions. Additionally, he regularly assembles chief executives, economists, journalists, and industry experts to participate in debates and roundtable discussions in New York, London, Brussels, and Berlin.

A former managing editor of The Public Interest magazine in New York, his writing on politics and policy has appeared frequently in The Wall Street Journal, Commentary, and other national publications.

In addition to his writing, Daniel is an accomplished public speaker. He is a guest lecturer before graduate and undergraduate classes at Harvard, Princeton, Vanderbilt, New York, and American Universities. As a graduate student at Harvard, he was a teaching fellow for the required undergraduate course in Moral Reasoning. From 1990 to 1995 he was a docent at the National Gallery of Art, giving lectures on art from 1300 to the modern era.

Daniel Casse was educated at the University of Toronto, where he studied political philosophy, and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, where he received a Masters in Public Administration. Born in Canada, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1993. Today he lives with his wife and their two children in Asheville, North Carolina.