David Haas
Public Speaker, Small Business Owner, and Volunteer in West Dundee, Illinois
For more than 25 years David Haas has devoted time and energy to making his business, communities, schools, teams, non-profit organizations and the people around him better.
Now, while he is a business owner (www.miraclemethod.com/chicago), he also is a volunteer for Dundee Highlands Elementary School (DHES), a DHES PTC member, a volunteer soccer coach for the Dundee Township Park District and a Planning and Zoning Commisioner for West Dundee.
David has a deep relationship with Northern Illinois University where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Marketing and his MBA. He spent almost a decade working for the NIU in the divisions of Outreach and Advancement. While working in advancement David was the director of operations for the Alumni Association, then a gift officer for the NIU Foundation and always made time as an adjunct instructor for the Professional Sales Program in the College of Business.
His career started in hospitality working for Walt Disney World and Marriott International. You could say he is wired for customer service.
Over the years David has worked on numerous boards and committees including one international board. These include: the Villa Park Chamber of Commerce, the editorial advisory board for Illinois Meetings+Events Magazine, Sigma Alpha Epsilon National Convention Planning Committee, a staff member for the NIU Alumni Association Board of Directors, the International Association of Conference Centers and multiple client advisory boards in higher education.
As an experienced emcee and auctioneer, David has assisted non-profit organizations on some of their biggest nights of fundraising. His volunteer efforts and clients included Marriott International's Torch Relay, Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, The Riverside Foundation, Anderson Animal Shelter, Naperville Area Humane Society, NIU's College of Business, Dundee Highlands Elementary School, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Alleluia Lutheran Church and more.
David resides in West Dundee with his wonderful wife, Micaela. They have two children, Nolan and Zoey and a sweet Cavalier King Charles named Rosie.