Gary is an experienced leader with over forty years of experience providing executive level, project-based and leadership development coaching to individuals and teams across seven states and 20 California counties. For seven years, he served as the director of a large governmental agency overseeing a $300 million budget and staff of 1500. His experience includes strategic planning, budget oversight, community engagement, data analysis, working with the faith based community, as well as workforce development. He is also instrumental in consulting on race, equity, and diversity programming. Gary is also a Senior Fellow with the Child Welfare League of America, Faculty Member with the Child Family Policy Institute of California, the Consortium For Children, and has served as Faculty on the Administration of Children and Families, Quality Improvement Center on Domestic Violence in Child Welfare. Much of his career has been dedicated to child welfare as well as other human service and for profit agencies, large and small, public, and private such as SCRAMM/Nexus. His life coaching services include partnering with authors, artists, and tech firms.