In this podcast episode Dan Purvis, CEO and co-founder of Velentium, shares his experience of building 30,000 ventilators in just 28 days during the COVID-19 pandemic. He emphasizes the importance of taking risks and volunteering oneself in times of crisis, and the significance of having a strong company culture that puts people and results before profit. Dan's book, "28 Days to Save the World: Crafting Your Culture to Be Ready for Anything," provides insights on how to build a resilient company culture.

Dan also discusses the importance of practicing culture in a company, rather than just having it as a set of values on a website or conference room wall. He emphasizes the importance of principles-based leadership and creating a "you decide" culture, where employees are empowered to make decisions based on the company's principles and values. Dan encourages listeners to pursue simplicity in their lives, and to ask themselves if they have reached it. If not, then they need to simplify their lives.

Dan Purvis is the CEO and co-founder of Velentium, a professional engineering firm that specializes in the design and manufacturing of therapeutic and diagnostic active medical devices. A serial entrepreneur and the founder of six companies, Dan has fulfilled his dream of building a company that puts culture before function, results before profit. “Improving lives for a better world” is more than a slogan; it means Velentium’s staff doing meaningful work on clients' behalf so they can bring life-changing products to market. By building a company that talented people want to work for and other companies want to work with, Dan has led Velentium to become a world-class engineering firm averaging 50% year-over-year growth.

Dan has more than 25 years of experience in software, electronics, test systems, and medical devices. He earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University and a Jones Scholar MBA from the Jones School of Business at Rice University. He is the coauthor of 28 Days to Save the World: Crafting Your Culture to be Ready for Anything.

You can connect with Dan via Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/velentium

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