Daisy Dowling is a Senior Advisor of BayPine, focusing on culture, talent, and organizational issues. In addition to leading her own executive coaching and human capital consulting firm, she is a Professor in the Management division at Columbia Business School. Ms. Dowling’s work focuses on enabling individuals and organizations to achieve and sustain top performance.
Previously, Ms. Dowling served as Principal Consultant and head of the U.S. business at Kiddy & Partners, the international human capital consultancy. Prior to Kiddy, she served as Managing Director and the first Global Head of Talent Development for Blackstone. In this position, she created the firm’s leadership development, training, and diversity initiatives; personally coached select rising leaders; developed the firm’s performance analytics methodology; and led initiatives related to Blackstone’s firm-wide culture and employer brand. Earlier in her career, she served as Global Head of Leadership Development for Morgan Stanley; Vice President of the Pine Street senior leadership development team at Goldman Sachs; and Associate, Acquisition Finance at JP Morgan.
Ms. Dowling publishes regularly on leadership-related topics. She is the author of 16 articles in Harvard Business Review magazine, for which she created and wrote a column on CEO-level leadership. Her first book Remember Who You Are (HBR Press, 2004) became an international bestseller and has been published in ten languages, and her most recent book, Workparent (HBR Press, 2021), was featured in the New York Times. Ms. Dowling has also published in the Washington Post, Fast Company, and the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance and she and her work have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Sunday Times (UK), and on National Public Radio.
Ms. Dowling earned her B.A. from Brown University and M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Senior Advisors are third-party advisors and not employees of BayPine; they do not provide exclusive services to BayPine or its portfolio companies