Garrick loves helping leaders solve business and human capital challenges. He brings a wealth of corporate and consulting experience to help organizations better align the human element of business with strategy and execution to achieve success. He coaches leaders and teams to find clarity, achieve results, and lead authentically. Other areas of expertise include creating high performing teams/culture, engaging employees, facilitating, and designing training. His style is compassionate, supportive, direct, and challenging (often with dry wit).
Clients call on him for his unique blend of coaching skills, people savvy, strategic problem solving, and business experience. Driven to make an impact, clients appreciate his passion for results and bias towards the pragmatic.
Prior to founding the Executas Group, Garrick had 15+ years of corporate and management consulting experience working with global senior leaders and teams across a diverse set of industries including hospitality, law, e-commerce, financial services, travel, energy, and consumer goods. Highlights include:
- World 50 – owned a P&L while building and leading a global membership of 65+ F500 C-level executives for them to learn, collaborate, and find inspiration.
- InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) – executive roles in Strategy, Corporate Responsibility, and Organizational Design including launching a new business at the world’s largest hospitality company.
- Boston Consulting Group (BCG) – projects in post-merger integration, change management, sales force effectiveness, and assessing human capital and business processes.
- General Electric (GE) – graduated with honors from GE’s premier leadership development program; roles in Finance, Business Development (M&A), and as a Six Sigma Black Belt.
Garrick has a B.S. in business (cum laude) from Wake Forest University, a J.D. from the Northwestern University School of Law, and an MBA with a specialization in Management & Organizations from the Kellogg School of Management. He is certified in Hogan Assessment, Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI), Emotional Intelligence (EQ-i2.0 + EQ360) and the Enneagram Type Indicator. He is an Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through the International Coach Federation (ICF) and a graduate of Georgetown University’s leadership coaching program. Garrick teaches as core faculty for the Executive Coaching Diploma Program at Emory University’s Goizueta School of Business and School of Medicine.
He currently resides in Atlanta and loves traveling (30+ countries & counting), photography, outdoor festivals, cheesy 1980’s films, and finding the best pizza wherever he is.