Donal Daly

Donal Daly is CEO of Future Planet, a software company that helps companies on their sustainability journey. In 2005, he founded Altify, his fifth global company, to improve sales performance through software and he is regarded as the catalyst for global advancement in sales transformation. Prior to Altify’s acquisition by Upland Software in October 2019, Donal was Chairman of Altify having founded the company in 2005. Altify was Donal’s fifth global business enterprise. Donal is a sought after speaker and business strategist. An engineer from University College Cork in Ireland, he has split his time over the last 30 years between Europe and the United States, always curious and always learning. His most recent concerns and areas of focus are on the decline in critical thinking in this attention economy and on the danger of the inherent biases in the AI algorithms powering some of the world's largest companies. He is author of numerous books and ebooks including the latest Amazon #1 Bestseller The Customer is the Planet, and his previous Amazon #1 Best-sellers Digital Sales Transformation in a Customer First World, Account Planning in Salesforce and Tomorrow | Today: How AI Impacts How We Work, Live, and Think. His ideas, books, and speeches have inspired people around the world to perform better.