Full Name
David Nour
Job Title
Founder & CEO, Avnir
Speaker Bio
David Nour is the Founder & CEO of Avnir, an AI-native platform for Intelligent Relationship Management™, purpose-built to help leaders turn fragmented contacts into measurable relationship assets and durable revenue growth. Avnir operationalizes Nour’s pioneering Relationship Economics® framework—bringing structure, intelligence, and accountability to one of the most underleveraged assets in business, relationships.
Nour is a senior leadership advisor, educator, executive coach, and bestselling author. He is widely recognized for helping organizations apply strategic relationships to drive profitable growth, real innovation, and sustained transformation. He is the author of twelve books, translated into eight languages, including bestsellers Relationship Economics® (3rd Edition) (Wiley), Curve Benders (Wiley), and Co-Create (St. Martin’s Press). His work introduced practical, quantifiable frameworks for treating relationships not as soft skills—but as strategic, economic assets.
As CEO of Avnir, Nour now leads the next evolution of his life’s work: using AI to surface hidden relationship value, prioritize trust-based connections, and guide leaders toward smarter relationship investment decisions. Avnir is rapidly becoming the system of record for relationship-driven growth among professional services firms that believe “selling harder” is no longer enough.
In parallel, Nour continues to advise executive teams globally and is a sought-after keynote speaker, challenging audiences—from boardrooms to global conferences—to rethink how growth actually happens in a trust-constrained, signal-overloaded economy. He is an Adjunct Professor at the Goizueta Business School at Emory University and has been recognized as a Global Gurus Top 30 Leadership Professional and a Thinkers50 Radar honoree.
A longtime contributor to Forbes Leadership on the Future of Work and Inc. on Relationship Economics, Nour’s insights have appeared in Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Fast Company, Entrepreneur, Knowledge@Wharton, and BusinessWorld India.
Born in Iran, Nour immigrated to the United States as a teenager with $100, limited family ties, and no fluency in English. He earned a bachelor’s degree in business management from Georgia State University and an Executive MBA from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School.
Nour is a senior leadership advisor, educator, executive coach, and bestselling author. He is widely recognized for helping organizations apply strategic relationships to drive profitable growth, real innovation, and sustained transformation. He is the author of twelve books, translated into eight languages, including bestsellers Relationship Economics® (3rd Edition) (Wiley), Curve Benders (Wiley), and Co-Create (St. Martin’s Press). His work introduced practical, quantifiable frameworks for treating relationships not as soft skills—but as strategic, economic assets.
As CEO of Avnir, Nour now leads the next evolution of his life’s work: using AI to surface hidden relationship value, prioritize trust-based connections, and guide leaders toward smarter relationship investment decisions. Avnir is rapidly becoming the system of record for relationship-driven growth among professional services firms that believe “selling harder” is no longer enough.
In parallel, Nour continues to advise executive teams globally and is a sought-after keynote speaker, challenging audiences—from boardrooms to global conferences—to rethink how growth actually happens in a trust-constrained, signal-overloaded economy. He is an Adjunct Professor at the Goizueta Business School at Emory University and has been recognized as a Global Gurus Top 30 Leadership Professional and a Thinkers50 Radar honoree.
A longtime contributor to Forbes Leadership on the Future of Work and Inc. on Relationship Economics, Nour’s insights have appeared in Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Fast Company, Entrepreneur, Knowledge@Wharton, and BusinessWorld India.
Born in Iran, Nour immigrated to the United States as a teenager with $100, limited family ties, and no fluency in English. He earned a bachelor’s degree in business management from Georgia State University and an Executive MBA from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School.
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