A co-founder, Daryl works at the nexus of leadership, culture, and strategy to advise top leaders and leadership teams of some of the most globally recognized and innovative game orgs. His client service over the past two decades has enabled him to advance the leadership of iconic game franchises as well as to collaborate with game teams to help launch exciting new IP. In addition to cultivating long-term advising relationships, Daryl invests in designing high-impact game org and team diagnostics that generate distinctive insights on behalf of informing successful and sustainable game development.
Daryl enjoys working with gaming leaders across a broad spectrum of common inflection points within the industry, including starting up new studios, kicking off new games, scaling game teams, imagining (and re-imagining) studio culture, navigating successful post-M&A integrations, designing impactful processes, optimizing leadership transitions, building leadership capacity, and planning for succession, among other many defining situations.
Daryl is a founding partner of Kenning Associates LLP, a leadership development consultancy, where he has served the leadership of Fortune 500 companies and major professional services firms. A former faculty member at Georgia Tech, Daryl is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Occidental College and has a Ph.D. from the University of Washington. He completed his graduate training at Cambridge University during a two-year Graduate Research Fellowship.
