Dave was born in Newark, New Jersey and grew up in the suburban town of Glen Ridge, New Jersey. He has been a shoe shine boy, a moving man, a golf caddy, a limousine driver, a truck driver, worked retail at The Home Depot, a life insurance agent, a stock broker and financial advisor. He studied the humanities and comparative literature at Ohio Wesleyan University.
In addition to his speaking and training programs, Dave is a freelance writer and teaches several classes in the Humanities as  an Adjunct Professor at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Rutgers University.  The classes he teaches include -

• Why We Hate and Why There's Hope - An Introduction to the Science of Social Psychology
• The Wisdom of Spirit - An Introduction to the Great Faiths of the World
• My Time Has Come, Now What Do I Do With It - A course designed to help people enrich their lives during retirement.

Dave is a member of the Somerville, New Jersey Toastmasters Club where he has served as President, Vice-President of Public Relations, Secretary, Treasurer, and Sergeant-at-Arms.   Dave has won numerous speaking awards, and has served as an Area Director and Division Director, a Club Mentor  and has mentored eight individual members of Toastmasters.  Dave is one of the founding members of the OMNI-PRO Speakers Bureau, the speakers bureau of Toastmasters District 83.

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Dave’s interests include music, especially from the Classical and Romantic periods, and he holds a very special fondness for the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan.

Some of Dave’s special interests in literature include the Hornblower novels of C. S. Forrester and the Lord Peter Wimsey novels of Dorothy Leigh Sayers. Dave is a member of the United Kingdom-based Dorothy Leigh Sayers Society  and the Royal Society of Literature.

Dave’s hobbies include fresh water fly fishing, surfing on the Atlantic Ocean, social psychology, and comparative religion.

Dave Chapman lives in Flemington, New Jersey, with his wife, Janice Buffalow.

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