Greg Gaines, Associate Coach

Greg Gaines strongly believes that corporate leaders can drive significant change in organizational culture, resulting in healthy environments that not only value inclusion where all employees feel respected, valued and contribute to a company’s success, but where people are empowered to maximize their individual and team strengths.

Greg is a business and leadership coach with more than 25 years of organizational leadership. He has spent the bulk of his career in the technology industry, from HR & OD to VP of Global Sales & Marketing, to Chief Marketing & Sales Officer. He founded and continues to lead GKG Marketing, advising and coaching business owners, executives, and marketing leaders to design and implement programs that improve customer engagement, better align the performance of marketing and sales teams, develop a culture of inclusion, and grow their business in a sustainable way. Focused on helping clients make their unconscious biases conscious, with the specific goal of turning awareness into action.

Greg considers himself fortunate to have been mentored and trained as a young professional. As a result of those positive, career-shaping experiences, mentoring and coaching became his way of sharing and giving back.

Greg is an ICF certified coach and a SCORE certified small business mentor. He has a bachelor’s degree from Drew University and attended Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business.

He and his wife Nancy recently moved to the greater Phoenix, AZ area. They both enjoy playing golf, exploring National Parks, and traveling.

CliftonStrengths Top Talent Themes: Belief, Individualization, Responsibility, Arranger, Learner, Ideation, Achiever