Dick Gourley - Managing Director
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Dick Gourley serves as Managing Director of the firm.
Dick’s diverse life experiences make him uniquely qualified to serve as a trusted advisor to leaders and organizations. As both a seasoned executive and management consultant, he has a wealth of knowledge available to share with clients who want to improve their organization’s business performance.
Clients describe him as a disciplined and structured problem solver; an excellent strategist and business planner; an experienced and innovative marketeer; a positive builder of teams; funny; and very easy-going. He is known for walking the talk, and for his commitment to serving others as a principle-centered servant leader.
Dick began his business career at IBM Corporation in Seattle, WA. During the next twenty years, he served in a number of international sales and marketing leadership positions at IBM, Oracle, Adaptec, GET Manufacturing, and Talk City Marketing Group.
In 2001, Dick established GSMR Consulting, a consulting firm serving Silicon Valley organizations that are starting-up or in transition. From 2001 through 2009, the firm’s clients included early stage startups, turnarounds, nonprofits, emerging private enterprises, and global public companies. Past clients include Ramp Networks, Fujitsu Software, Nokia, Imperito Networks, A4 Systems, Pacific Tweed, RE InfoLink, Alain Pinel, the State of California, and Lavante.
Dick established Mackenzie Stewart, a leadership development and strategy consulting firm, in 2010. Mackenzie Stewart incorporated servant leadership into the firm’s consulting methodology, and focused primarily on startups, emerging organizations, and social ventures in California. Industry focus expanded beyond high technology, and included retail, professional service firms, the wine industry, nonprofit trade associations, and the social sector. Past clients include Partners In School Innovation, ZitoVault Software, Proficio, and AthleticOutlook. Dick led Mackenzie Stewart from 2010 through 2017.
Today, he is focused on growing Dick Gourley Consulting, which was established in January 2018. Taking the lessons learned during a lifetime of service in both the business and nonprofit sectors, his purpose is simply to help leaders build enduring great organizations. He is also the Founder & Executive Director of Sol Duc Leadership, an innovative global nonprofit organization committed to helping create a better world. The organization is currently operating as an early-stage startup. Dick also serves as a Volunteer Coach and Advisor at the Carlsen Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship at CSU Sacramento.
Education: Dick attended the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering in 1975. He attended the IBM Executive Development Program, at Harvard Business School in 1985-1986. Dick then attended the UCLA Anderson School of Management in 1990-1991, and is a graduate of The Executive Program in Management.
Specialties: Leadership, Business Assessment, Customer-Development, Strategy, People & Organization, Execution, Marketing & Sales, & Business Transformation.