I came to professional executive and leadership coaching from nearly forty years’ experience, twenty as CEO, and over a decade in senior leadership positions in the global tech and software industry. Today, I am a Newfield Network ICF ACTP Ontological Coach. A lifelong student of the human condition, I've devoured the books and teachings of authorities on human growth, development and personal mastery from every imaginable perspective - psychological, philosophical, biological, neurological, perceptual, spiritual, metaphysical. Today, I not only follow the thinking surrounding organizational development, dynamics, and the impact of leadership, but also the technology that’s changing the way we work and relate to one another. Two key technologies are blockchain (encoded trust) and Agile (collaboration dynamics). I'm a new student of blockchain, curious about its impact on trust within and between organizations through the use of “trust-enforcing” artifacts like smart contracts. I am also actively involved with the Agile community in Southern California, learning firsthand, from practitioners, about its impact on team dynamics, and it’s application beyond software development. I coach both corporate executives and entrepreneurs, including the founders of Happster.com (disclosed with permission), a platform for employee engagement that stalled apparently due to the fear of leadership for transparency in the workplace, a topic of interest to me. While CEO, I learned from the experience and wisdom of my mastermind groups and from the world-class resources of YPO and Vistage. I devoured business best sellers as fast as they were published, from organizational development and leadership, to sales brains and the brains of every generational nuance in the workplace. I explored every mainstream test, assessment, and model framework that supposedly yields insight into personality, preference, compatibility or performance, from DiSC and Myers-Briggs, to EQi and StrengthsFinder 2.0. I entered coaching with the same passion, discipline, and high bar for learning and mastery. So I researched the strongest global thought leaders in my industry who were also aligned with my philosophy, heart and mission. I then sought out, and established personal and professional relationships to varying degrees, with these world-renowned experts: Julio Olalla. Founder of the Newfield Network ICF ACTP Ontological Coaching School in Boulder, CO, Julio co-founded the method and art of ontological coaching in the 1970s with Fernando Flores. He travels the globe, coaching and advising world leaders, governments, and Fortune 500 companies, then brings this experience back to Boulder to enrich his coaches. Our Newfield alumni community is vibrant and active, meeting monthly to continuously share and grow. My smaller mastermind group meets every three weeks to go even deeper. Dr. Marshall Goldsmith. One of the world’s leading executive educators, coaches, and authors, Marshall has coached over 150 major CEOs and countless teams. He is consistently ranked as one of the top ten business thinkers in the world. I first met Marshall in person at his home, taking a walk through his neighborhood in Rancho Santa Fe, CA. Marshall subsequently invited sixty coaches from around the world, myself included, to join him for several days of intensive, face-to-face training and mentoring on his method, Stakeholder Centered Coaching. He did this without charge or obligation except that we pay it forward in the future. With that, the Marshall Goldsmith LEAD60 Group was formed. We now meet regularly to continue to learn from his experience. I met AJ Willemsen, my new business partner, there. We are now bringing TrackingCoach.com to market, with Marshall's endorsement, to help streamline how business coaching results are delivered and managed in the stakeholder-centered paradigm. Dr. Lance Secretan. A former Fortune 100 company CEO, Lance is a world-renowned author and leadership teaching authority. He is currently ranked as the 6th most influential executive coach globally, guiding leadership teams who wish to transform their culture into the most inspirational in their industries. My chance encounter with Lance at the Salt Lake City conference I attended with Marshall forged the beginnings of a relationship. I share his passion to help move the dominant force in modern organizations from fear-based motivation to love-driven inspiration. His latest book, The Bellwether Effect, speaks to this. I highly recommend it. Dr. Sean Stephenson. Sean is living proof that you create your reality. An international best selling author, speaker and therapist, he is a mountain of inspiration. Sitting three feet tall in a wheelchair due to osteogenesis imperfecta, his life mission is to rid the world of insecurity. He shares the stage with U.S. Presidents, billionaire business moguls, celebrities, and the Dalai Lama. He then brings his wisdom and skills back to us, his students. I am Sean's student, bringing his perspective into the living room and boardroom. I’m heading back to Arizona this weekend for more of his mentorship and training.

