Built from the inside out.

David Shafer, LLC is a boutique consulting firm specializing in K-12 education, technology, financial services, media and broadcast, and professional services built on a proven process developed from decades of building businesses, creating go-to-market systems, developing sales organizations, expanding markets, and translating strategy into measurable revenue growth.

DS, LLC is particularly strong in situations requiring a leadership that moves between strategy and execution — business emergence, growth-stage scaling, turnaround or transformation, new-market entry, revenue optimization, and culture-building.

Founded by David Shafer, whose successes include co-founding Frontline Education, which revolutionized K-12 workforce management and sold in 2022 for $3.7 billion, co-founding the aerial robotic camera business that became Skycam — a two-time Academy Award-winning, six-time Emmy Award-winning company — and Sabadell United Bank, which sold in 2017 for $1.025 billion, our clients receive personal and real-life experience while being guided through his proven Playbook.

Through DavidShafer, LLC, selected clients gain advising or direct leadership to either advance rapidly or course correct immediately using a distinctive approach and playbook developed through direct entrepreneurial and operating experience.