Executive Coaching
A hands-on partnership approach that moves senior leaders from intention to result, working on judgement and presence rather than technique alone.
About The 1750 Group
Executive coaching, leadership development, and organizational transformation, delivered to leaders who intend to build something that outlasts them.
30+
Years of practice
25,000+
Trained in the room
8+
Countries reached
545+
Leaders coached
Our Story
The 1750 Group and Daniel Houston & Associates are the dreams Dan Houston ushered into reality.
As a trained executive and leadership coach and an experienced consultant, Dan has spent more than thirty years building a national and international consulting practice, one engagement at a time.
That work has run from corporate boardrooms across North America to development programs in Europe, Japan, Russia, and South Africa. Different rooms, different languages, the same question underneath: what kind of organization are we actually building.
Our Principal
Founder and Principal Consultant
Dan Houston is President of The 1750 Group, Inc. and a John Maxwell Team certified leadership coach with more than thirty years of experience coaching and training leaders and employees from diverse backgrounds.
Since 2015 he has trained with John Maxwell on leadership and personal development, and he is a founding member of the John Maxwell Team. His work covers executive and leadership coaching, cultural competence, change management, communication strategy, team building, and emotional intelligence for leaders.
He has consulted with major organizations on leadership style assessment across North America and beyond, and he writes and speaks on what leadership actually costs the people carrying it.
Dan is sensitive, with a concise understanding of complex human dynamics such as poverty, racism, and prejudice. We benefited from his probing for deeper thinking and easy style.
Chris Ahearn, Former CEO, Our Towns Habitat for Humanity
What We Do
One philosophy, applied at whatever scale the work requires.
A hands-on partnership approach that moves senior leaders from intention to result, working on judgement and presence rather than technique alone.
Programs built for rooms, not slides. Our trainers connect with genuinely diverse audiences, which is why the work travels as well as it does.
Transformational conversations that build inclusive cultures and equitable workplaces, handled with candour rather than compliance language.
Global Reach
Training assignments across four continents, and the perspective that comes from having to make the same ideas land in very different rooms.
Published Works
Confessions of a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Consultant
2026
What leaders need to know to create a sense of belonging within their teams.
A Better World
Co-authored · 2014
A collaborative volume on leadership, contribution, and the work of building something better than we found.
Trusted By
Whether you are developing one leader or reshaping how an entire organization behaves, the work starts the same way. With a conversation.