Currently doing executive coaching at Cisco

Simply put: People are my business! The message of my #1 Best-selling book 7 Paths to Lasting Happiness has resonated with thousands of people who seek that elusive work/life balance. Finding personal happiness directly and positively impacts worker productivity, innovation and teammate collaboration. Perhaps this testimonial says it best. Testimonial: “As CIO of a $3.8 billion company, I brought Dr. Gourgouris on board to assist us in our leadership transformation journey. What I learned along the way is that leadership must be applied at every level of an organization. Dr. Gourgouris brings equal parts coach, mentor and educator, serving as an organizational Sherpa to guide your team to new levels of collaboration and success. With his even-handed demeanor and deep interpersonal skill sets, I have seen him transform people and organizations that were deemed unsalvageable.” -Steve Smith, former CIO of Orbitz and TBC Corporation

having 30 years global experience in Financial and Professional Services sectors.

Mary Lee Gannon, ACC, CAE is an award winning International Coach Federation certified executive coach, leadership development expert, author and founder of MaryLeeGannon.com, a consulting and coaching firm that helps leaders position their 'Leadership Impact' to enthuse transformational change – the same change that took her from welfare to CEO of organizations worth up to $26 million. She helps busy leaders get off the treadmill to nowhere with mindful confidence, connection and calm so they can be more effective, happier and have better relationships with the people who matter while it still matters. 18-Year CEO and ICF Certified Coach: Mary Lee has a unique perspective with 18 years as a CEO and is currently the president of a $24 million organization within a 80,000 employee organization in Pittsburgh and coaches executive leaders to high performance and happiness. She is an International Coach Federation Certified Coach, a Certified Professional Coach by Duquesne University, a Certified Association Executive, an alumnus of the UCLA Mindful Awareness Practices Program and the Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital Coaching in Medicine & Leadership Conference, a scholarship recipient of the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute at Georgetown University’s Institute for Transformational Leadership created at Google, and a member of Pittsburgh Coaches Association. She is the author or two books: Reinvent You – From Welfare to CEO and Starting Over. Personal Turnaround: Mary Lee’s personal turnaround came as a stay-at-home mother with four children under seven-years-old who endured a divorce that took her and her children from the country club life to public assistance from where she re-invented her life to support her family. Awards/Recognition: Mary Lee is the recipient of the Honorary Woman if Courage Award by Pennsylvania Women Work, The Lifetime Achievement Award by Pittsburgh Society of Association Executives, The Women of Integrity Award by Pittsburgh Professional Women, The Leading Lady Award by Oakland Catholic and WHIRL Magazine's Women in Business. Mary Lee is the "Mindful Leadership" columnist for Smart Business Magazine and is a former reporter for The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. She’s been featured in Money Magazine, ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR, Yahoo.com, U.S. News and World Report, msn.com, Forbes.com, CareerBuilder.com and Monster.com. People most certainly can have a rewarding career in a fulfilling field with a team who admires them while also being happy, enjoying a simplified life and good relationships with the people who matter. Clients move from the heaviness of indecision to the freedom of: • Executive presence and career effectiveness. • Gained respect for purposeful work. • Managing both physical and emotional energy and avoiding distractions. • Confidence, candor and calm. • A promotion or new career opportunity where people compete to work with you. • Better mindful relationships in life and work. • More happiness, sleep, wellness and fun. At a certain level in leadership everyone is smart, experienced and highly capable; those traits are no longer differentiators. Unfortunately, at this level there are less and less supports for leaders. Doubt shatters progress. More hours are not the answer. That's where I can help. People get exhausted on the treadmill to nowhere even though they have been successful in school, business, and have a great family yet often they thought they’d be further ahead by now and it just isn’t happening. They feel: • Effective most of the time yet: ineffective where it counts; tired; a lack of executive presence, emotional intelligence or critical thinking skills; or judged by age bias - other's think you're too young or too old. • Passed over for promotion and don't understand how to change things. • Unable to self-regulate emotion or behavior. You've been stereotyped and it's holding you back. • Mired down in corporate cynicism, personal agendas and bureaucracy. • Disconnected from your team. They wish their team would just do their job. • Worried that not only might they drop down a notch on the career ladder, they might just get passed up or fall off all together and lose respect, confidence, and income. Within the next 15 years, nearly 15% of the global workforce may need to switch jobs, according to the McKinsey Global Institute. By 2030, 75 million to 375 million workers will change occupation categories; another 400 to 800 million could be displaced by automation and need new jobs entirely. Workers may not have the necessary skills to transition into these roles. As highly repeatable tasks become increasingly automated, soft skills and emotional intelligence — critical thinking, communication, and collaboration — are even more essential. marylee@maryleegannon.com 412-874-3918