What Policy Means for Your Industry—and What You Can Do About It
Give your leaders policy and economic insights they can put to work. Economic and policy strategist Dan Varroney connects interest rates, inflation, workforce conditions, energy and public policy to the decisions facing businesses and industries. Through real-world examples from his books, audiences learn to identify growth barriers, choose shared priorities, find useful partners and turn insight into action, with resources and accountability behind the next step.
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What Policy Means for Your Industry—and What You Can Do About It
Give your leaders policy and economic insights they can put to work. Economic and policy strategist Dan Varroney connects interest rates, inflation, workforce conditions, energy and public policy to the decisions facing businesses and industries. Through real-world examples from his books, audiences learn to identify growth barriers, choose shared priorities, find useful partners and turn insight into action, with resources and accountability behind the next step.
Dan Varroney speaking at EMA.Dan with Rob Underwood, President of EMA.
“Dan helped our leaders think well outside the box about what our industry could accomplish. He connected policy’s impact on our businesses with examples of industries finding common ground, building unexpected partnerships and solving shared problems. His presentation challenged us to look beyond our existing network and consider new ways to shape our industry’s future.”
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See Dan in Action
Dan helps executive audiences turn tariffs, the workforce shortage, and a volatile economy into decisions they can act on, without the political noise.
A conference organizer’s perspective: “Dan delivered one of the most strategically relevant conversations at our conference.” Richard D. Gumbrecht, CEO, Secured Finance Network
Dan Varroney helps corporate meeting planners and trade association leaders bring economic insight to conferences, executive meetings and board retreats. His keynotes connect economic growth, small business and industry competitiveness to the decisions facing your audience.
What history teaches leaders about investment, public policy, and building durable economic growth.
Every major growth era begins with powerful technologies, rising investment, and ambitious expectations. Not every boom delivers lasting prosperity. Dan connects today’s economic signals with lessons from earlier periods of expansion and contraction, helping leaders distinguish durable growth from short-lived momentum.
Three audience takeaways Understand: Distinguish investment that builds lasting productive capacity from short-lived momentum. Evaluate: Assess how borrowing costs, workforce constraints and policy conditions affect your industry’s investment choices. Watch: Identify economic and industry signals worth monitoring before committing capital or changing your growth plans.
How industry leaders can align business, policy, and partnerships around a durable growth agenda.
Industries do not grow through advocacy alone. They grow when companies, trade associations, educators, workforce organizations, financial institutions, researchers, community leaders, regulators, and elected officials work together to remove the barriers holding growth back.
Dan shows leaders how to move beyond transactional advocacy and build an actionable industry ecosystem—one organized around a small number of shared growth priorities and designed to produce results regardless of which party holds power.
Three audience takeaways Understand: Identify the external barriers limiting your industry’s ability to invest, hire and grow. Evaluate: Determine which partners and shared priorities could help address those barriers. Watch: Track changes in workforce capacity, policy and investment conditions to assess whether the industry’s growth agenda needs to adapt.
Four practical levers that enable small businesses to hire, invest, modernize, and expand.
America will not consistently achieve stronger economic growth through one technology, industry, or policy. Growth will come from thousands of small and mid-sized businesses hiring the next employee, purchasing the next machine, modernizing the next facility, and entering the next market.
Dan presents an actionable Small-Business Growth Roadmap built around four reinforcing levers: workforce, regulation, reinvestment, and capital. He explains what business, government, educators, financial institutions, and trade associations can do to help more companies convert opportunity into productive capacity.
Three audience takeaways Understand: Connect workforce, regulation, reinvestment and access to capital to small-business growth. Evaluate: Identify which constraints matter most to the businesses in your industry and the practical choices leaders can make. Watch: Monitor hiring conditions, financing costs and investment signals that affect the next opportunity to expand.
Dan Varroney has effectively outlined the strategic thinking necessary to create a stronger business and policy environment. His work provides an important roadmap for long-term competitiveness and growth.
— Jason K. Blake President, Petroleum Equipment Institute
Dan Varroney is brilliant at reading the economic tea leaves, cutting through the noise and providing a blueprint for realistic and resourceful action. His sophisticated synthesis of economic and political strategy comes at a critical time in the global marketplace. As Dan explains, small business is the key to moving the needle in a modern economy and keeping the momentum going.
— Mark Halperin Editor in Chief, 2WAY; Host, Next Up
I’ve watched Dan Varroney build his consulting business and thought leadership platform over the past decade. He has a rare ability to see what others miss about small business potential. His books prove why he’s become such a trusted voice in the entrepreneurial community.
— Donna Serdula CEO, Vision Board Media
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An organizer’s perspective “Dan delivered one of the most strategically relevant conversations at our conference.” Richard D. Gumbrecht, CEO, Secured Finance Network
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