About GRS
Golden Rule Solutions, LLC is an independent general consulting company designed to provide innovative ideas, advice, counsel, and other consulting services to large and small businesses, non-profit companies, public-private entities, the public sector, and other types of organizations and entities which desire to make a positive and meaningful impact on the world with their operations by realizing both their profitable, as well as their non-commercial and societally beneficial, goals.
At its philosophical heart, GRS is dedicated to promoting quality and pragmatic social change through a practical and forward-looking, as well as compassionate and tolerant, approach to business, finance, products and services, and to the social institutions, organizations, individuals, and families which drive them.
Principal/Consultant
Dara Sanandaji
Dara Sanandaji graduated from Dartmouth College in 2000, where he earned a B.A. in Economics and studied abroad at the University Autónoma de Madrid. He then graduated from Chicago-Kent College of Law in 2006, and is currently an active, non-practicing attorney in the State of Illinois. Dara worked in financial services following law school, where he earned his Certified Financial Planner (CFP®) designation in 2011.
A few years later, Dara transitioned into the creative arts, including writing, filmmaking, and screenwriting, and since then he has written, directed, produced, and edited two award-winning feature-length documentary films (Breaking the Silence and Two Weeks with Dada), published two books (Breaking the Silence—A Journey Deep Inside the Mind and Mirror for the Mind—A Tribute to the Wisdom of Humanity), and has written an award-winning pilot for a television series (Situational Awareness). Dara is also a staunch mental health advocate and has recently consulted for a first-episode psychosis clinic at a renowned Chicago hospital, designing and building out their robust peer support program. He is also particularly adept at public speaking and mentoring.
Incidentally, Dara was also accepted into American Mensa in 2013 and hosted his own independent radio show, "The Big Picture Radio Show," on WSBC 1240 AM Chicago/WCFJ 1470 AM Chicago Heights in 2014.