About John Vitali

John Vitali, Principal at Daval Consulting, is a seasoned and accomplished financial and operational leader having worked for the past 47+ years at organizations of varied sizes in the nonprofit and higher education sectors. During the latter half of his career he held senior executive positions at several large complex institutions.

Daval Consulting provides services to colleges, universities, and nonprofit organizations focusing on strengthening their financial and business operations in support of institutional mission. From serving as an interim CFO to diagnosing and remediating a particular operational issue, Daval tailors the scope of its services to each client’s unique needs.

The firm’s services include interim financial and administrative executive leadership; business diagnostics and re-engineering; and high impact, high profile project management.

Particularly for nonprofit organizations, Daval also offers interim CEO and Executive Director leadership support during periods of transition.

On the finance and operations side, John excels at advancing an organization’s mission through team building and data-driven strategic business modeling, helping to build greater financial sustainability in a high-performance culture.

As an interim CEO or ED John can offer your Board an objective perspective, stability, wisdom, candor, and expertise drawn from deep and wide prior executive leadership experiences and success as an interim CEO/ED now and during his long and successful career.

John effectively and genuinely collaborates with colleagues at all levels – from trustees and faculty to staff, managers, external partners, and consumers.

One hallmark of his leadership style is a strong commitment to diversity while he nurtures future organizational leaders through mentoring, delegating, and promoting.

His work will advance the mission of your organization through his executive leadership skills and by partnering to envision, shape, promote, and implement new and better ways of operating.

Finally, during his career John cultivated professional relationships with a wide range of operational, technical, and systems experts. For projects requiring a particularly comprehensive solution, he can leverage that expertise on your behalf.