The Mindset Advantage
Initiative and ownership at every level.
I work with leaders and teams to build a culture of innovation, initiative, and ownership.
Organizations I’ve worked with
The entrepreneurial mindset
The extraordinary ability of ordinary people.
For nearly two decades, I’ve studied the lived experience of everyday entrepreneurs, ordinary people who managed to accomplish extraordinary things.
What I found was a predictable pattern of underlying assumptions, a mindset, that was driving the behavior that enabled them to succeed, regardless of where they start.
I combined those insights with motivation research and behavioral science to create The Mindset Advantage Framework, a practical way to build initiative, innovation, and ownership at every level of an organization.
What this looks like in an organization
- People notice what others need before being asked
- Problems get solved by the people closest to them
- Ideas come from every level of the organization
- Change gets met with curiosity rather than resistance
- People lead before anyone gives them the title
For leaders, that means engagement rises and bottlenecks disappear. Teams get stronger, development moves faster, and people stay longer.
“I have my managers meeting every week and talking about entrepreneurial mindset. This is too good to be true!”
What people say
“The Entrepreneurial Mindset Advantage is a timely guide to navigating this era of rapid innovation and unlocking human potential in organizations.”
Two ways to bring this into your organization
Mindset Advantage for Emerging Leaders
A career accelerator for expanding impact.
The mindset that got you here may not get you there. A six-week live intensive that challenges high-potential people to dig deeper, think differently, and stand out, regardless of title.
Full program details →Mindset Advantage for Teams
A team accelerator for initiative, innovation, and ownership.
“Nobody makes a decision without me.” An engagement with intact teams and their leaders that builds the conditions where initiative emerges, without sacrificing reliability.
Full program details →Not ready for a full program? Start with a keynote or workshop →
Speaking
Keynotes and workshops
I speak to leadership teams, executive peer groups, and conferences about the entrepreneurial mindset as a teachable framework that can empower ordinary people to accomplish extraordinary things.
Check availabilityThe impact
A leadership team that had stopped working across its own divisions
The president brought me in for a single session with his senior team. It became a multi-year engagement. Departments that had never collaborated started identifying and solving problems together. The way of working spread into groups that were never part of the original scope, and one project alone saved the organization more than a million dollars a year.
An organization whose people outgrew its own personnel rules
Employees started solving problems nobody assigned them, and moving up faster than the existing rules were built to handle. Eventually, the rules had to be rewritten to keep pace with people who had started treating the outcome as their own.
About
It all started with a simple question…
For nearly two decades, I’ve been exploring a simple question: how do ordinary people, those with no obvious advantages, manage to get ahead? What I found was a predictable pattern of underlying beliefs and assumptions, a mindset, that set them apart, and that anyone can learn.
More about Gary →Books and podcast
The Entrepreneurial Mindset Advantage
The hidden logic that unleashes human potential.
Who Owns the Ice House?
Eight life lessons from an unlikely entrepreneur.
The Entrepreneurial Mindset Project
Conversations that explore the mindset and methods of everyday innovators, entrepreneurs and changemakers.