With a long standing career coaching executives from privately and publicly held companies and a doctorate in psychology, Gary Wenet brings a breadth and depth of experience in building executive leadership capacity, the formation and development of high performance management teams and facilitating organizational change. Gary coauthored the book, Leadership as a Habit of Mind (Amacom, 2000), focused on how exemplary leaders leverage the lessons from their lives to shape how they lead their organizations. Gary has served on the teaching and training faculty at the University of Washington and on the faculty of American Management Association facilitating week long executive development workshops. Gary’s passion for the people side of business involves a commitment to bringing out the best in others by bringing the best of himself to the partnership.
He has had long standing consulting relationships with companies as diverse as Amazon, Oracle, RealNetworks, Control 4, Remitly, Cray, Inc., Palo Alto Networks, UniSecure, Aimmune, Scopito,Effimat, Ben Bridge Jewelers, Aimmune, Medivation, Fincantieri Corp., Chiron Corporation, Yellow Mountain Stoneworks, Aegis Living, Dendreon, Anderson-Chamberlin, Novartis, Allergen, FibroGen, Snohomish County P.U.D., and Todd Pacific Shipyards. His engagement with these companies has included extensive executive coaching, leading organizational and culture change initiatives, facilitating the strategic planning process, and leading off-site retreats for boards and executive teams. In addition, Gary’s work with a wide range of early stage companies has involved him mobilizing his professional network to recruit executive talent, forge strategic business relationships, and attract investment partners.
Gary has served on the Advisory Boards of Stratos Product Development Group, Bungee Technology Labs, Auricast, Inc., Fairway Pricing Technologies, Clarity Health Solutions and Eila Corp and Renticity. As a change agent, Gary prides himself on being a clear communicator, collaborative, and committed to facilitating the ongoing leadership and organizational development of each of the leaders with whom he is associated. In his professional engagements, Gary has learned that to be successful in his work it is essential that executives and their companies demonstrate a broad and deep commitment to ongoing learning and are prepared to take on the hard work that will be involved in achieving meaningful change.
Gary has established leadership development programs for numerous technology, biopharmaceutical, and biotechnology companies. His leadership coaching with executives and managers focuses on bringing each leader’s highest value into action to benefit the company by leveraging their core strengths. His organizational development work is designed to identify key cross functional issues that run the risk of undermining the company’s success and bringing the key stakeholders to the table to work through the issues. Finally, in his process, Gary assists the broad leadership team in making sure that employees are working with a shared sense of urgency that is aligned with the organizational strategic objectives. It is the inherent fulfillment that comes with being a partner in the development of exemplary leaders and organizations that fuels the passion Gary brings to his work. In addition to his professional work, Gary has sat on the board of several non-profit organizations and is the Co-Founder of iBuildBridges.org, a nonprofit that supports a diverse group of young musical artists to use their talent to build bridges between people of different cultures, races or religions. In his free time, Gary pursues his personal passion for singing.
