Dr. David Castain is a serial entrepreneur, world traveler, life & work coach, philanthropist, and scholar who is a member of the Forbes List, Entrepreneur Leadership Network. . Further highlighting his expertise, Dr. Castain was a member of the Rolling Stone Culture Council, and the Newsweek Expert Forum.

Dr. Castain is also the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of David Castain And Associates, a conceptual marketing firm that leverages the principles of psychology to address the issues involved in the growth of a business.

He’s flown more than 18 times around the globe to 58 countries to examine and reconstruct the international marketing techniques used in demographic segmentation. With clients like Berkshire Hathaway’s Cort Furniture, Uber, Chipotle and BET Networks.

David holds a Bachelor’s from Howard University in communications, a Master’s from Georgetown University in public relations and corporate communications, and a Ph.D. in business psychology at The Chicago School.

Committed to giving back to the community, he created the David Castain Foundation, a nonprofit organization geared towards changing the future of the youth and young adults in at-risk situations who may not otherwise possess the necessary tools and resources to achieve success.

He also created David Castain Destinations; a traveling platform that provides insight, and preparation for exhilarating experiences across the globe.

With his guidance, planning and leveraging of resources traveling can become anyone’s reality. He has charmed king cobras in Sri Lanka, danced with lions in Argentina, laid with tigers in Thailand, driven tanks in Budapest, ran with wild kangaroos in Australia, trekked the jungles of Costa Rica, ridden camels across the deserts of Qatar and watched sunsets in the Maldives.

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