Dan Joslyn was born in Macon Georgia. He spent the early part of his youth on a potato farm in upstate Maine. When his family returned to Georgia, he completed high school in Monroe County and graduated from North Georgia College with a double major in history and sociology. After discharge from the U.S. Army he subsequently earned a masters degree in organizational sociology from Memphis State University.

Mr. Joslyn was later a teaching fellow at North Georgia College and has also served on faculties at Memphis State University, East Carolina University and the University of South Alabama. In 1973, he joined Clark College (now Clark Atlanta University), where he became Director of Research and Planning and later Assistant to the President and Vice-President for Development.

In 1978, Joslyn created Educational Management Systems a planning and organizational development firm that has worked with more than 200 nonprofit institutions and organizations including the nation’s historically black colleges. His national clients include, the American Foundation for the Blind, the Centers for Disease Control, City Cares of America, the Council on Foundations and the United Negro College Fund. He has served as a program evaluator for federal and UNCF programs and in a similar role for the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.

In Georgia he has provided planning and related services to Hands On Atlanta, Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta. Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School, the Episcopal Media Center. Morehouse School of Medicine, Georgia Institute of Technology, the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, the Non Profit Resource Center, Travelers Aid of Metropolitan Atlanta, Childkind, Inc. Reinhart College, Augusta Family Services, Clayton County Family Services and the Atlanta-based, American Intercontinental University, of Atlanta, Dubai, London and Los Angeles.

An amateur actor, Dan studied at the Academy Theater School of Performing Arts and worked briefly for a national public speaking firm. He continues to offer training and private coaching in public speaking. Recent and current work includes designing comprehensive IT leadership and management databases and maintaining on-going consultant services to a variety of colleges, universities, and nonprofit community service organizations while facilitating numerous board and staff retreats and workshops.

As a volunteer his activities include the Georgia Special Olympics, and trustee of The National Handicapped Sports and Recreation Association and the Northwest Unitarian Universalist Congregation, later serving as Director of Religious Education. A Buddhist, Dan is a disciple and member of the Board of Directors of the Atlanta Soto Zen Center

Dan is married to Susan B. Shelton, M.D., they have two daughters and three grandchildren.

Educational Management Systems became JoslynConsulting in 2003.

top