People-Centric Skills: Interpersonal and Communication Skills for Auditors and Business Professionals

About the Authors

Danny M. Goldberg is the founder of GOLDSRD (www.GOLDSRD.com), a leading provider of Staff Augmentation, Executive Recruiting, and Professional Development services. Previously, Danny led the Professional Development and Executive Recruiting Practices at Sunera. Mr. Goldberg re-purchased his practice that he sold to Sunera in 2011. Prior to joining Sunera in January 2011, Danny founded SOFT GRC, an advisory services and professional development firm. Danny has over 16 years of audit experience, including five as a CAE/audit director at two diverse companies. The Professional Development Practice at GOLDSRD has over 100 full-day courses available for clients that can be customized. These courses include topical matters on Internal Audit, Audit, Finance, and People-Centric (Soft Skills).

Prior to founding SOFT GRC, Danny was the director of SOX Compliance and Corporate Audit at Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, where he led the Year One SOX Compliance efforts and assisted in building both departments. Prior to his tenure at Dr. Pepper, Danny was Chief Audit Executive at Tyler Technologies, a publicly traded technology company (Danny was hired to build the department from the ground up).

Danny has served on the audit committee of the Dallas Independent School District and was the chairman of the North Texas Leadership Council of the American Lung Association in 2012. Danny is also the IIA Dallas and Fort Worth Chapter Programs Committee co-chairman for the 2012–2013 ...