Dave Kline

Become the Leader You’d Follow | Founder @ MGMT | Coach | Advisor | Speaker | Trusted by 250K+ leaders.

Hey, I’m Dave Kline.

I teach leaders how to build All-Star teams and level up their careers.

After decades of leading in pretty intense environments, from Bridgewater Associates to Moody’s Analytics, I know what it takes to be the manager your team remembers (for the right reasons).

Why I can help you is simple:

I’ve been through it.

And to prove it, here’s my background (by the numbers) ⤵️

2: Decades leading high-impact teams in asset management (Bridgewater), consulting (PwC), & financial services (Moody’s Analytics).

4: Years as an entrepreneur. My portfolio includes Skillscouter (an online course & career site), and MGMT Accelerator (a cohort-based management training course).

14: Cohorts of early-career leaders that I’ve taught at multiple companies.

100: Managers I recruited, onboarded & mentored at Bridgewater Associates.

1,000: Performance evaluations with grace and respect for stars and terminations alike.

205,000+: My community across LinkedIn & Twitter interested in management tactics & leadership lessons

385,000,000: My team’s top revenue year at Moody’s.

Now that we’ve covered the why, here’s the how:

- The MGMT Accelerator – an intensive management training course for both new and senior leaders
- MGMT Fundamentals – a course that covers all the need-to-know management basics for rookie leaders
- The MGMT Playbook – a weekly newsletter that gives practical management insights

Through our MGMT courses, my wife Marsden and I have played the assist with over 1,100 leaders so far, who’ve now learned how to:

- Practically tackle the most common leadership challenges
- Build their Management OS’s CODE (Coach, Operate, Delegate, Engage)
- Refine their individual leadership Decision-Making System

With our 30+ years of combined experience, you won’t just get our knowledge.

You’ll get to ask us questions directly and get access to coaching that’s more tailored to your own experience.

We always say – if we could do it like a dinner party, we would.

If you’re interested in leadership advice (that doesn’t just sound nice but actually works), drop me a follow – I post daily.

And if you like what you see, our MGMT courses could be just what you need to level up.

DM me if you’re interested.

Co-Founder

We created the MGMT Accelerator to help managers rapidly develop into trusted leaders by combining the art & science of management. 

This 4-week program consistents of eight 90-minute modules where I share the tactics I learned leading high-performing teams for 25 years. During each session, we tailor those insights together to build your personalized management system together. 

You'll learn alongside ~50 peers and become part of an expert community of more than 300 alums.

The soft skills are sometimes the hardest.

Which is why they're so valuable.

Think about the best person you worked with.
- The one who quietly set the standard.
- The one who made everyone else better. 
- The one you'd want to bring with you.

What made them stand out?

Yes, they were good at their job. 
But there was something more.

It was how they showed up. 

4 Underrated Career Skills:

1. Raise the Energy of the Room
→ Make others feel more capable, not less
→ Add enthusiasm when it's absent
→ Choose optimism

2. Be Enjoyable to Work With
→ Create calm in chaos
→ Blend excellence with enjoyment
→ Become everyone's "go-to" resource

3. Keep Your Commitments
→ Replace "I'll try" with "I will"
→ Build trust through reliable delivery 
→ Promise carefully, deliver consistently

4. Lead Regardless of Title
→ Tackle the problems others avoid
→ Take initiative before it's obvious
→ Make decisions that prioritize progress

The truth about these skills:

They're 100% your choice.
Only 1% do all 4.

And that's your opportunity.

Simple ≠ Easy
That's why it works.

And yes, AI is changing everything. 
Including making these skills more valuable.

⬇️ Which skill has helped your career most?

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Your team doesn't need you to have all the answers,

As long as you ask the right questions. 

Here are 20 questions that:

- Uncover meaningful problems
- Unlock the team's potential
- Unleash breakthrough results

And what you should listen for...

THE WORK (And How Work Gets Done)

1. What does excellence look like?
2. How do we measure success?
3. Name our three critical priorities.
4. Where do you get blocked?
5. Which processes feel unnecessary?

What to listen for:
Can they define exceptional work with specificity? 
Do they know what truly matters versus what's just noise? 
Will they challenge inefficient processes? 

Great teams have clarity and the courage to stay focused.

ENGAGEMENT (What Drives People)

6. What energizes you most?
7. How do you prefer feedback?
8. What skills do you want to build?
9. When were you most proud?
10. Where do you want to be in one year?

What to listen for:
Where does their natural energy flow? 
Do they invite improvement or avoid it? 
Are they driving their own development with purpose? 

Great teams have energy and raise everyone else's.

ALIGNMENT (Staying Connected)

11. How does your work impact our mission?
12. What's our biggest opportunity?
13. Where do you see team friction?
14. What information would help you?
15. What should we stop doing?

What to listen for:
Do they see their strategic value beyond their task list? 
Can they spot future wins and surface hard truths? 
Will they challenge the status quo? 

Great teams have a shared mission and the systems to compound.

MOMENTUM (Progress & Patterns)

16. What's our best improvement this quarter?
17. Where are we falling behind?
18. What problems keep returning?
19. Which changes worked best?
20. "What one change would help most?

What to listen for:
Do they build on wins or just move to the next thing? 
Will they flag real risks honestly? 
Can they spot systemic issues versus one-off problems? 

Great teams have direction and an unstoppable desire to improve.

Remember:

The secret isn't in asking the questions.
It's listening deeply to what follows.

Great questions reveal the truth.
Great leaders do something about it.

Helpful?

🔔 Follow us (Dave Kline and Marsden Kline) for more.
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The 20 Question to Lead Your Team

Aazar Ali Shad

The Performers

Paid social mastermind group where you'll find answers to the most challenging questions that no one else could help you with.

Gain access to the network of media buyers you've always craved, and uncover the secrets of the digital advertising elite.

Founder

Shad Venture UG

Providing growth marketing consultancy and advisory services with:

- Paid Social
- Paid Search


Current & old clients: The Perfect Jean, Hello Fresh, Science&Humans, Moonbird, Curious Cardinals, Synthesis, Kinedu, Plei App and more.

Paid Social Ads & Creative Strategist Consultant

Synthesis

Weekly, 1-hour simulations that fuel innovative thinking and challenge kids to collaborate in complex environments.
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Join our community to get early access:
https://www.synthesis.is/

Growth Marketing Lead

Userpilot

Growth Advisor

Userpilot helps product teams deliver personalized in-app experiences to increase growth metrics at every stage of the user journey.

Head of Growth

Growth Marketing Stories

Growth Marketing Stories is a podcast for marketers & founders who are in the messy middle. 

It's raw. It's actionable. It's honest.

Growth Marketing Stories Podcast will:
- Inspire you to become better version 
- Share mental models and frameworks to apply
- Discuss Lessons & mistakes so you improve
- Go deep more than just tips and tactics
- Focus on strategy, flywheels and mindset

Some of our guests were: April Dunford, Amanda Natividad, Rand Fishkin, Peep Laja, Andrew Capland, Harry Dry and more.

Some of the brands these marketers are from: CXL, Buffer, Google, Groove, Obvi, Wistia, Postscript, Careem, Panda Doc, Animalz, Airtable, Truebill and more.

Proudly sponsored by: Growth Mentor and Ahrefs

Podcast Host

VITALS

Vitals is a single lightweight shopify app that generates sales and replaces 40+ commonly used apps.

The app will help you with:
- Increase conversions
- Boost revenue
- Build more trust
- Improve stores' user experience

ECOMPLY.io

ECOMPLY.io offers a SaaS privacy management system in compliance with the GDPR.

We provide a GDPR solution for the Records of Processing Activities, DPIA, Vendor Risk Management, Data Subject Rights, and the GDPR Audit. 

Get in touch with us at contact@ecomply.io

Cofounder & CMO

Accredible

Accredible is a Certificate Management System designed to make the entire certification pipeline easier and cheaper. Issue the most advanced digital certificates in the world, update and revoke live certificates and view analytics on how your recipients use them.

Sales & Growth Manager

Lieferoo UG

Lieferoo is a community of trusted travelers & senders. We facilitate express & normal delivery of items which you are unable to send through traditional courier system. We help you send stuff along with the travelers who are going in the same direction anyway.

We are exploiting existing transportation of people traveling via cars, trains & buses. You can request a traveler to deliver an (awkward) item/s – things like furniture, bikes, Ski or Snowboard equipment etc. for you (Obviously if it aligns with their travel plan)

matchinguu UG

AdTech Company Providing Programmatic Mobile Push Sales & Marketing Infrastructure.
Helping apps and advertisers to activate, engage, grow and monetize their existing user base and new target groups.

Strategy Business Development Manager

Grown several tech companies from 0 to 8 figures I Paid Social Growth Marketer I I deconstruct paid marketing so you can level up.

After 5 years in sales, I moved to marketing.

Frankly, I love it. I learned marketing by starting 2 startups and side hustles. 

Then, I found my Ikagai: Growth Marketing. I became Head of Growth at Userpilot (Grew it to 7-figures and beyond). And then, I moved to become an advisor.

Now, I have grown several tech/SaaS companies from 0 to 8 figures. Currently, I lead paid social and growth initiatives at 3 different D2C tech companies. 


❇️ Paid Growth Marketing Newsletter:
Get smarter about paid growth marketing in 5 minutes. I analyze the best brands on paid social to give you insights to level up your marketing: https://theperformers.beehiiv.com/subscribe

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❇️ Podcast: Growth Marketing Stories
I deconstruct how companies grow with marketing and share learnings along the way. Folks from Wistia, Postscript, Buffer, Truebill, Airtable, Oribi, Attentive, PandaDoc, Baremetrics, CXL, and many others have joined. Give it a listen here: https://pod.co/growth-marketing-stories/

Thank you for visiting my profile. Feel free to reach out at aazar@aazarshad.com.

Growth Marketing Consultant

Providing growth marketing consultancy and advisory services with:

- Paid Social
- Paid Search
- Content Marketing & SEO
- Conversion Rate Optimization

Invested in: Maven, Gumroad, Vuvei Ventures, Synthesis, Userpilot, Breshna and more.

Current clients: MakerKids and Prequel.

Dear Internet, steal my ugly ads with pride.

Scaling Brands from $1Mn to $10Mn with Meta Ads — Ads Nerd — I Create Un-Ignorable Ads To Reduce CAC

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