Daniel Langenthal
Director of Leadership Development and Implementation
Daniel Langenthal is the Director of Leadership Development and Implementation. He is an experienced educator, trainer, and consultant whose approach to human and organizational growth is informed by values of openness, engagement, reflection, and empowering others. His professional practice facilitates growth through active learning, which helps identify obstacles and engages participants in working together to find solutions. He has worked with many clients, from businesses to non-profit organizations in the US and Israel.
Previously, Daniel was the Director of the Leadership Development Institute at Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, where he led a team of 5 organizational consultants that worked with synagogues and Jewish communal organizations to make them more effective and efficient. He worked at Brandeis University as the Director of Experiential Learning and Teaching, where he helped faculty incorporate active and reflective learning into their teaching to make their classes more engaging and their content more relevant for students. Before that, Daniel founded and directed MABAT, an Israeli non-profit dedicated to improving intercultural awareness among all Israeli citizens through experiential and diversity programming at Israeli colleges and universities. Daniel served in the Israeli Defense Forces, worked as a tour guide for the Society for Protection of Nature in Israel, and as an Outward Bound instructor in Maryland, Massachusetts, and Maine. His graduate education at Brandeis University earned him a master’s of business administration from the Heller School of Social Policy Management and a master’s from the Hornstein Program in Jewish Professional Leadership. He also earned a master’s in outdoor education from the University of New Hampshire. Daniel graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, where he played Varsity Lacrosse and tutored in local public schools.
He lives in Cambridge, MA, and volunteers with numerous nonprofit organizations, both Jewish and non-Jewish, locally, nationally, and in Israel. In his free time, Daniel enjoys outdoor adventure pursuits, seeing live music, and communal singing.
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Hannah Schutzengel
- Administrative Assistant to the Department of Synagogue Leadership
- [email protected]
