Dan Horowitz is a connector! As LinkedIn’s Director for Advocacy and Campaigns he builds teams that make a difference on specific issues. This role follows an almost 20-year career at FleishmanHillard where his team provided integrated marketing communications solutions to non-profits, government. entities and corporations.

In addition to his day job, Dan and his wife are devoted parents to a son who is on the autism spectrum. He loves to discuss meteorology and politics making the DC-area the perfect place for him to live and work.

We discuss: 

• Coffee-shop networking,
• Navigating D.C. as an introvert,
• Encouraging people in all stages of their career,
• How an interest in the weather led to a career in digital,
• The LinkedIn job that resulted from Dan's own networking,  
• Dan's summer sabbatical and the books that he found most impactful (list below),
• Educating students with special needs, and
• The power of neurodiversity.