Practice Areas: Advocacy and Lobbying; Board Governance; Executive Coaching; Executive Transition and Succession Planning; Leadership Development; Mergers; Acquisitions; Strategic Partnerships; Organizational Design and Structure; Strategic Planning

Select Support Center Experience: Habitat for Humanity of Dutchess County; Fulfill NJ

Gary is an executive coach and consultant with over 25 years of experience in the nonprofit sector and a strong commitment to equity & inclusion, community building, education, and leadership development. He also teaches nonprofit leadership, management, and strategy at Baruch College and Columbia University.

Gary helps leaders and their Boards and teams perform more effectively while finding greater purpose in their work. He supports teams in improving their collaboration, decision making, and performance by developing structures and practices that help them to better achieve the organization’s mission. Gary also provides a range of consulting services, such as strategic planning, succession planning, and board coaching and development.

Gary contributed his vision and leadership to building New York Cares into one of the leading nonprofit organizations in New York City, serving over eight hundred nonprofits and schools with education, hunger, and public spaces programming. During his tenure, New York Cares tripled its service delivery – executing more than 20,000 projects and filling 150,000 volunteer positions annually. Gary’s passion for equity helped him transform New York Cares into an antiracist organization, a true reflection of the multicultural society within which it operates. By embedding principles of equity and social justice in the work of the organization and in his leadership and management, Gary shifted the focus of New York Cares from the volunteers to the communities.

Before joining New York Cares, Gary held positions at nonprofit organizations focused on arts education – Young Audiences New York and TADA! Youth Theater.

Certifications: ICC Associate Certified Coach, IDI Qualified Administrator

Networks/ Affinity Groups: State Commission on National and Community Service; National Urban Fellows; Nonprofit New York