With 25 years of professional experience, Danielle Joleigh Bennett has been recognized as a Top Professional by Marquis Who’s Who. She has led through transitions including gender, military, corporate, and entrepreneurial environments, bringing a human-centered leadership lens to high-stakes program recovery, executive coaching, consulting, and franchise brokering. In her newly released book, Leadership Voltage, available now on Amazon, Bennett challenges the myth of perfect leadership, focusing instead on performance over time: building humans, not breaking them. Her work reflects lived experience where survival became insight, and insight became systems that work.
An Early Dedication to Leadership
Since age 14, Bennett has served as a leader. She began by coaching youth teams in her small Midwestern town and realized that she had a gift for seeing the best version of those around her. By the time she was 19, Bennett resolved to apply this experience by serving in the U.S. Navy. From 2005 to 2018, she worked as a supervisor of aircraft maintenance and quality in Guam, commissioned in 2011 as a supply corps officer serving onboard the USS Cheyenne and USS Asheville from 2012 to 2016 in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, before heading to the Defense Contract Management Agency in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Educational Experience
Bennett’s education was shaped by the demands of leadership. She holds degrees in financial services and managerial accountancy, followed by a Master of Science in acquisition and supply chain management. As her responsibilities expanded into crisis response and large-scale operations, she completed advanced training in emergency management, executive leadership, and organizational change leadership.
In 2023, she completed the Harvard Business Analytics Program, adding data-driven strategy to a career already grounded in execution. Together, her education reflects a consistent focus on leading people, systems, and outcomes under pressure.
From Military to Civilian Service
Bennett concluded her service in the Navy as a senior program support manager in 2018, then joined Leonardo DRS as a senior program manager. Within two years, she was appointed senior program manager of engineering development at the company, a position she held for the next four years.
A year after joining Leonardo DRS, Ms. Bennet also became managing director at DS7 LLC, where she remains today. After leaving Leonardo DRS in 2024, she joined the Astronautics Corporation of America as a senior program manager and product line leader, a role she continues to hold. Since 2025, Ms. Bennet has also served as president and franchise owner of MosquitoNix of Madison and Waukesha County.
Founding Radiant Legacy Collective Inc.
In 2025, Bennett founded Radiant Legacy Collective Inc., serving as president and chief executive officer. The company reflects a leadership philosophy shaped by decades of consulting, program execution, and systems thinking, one grounded in the belief that people do their best work when they are genuinely seen.
At Radiant Legacy Collective, Bennett leads the development of integrated product lines while guiding cross-functional teams toward shared outcomes. Her approach emphasizes clarity, accountability, and respect for the individual contributions that make complex systems work. She has long maintained that recognition is not a soft value but a strategic one: when people are valued, performance follows.
After years of collaborating with organizations and senior leaders to untangle high-stakes challenges, Bennett now sees echoes of her work in programs that have gone on to achieve valuations in the hundreds of millions. Radiant Legacy Collective was created as a natural extension of that journey, not to scale a single product, but to scale impact. Its mission is simple and ambitious: to help as many people as possible build resilient systems, meaningful work, and lasting legacies.
Growth and Momentum
Throughout 2025, Radiant Legacy Collective evolved from a founding vision into an operating platform. The organization expanded its work with small businesses and leadership teams, focusing on one core objective: accelerating profit through clarity, alignment, and durable systems. Rather than chasing rapid expansion, the company concentrated on refining its methods, testing frameworks, strengthening delivery, and ensuring that results translated into real operational and financial gains for clients.
That foundation now positions Radiant Legacy Collective to serve a significantly broader leadership audience in 2026.
Central to this next phase is Voltage Brands, a structured portfolio designed to meet leaders where complexity, growth, and scale intersect. Through Leadership Voltage, Franchise Voltage, Business Voltage, and the Voltage System, the platform provides targeted pathways for leaders navigating expansion, transition, and performance pressure. Each offering is built to translate leadership insight into executable systems—connecting strategy, people, and profit without unnecessary friction.
As small business owners and franchise leaders face tightening margins, rising operational demands, and constant decision fatigue, Radiant Legacy Collective’s focus remains pragmatic. The work is not about motivation or theory, but about building voltage—sustainable energy within organizations that drives momentum, accountability, and measurable outcomes.
Looking ahead to 2026, Radiant Legacy Collective is positioned to support more leaders than ever before, not by scaling noise but by scaling precision. The goal is simple and ambitious: to help leaders grow stronger businesses, make better decisions, and build systems that endure.
Ambition for the Future
Moving forward, Bennett hopes to focus on developing her leadership frameworks. To this end, she aims to deliver immersive conferences that fuse neuroscience, emotional intelligence, and graceful leadership to drive organizational and individual transformation. With this mission, Bennett intends to help 100 million people over the course of five years.
