Gary Ranker

Global leadership expert Dr. Gary Ranker of New York City uses targeted executive coaching to help many top CEOs and other senior management stretch their productivity to keep pace with the increasing demands of delivering ever greater profit, often from reduced resources.

The feedback loop of the coach's observation of an executive's style and form of management, is the same as the coach who observes an Olympic athlete's style and form. Both the executive coach and the athletic coach have the same goal — to help the key individual deliver more productivity from the same body, the same person. In both cases there is clear recognition that the competition is intense, and they must find ways to improve as no one will thank them for delivering the same results next year as this. Someone is always going to run faster, and jump higher. It's the same in business.

Dr Ranker has worked and lived on four continents. He was first appointed a CEO when he was just 30 — the German subsidiary of an American consumer products company. He managed that firm wholly in the language of his employees, rather than his native English. After managing three separate companies as a CEO in the UK, Germany and Australia, he returned to Los Angeles, California where he taught comparative management at the famed University of Southern California (USC), and during that time did his doctoral research.

Dr. Ranker is one of the fathers of the growing worldwide profession of executive coaching. He was asked to become one of GE CEO Jack Welch's  first executive coaches in 1989, before the term was widely known. GE remains his longest and closest client — he has helped hundreds of their senior executives to become even more successful managers. His typical clients benefit from his help to grow their "Global Mindset" — the ability to manage across borders, being respectful of and also valuing cultural differences.

Today he travels over 500,000 km per year focusing on helping very senior executives in many countries "to become the very best they can be".  His clients see their executive coaching as a very personal form of executive education which gives them a competitive advantage in a fast changing, increasingly competitive world.  They know that in order to stay on top they have to keep improving how effectively they manage.

You are going to love working with Gary. Gary coached me in 1995-1996 and frankly he is still giving me advice, coaching tips and suggestions for making me a better leader and a better person today.

Gary has worked with a large number (probably more than 100) of senior GE executives and had a positive impact on them as individuals and on their career.

Gary is recognized by Forbes magazines as one of the top 5 coaches in the world. I am sure you will find this a valuable, rewarding and enriching experience.


Enjoy the experience.
Steve

Steve Sargent
Officer, General Electric Company

Gary Ranker speaks at Thunderbird Najafi Global Mindset Institute's Developing Leaders for Global Roles Summit about his role in the global mindset executive coaching profession and his experiences worldwide with senior global leaders.

Gary Ranker speaks at The Conference Board on the importance of long term follow through with executive coaching, much like athletes need continuing coaching and feedback to continue to be their best.

From left: Tak (head of NYC office), Miki (asst to Itoh), Denise (TCB), Gary, Keiko (officer of COACH A) having dinner at Les Sans Culottes (French) restaurant in NYC 57th St/2nd Avenue during The Conference Board's Executive Coaching Conference NYC March 27+28, 2012

Gary Ranker, Keynote Speaker, International Coaching Conference, Taipei, Taiwan December 2011