Gary Merrill
Gary Merrill has, for the last thirty years, investigated
and applied the principles of human ecology, psychology and
organization development to help groups and individuals successfully
navigate the perpetual white water of change. Gary is a process
architect, group facilitator, educator and executive coach who has
served numerous and varied clients in both the private and public
sector and across many manufacturing and service industries,
governments, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and nonprofit
organizations.
Gary’s organizational work is dedicated to facilitating the
emergence of more viable, vital and sustainable organizations
and communities. His individual work is focused primarily on
fostering the capacity of leaders to achieve success within the
context of the “triple bottom line” and to lead with greater
authenticity, meaning and purpose. Gary believes that the “next
industrial revolution” is both imperative and underway, and he
is at his best when working with people who are eager to lead
it.
Gary’s approach to individual and organizational change is
strengths-based. He works with clients using instrumentation and
appreciative inquiry to foster an understanding of what’s
working as well as what’s not. He has found that strategies
based on strengths speed implementation and move people and
systems faster and more effectively toward their desired future
Since the mid-90s Gary has pioneered the use of interactive
computer decision support tools and online meeting environments.
He has designed and facilitated interactive strategic planning
sessions, focus groups, large-scale virtual conferences and team
development meetings using a number of technology platforms. He
has recently co-created Third Life Lab, a virtual learning and
conference center in Second Life, an online, three-dimensional
virtual world. There, he conducts coaching sessions, facilitates
experiential team development programs and mentors people
learning to work and play in radically new ways.
Gary’s clients include Hewlett Packard, Cisco, Wyse Technology,
Whole Foods, the International Monetary Fund, General Motors,
Granite Construction, the City of Grand Rapids, Stanford University,
Mount Madonna School, the Santa Cruz Hospice Caring Project, and
more than two hundred individual coaching clients.
Prior to his work as an external consultant, Gary held senior
leadership and human resource management positions in a technology
start-up, a major aerospace company, and in the world’s leading
career management consulting firm. He holds an A.B. in Human
Ecology/Psychology, an M.S. in Clinical and Community Psychology,
and several professional certifications.
Gary is an archer, hiker,
photographer, gardener, sailor, a devoted husband and father, and a
person deeply committed to, as Thomas Berry described it, doing the
Great Work of our time.
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