Dan Collison
Vice President of Strategic Growth + Public Affairs
Sherman Associates
Dan Collison is a visionary business, civic, interdisciplinary, and cross-sector executive leader who specializes in organizational leadership and real estate development focused on housing, public policy and business development. His current professional work includes being Senior Director of Business Development & Public Affairs for Sherman Associates, and a professional videographer. Collison spends most of his days bringing people together across sectors through inter-disciplinary work for the explicit purpose of promoting human flourishing and building diverse community. As a civic leader he has been instrumental in providing strategic leadership for the Minneapolis Downtown Council, East Town Business Partnership and the NūLoop Partners amidst unprecedented redevelopment in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, catalyzing new business growth and forging new strategic collaborations between business leaders, civic leaders, and the residential communities of the East Downtown and North Loop districts in particular.
