# Awaiting Approval. Season 2, Episode 14 : Dan Onufrisyhn - Generosity

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Podcast: [Awaiting Approval](https://stenobird.com/podcast/awaiting-approval-7315994)
Published: 2026-03-05T08:09:00+00:00
Episode link: https://growwithadamjennings.substack.com/p/awaiting-approval-season-2-episode-c56
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Dan Onufrishyn is Director of the Creative Leadership Program at Miami Ad School. But before the title, before the CV, before the impressive brand list, there is something simpler running through this conversation: generosity. We start on a nature walk with green tea in a thermos. Mountains, sketchbooks, laptops, stream-of-consciousness doodles. It quickly becomes clear that Dan thinks in systems, in patterns, in long arcs. His career moves the same way. From Denver to New York. From School of Visual Arts to ESPN. From broadcast graphics in Times Square to J.P. Morgan, WPP, healthcare consultancies, sports management, data science. In-house. Agency. Freelance. Back again. It is a career built on curiosity. Dan talks about how every industry has its own culture and language. Entertainment runs like entertainment. Finance runs like finance. Healthcare runs like healthcare. As creatives, we get immersed inside those systems. We learn to observe them. Translate them. Shape them. But the heart of this episode is leadership.Dan speaks openly about the shift from making artefacts to leading people. About the shock of stepping into responsibility without a manual. About the importance of alignment before momentum. About lessons learned the hard way when executive buy-in came too late. And then we get to Miami Ad School. His move into teaching happened organically. A partnership event. A conversation. A follow-up. Now he’s shaping the next generation of creative directors, not just teaching craft, but teaching relationship-building, empathy, accountability, and how to “do the right thing well.” It is clear this is where his generosity lands most powerfully.We also talk about AI. The speed of change. The myth of the machine being smarter than it is. Dan’s view is grounded and pr…

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