Summary
Danius Williams is a strategic operations leader and Deputy Chief of Staff with nine years of cross-sector experience driving transformation in government, nonprofit, and corporate settings. He blends a data-scientist’s rigor—rooted in hypothesis testing and design of experiments—with hands-on change leadership to deliver operational excellence and product-focused agile transformations. Danius has led enterprise Lean Six Sigma and Toyota Way deployments, founded and scaled mission-driven organizations, and advised public agencies on equitable, creative solutions. Comfortable shifting between boardroom strategy and frontline process mapping, he excels at marrying UX-minded design thinking with measurable performance improvements. Based in Seattle and pursuing an MBA in Operational Excellence at Ohio State, he’s equally at home coaching community partners as he is optimizing complex municipal programs. A subtle throughline in his career is a curiosity-driven approach to problem framing that uncovers high-impact, often nonobvious levers for change.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA (in progress) Operational Excellence , Master of Business Administration - MBA (in progress) Operational Excellence at The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business
Bachelor's degree Political Science with a concentration in Economics , Bachelor's degree Political Science with a concentration in Economics at The Ohio State University
English, Spanish