About
Ted Gillary Consulting cultivates inspiring executive leaders.
Bringing a focus on thoughtful, results-based leadership strategies, Ted Gillary Consulting believes that true success comes when leadership inspires sustainable organizational habits of excellence.
To each opportunity, Ted brings his best practices and insightful experience to help others learn, grow, and thoughtfully lead. He partners closely with motivated leaders to help clarify their organization’s vision, evolve leadership skills, and make effective, strategic choices.
Ted strategically directs his expertise on emerging and evolving leaders who are willing to put in the hard work of self reflection and focused growth, and to develop a clear vision forward for their organization.
I’ve found that truly inspired leaders are people who understand both people and possibilities.
Inspiring leadership is built on three pillars: understanding, vision, and choices. Together you’ll work with Ted one-on-one in a regular schedule of sessions towards making your vision and goals a reality.
Understanding
Ted asks thinking questions to clarify current realities and explore alternative strategies. You’ll call upon best practices, share professional experiences, bring empathy to the fore, and utilize new information.
Vision
You’ll get beyond tactics and rise above the day-to-day. Ted prompts clients to embrace personal insights, and strengths as a leader, to clearly state their vision.
Choices
As clients begin looking at new possibilities and cultivating an open mind, Ted offers his own experience and insights. You’ll become more strategic and agile for inspired decision-making, and together you will design a plan towards constant improvement to achieve your organizational and leadership goals.
Ted Gillary is a recognized leader known for implementing sustainable quality management practices over his distinguished 35 years in club management. His extensive knowledge and personal approach has demonstrated how to align vision and strategy to build member loyalty and growth. His employee engagement and quality processes have been consistently recognized by awards from the Michigan Quality Council and the Best and Brightest Companies to Work For.
Since then, he has helped executives, teams, and organizations to reach their own inspired goals. He consults in a variety of industries and leadership areas including private club management, law office dynamics, healthcare patient satisfaction, and college services.
As a team member of Kopplin Kuebler & Wallace, Ted further provides experienced consulting and executive placement services to the club industry.
For centuries people have made their way around the globe by looking both to the stars which inspire great ideas, and to the horizon to stay grounded and assured they will get to their destination. The sextant puts both aspects into perspective to make the best choices towards your goal.
It’s an apt description of a leader’s journey as they navigate their organization’s path, evolving from where they are today to where they envision excelling in the future. With Ted you will clearly see the issues. Gather new information to shape the discussion. Calculate the most effective direction and always ready to correct the course along the way. Like the sextant, Ted brings it all together for you to realize your vision.
I blend practical experience, results-based coaching, and strategic consulting to assist motivated leaders to become agile in execution, to learn and grow personally, and to inspire others not just to follow—but also perhaps become leaders themselves.
Testimonials
“He knows the club business. He knows what people like us have gone through, particularly in recent years. Our work together was flexible and we had the opportunity to go off in different directions, which was really helpful.”
“What I really like is that Ted does a lot of active listening. He’ll pose a question or a thought, and really hears what the issues are. He helps you formulate what you are actually looking for, as opposed to delivering a cookie-cutter response.”
“I trusted Ted and could be an open book with him. I think you must be that way to get the most out of his coaching. Our conversations were always focused on how best to move our company forward and his wisdom benefited not only me but our entire firm.”
“As a leader at the Detroit Athletic Club, Ted created an environment of excellence; created processes to help people to succeed; and engaged people in the processes.”
As part of the esteemed team at KK&W, Ted brings his deep understanding of today’s challenging club environment to clients from across the country. Executive searches, leadership team development, leadership assessment, and cultural transformation consulting are among the services that help inspired leaders thrive and evolve with Ted’s engagement.