Professional Background

With 27-years marketing and commercial experience in two FTSE100 and two family-owned businesses, including 11 years on various boards, Gary’s executive experience across both services and consumer product business is extensive. He has led over 500 colleagues across more than 60 countries, and so understands the complexities of influencing stakeholders to get things done.

In his last corporate role as Global Brand Director of The Balvenie Single Malt, he grew value market share from 4.4% to 4.9%, from $405MM to $564MM, in 3 years and turned around Drambuie from 2 decades of decline to 3 years of consecutive growth (Source: IWSR).

While at William Grant & Sons he pioneered a new approach to understanding the dynamics behind the decline in colleagues feeling safe to speak up (psychological safety) over time including senior board level engagement in clear diagnostics and action planning to drive behaviour and policy changes.

He undertook a Masters (MSc) degree in Coaching and Behaviour Change at Henley Business School, so today uniquely combines a generation of corporate experience and over a decade at board level with the latest tools and techniques in leadership coaching, always customised to the Client’s needs. At Henley he also specialised in exploring six decades of empirical evidence on psychological safety in the context of the workplace, alongside his own pioneering research. 

Today he dedicates his efforts to supporting and coaching leaders tounlock their own full potential and also give their team a voice, as improved psychological safety delivers stronger inclusion and diversity, greater creativity and innovation, and stronger engagement and performance.

He is currently working with FMCG, creative industry, professional and financial services, and elite sporting businesses.

Education/Training

• Henley Business School - Masters (MSc) Coaching and Behavioural Change

• Bath University - MBA

• Chartered Institute of Marketing - Diploma in Marketing

• University of Plymouth - BA (Hons) Marketing 

• Accredited Insights® Discovery practitioner 

Professional Affiliations

• Member of The International Coaching Federation (ICF) 

• Member of The European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC)