Daryl Fort

Daryl Fort is a Leadership and organizational development consultant and a gender violence prevention activist, speaker, and educator. With a focus on developing healthy and thriving community, organizational, and peer group culture, he has worked with community-based and non-profit organizations as well as public and private sector institutions throughout North America, Eastern Asia, Europe, Iraq, and Australia.

He spent 14 years as a political and public policy advisor to a former U.S. Congressman and Governor of Maine. During his government service, Daryl served on the Maine Children’s Cabinet, along with Commissioners for the State’s Agencies dealing with health and welfare, education, labor development, and youth services. He led the state’s initiatives establishing an Office of Multicultural Affairs, Office of Health Equity, and Multicultural Affairs Cabinet.

Since leaving the government, Daryl has consulted with many organizations in strategic planning and implementation, leadership development, curriculum, and program development, as well as facilitation training. Daryl has also worked with Ownership and Executive leadership, professional athletes, coaches, professional staff, administrators, and league officials from major league sports and collegiate athletes and coaches.

As a subject matter expert in sexual assault prevention with the U.S. Marine Corps, the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Department of the Navy, and U.S. Air Force, and the Australian Army, he has worked directly with thousands of military personnel around the world, including, deployed troops in Iraq, Europe, and Asia.

A former Trustee for Maine Boys to Men, the Maine Center for Sport and Coaching, and the Maine Center for Economic Policy, Daryl currently serves on the board of directors for the Maine Sports Hall of Fame, Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, and The Maine Coalition to End Domestic Violence.

A native of New Haven, Connecticut, and current resident of Portland, Maine, he holds a BA in Political Science from the University of Maine, where he was also a tight end and defensive end on the football team.