Gary V. Koyen, Ph. D.
Founder & Senior Partner
Gary Koyen has over forty years of experience as a consultant and educator, and has designed and delivered some of the highest quality programs for corporate transformation in the world. An experienced international consultant, he has worked with leaders and companies in America, Australia, Canada, Europe, Hong Kong, India, Japan, and Singapore.
Koyen brings a unique blend of attention to both the hard and soft sides of business, with particular attention to creating hard business results through impact on culture, people, and leadership. In addition to his extensive study of psychology, he has a strong quantitative background in hard sciences, advanced math, logic, statistics, and research design, and brings all of these factors to bear in his transformational programs. In addition, he applies real intellectual rigor to the process of affecting people and organizations, and creating the conditions for sustained success.
He is a creative and provocative consultant, valued by CEOs and senior leaders for his insight, candor, and courage. His clients have included various divisions of AT&T (including Bell Laboratories), Duke Power Company (now Duke Energy), Chase-Manhattan Bank (now JP Morgan-Chase), Livermore Labs, PRD of Australia, Idaho National Energy Lab, Greyhound, Turner Broadcasting, Cox Communications, MCI, American Express-Asia, AGL Resources Inc., Prudential Insurance of America, Cisco Systems, Delta Air Lines, Safeco Insurance, The Hartford, Avaya, and numerous smaller companies.
Koyen attended the University of Nebraska, where he was granted his Ph.D. in learning and research psychology in 1976. Earlier in his career, he was a Professor in Management and Administration at the University of Oregon, where he taught courses in management, research methods, and organizational diagnosis and development.
Gary was born at Fremont, Nebraska, and grew up on a farm east of Fremont. He is an avid outdoorsman and athlete, involved in camping, hiking, scuba, rock-climbing, whitewater rafting, mountaineering, mountain biking, skiing, hunting, fishing, snowshoeing, running, and other athletic activities.