Daniel Ziegler

Background

About Daniel Ziegler

Dan Ziegler is an ideal-driven, growth-oriented leader, speaker, and teacher who has served for over 25 years at the helm of a variety of mission-driven non-profits, including a Mennonite Bible college, a youth camp, a humanitarian NGO in Haiti, and church-related multi-faceted camp/conference centers in MN and PA. Dan has advanced degrees in Organizational Leadership, and Management, and extensive training and expertise in strategic planning, youth camping, higher education, and experiential outdoor education. He has also been active in the Mennonite faith community as a speaker, consultant, and church leader. Dan is also an accomplished visionary and fundraiser. As college president and retreat center CEO, he has been involved in raising more than $10 million in gifts, doubling the average annual donor income of a number of the institutions he has served, and successfully soliciting gifts of up to seven figures. Throughout his career Dan has spearheaded both the vision and execution of numerous major strategic initiatives, capital campaigns, and annual fund initiatives in camp, church and educational settings. Specialties: Strategic planning, non-profit executive leadership, higher education administration, program development, marketing, public relations, fundraising, young adult development, summer camp/retreat center direction, outdoor education, international mission/relief administration, Anabaptist theology.