John Daley, MIB

CEO/Managing Principal

John Daley is the founding partner at the Daley Group, LLC.  John is known for being an expert on developing leadership teams that lead to increased sales. He has successfully worked with CEO's and their executive teams in over 70 businesses for the last 15 years in various high tech, IT, medical and life sciences companies. John is a proven organizational development professional. He started his first successful business at the age of 19 and went on to start 3 more successful businesses. 

John spent over 35 years building leadership, sales and marketing teams around the world with companies like Sigma Aldrich, Marquette/GE, Puritan Bennett and Alcon Surgical. John has started four successful companies in his career. He is a speaker, author, instructor, and advisor to business leaders globally.  

 John has a BS in Marketing from Arizona State University and a Masters of International Business from St. Louis University. He has served on the St Louis St Patrick's Day parade committee, Rotary, St Louis Regional ALS board and the Saint Louis University MIB advisory board. John also serves as Vice Chairman of the YMCA of the Ozarks board.

John is a certified Soccer Coach and played soccer into his 40's.

John and his wife Kathy have been married for over 30 years and have four outstanding adult sons.

“John is an excellent leader and a fantastic sales trainer. Working cross functionally at Sigma-Aldrich, and leading his own team of training professionals John built a solid training program for my sales team that greatly improved results.”

Bob Gilot, Vice President Institutions at Novo Nordisk

 “When it comes to developing an effective business plan set on a solid financial foundation; John gets it. I have worked with John on several different occasions and have found his practices to be enlightening and motivating. I would recommend him to any business that wants to improve its standing in the marketplace..”

​ Stephen Lake, Continental Research Corporation​


​ “I've known John for almost four years now and consider him to be one of the best minds in O.D. (organizational development) there are today. John brings the thought-leadership, processes, and experience to the planning, training, and implementation environment that companies need to be customer focused and opportunity-agile in a global marketplace.” 

 Robert R. Heuermann Jr., M.B.A., Executive Director, World Trade Center Saint Louis