Gary Ryan

Gary Ryan is a Founding Director and owner of Organisations That Matter, a boutique management consulting firm that assists individuals, teams and organisations to achieve high performance through aligning people, strategy, systems and processes.

Why? When alignment is achieved organisations behave in ways that matter to the people working in them, the people the organisations serve and the broader community. Ultimately alignment matters if the organisation wishes to achieve its financial, social and environmental outcomes.

Utilising his diverse skills, experience and training, Gary helps organisations, leaders and team members achieve maximum performance as a professional management consultant and a dynamic facilitator and presenter. Key to Gary’s success is his passion to influence behavioural change that aligns what individuals say with what they actually do.

Gary is committed to helping organisations to really matter to their people; to their stakeholders and customers; to their community and to their environment.

With over 17 years executive management and facilitation experience, Gary has had broad exposure to the private sector, government bodies, elite sporting and educational environments. In this capacity, Gary has designed and facilitated the NAB Future Leaders Program and the NAB Mentor Program, the Leadership Development Program at AFL club Richmond, whilst performing as Keynote Speaker at the NAB TEDx TALKS and Monash University Postgraduate orientation program since 2008.

Gary Ryan is a Certified What Makes People Tick® Facilitator and has served as a Senior Assessor for the Customer Service Institute of Australia with considerable expertise in developing service excellence. Gary is also a Licensed 0-10 Relationship Management® Elite Trainer Facilitator, enabling him to assist organisations optimise performance through improved internal and external relationship management.

Gary is the Author of What Really Matters For Young Professionals! How to Master 15 Practices to Accelerate Your Career and has also written a series of e-books, What Really Matters available via http://orgsthatmatter.com .

Gary has studied extensively, initially attaining a Bachelor of Education, and a Graduate Diploma in Human Resource Management, and holds a Master of Management from Monash University.

Gary’s areas of specialty cover service excellence development, assessment and facilitation, program design and development, and relationship management development and facilitation.

Personally, Gary Ryan is happily married and a proud father of five children. He is dedicated to maintaining a healthy lifestyle and is currently in training to run his eleventh marathon.