Strategy. Change. Behavior.
Most strategies fail at the behavior layer.
I redesign that layer.
I help CEOs, CHROs, and leadership teams turn strategic direction into decisions, conversations, and behaviors that work in practice.
Clear thinking
Sharper insight. Better decisions.
Braver leadership
Lead with confidence and care.
Better conversations
Speak clearly. Build trust.
Lasting change
Behavior that makes strategy stick.
How Skylake can help
How I help leaders and organizations
Leadership development
Make leadership attainable, effective and powerful.
Build the confidence, awareness, and habits to lead your surroundings effectively with passion and authenticity.
Strategic advice & sparring
A trusted sparring partner for difficult decisions.
Make sense of complexity, test your thinking, and turn strategic ambition into clear decisions.
Training & workshops
Training designed around behavior your people need.
Build skills, learn about dynamics, work through complexity, and practice, practice, practice.
Executive coaching
Explore, challenge, experiment and grow as a leader.
For leaders who want to improve, gain clarity and act with greater impact.
ASK YOURSELF THESE QUESTIONS
What’s really holding your organization back?
Where are you losing momentum?
Momentum
Which decisions, cultural habits, and organizational dynamics are hampering your strategic ambitions?
What behaviors need to change?
Reflection
How might your own behavior and that of your leadership team be contributing to the challenges you want to solve?
What is standing still costing you?
Impact
What time, energy, or opportunities are you losing by continuing in this way?
NEED A SPECIFIC ENTERPRISE PACKAGE?
Skylake Signature Solutions
A clear starting point. Tailored to your organization.
Behavioral X-Ray
See beneath the surface.
- Eight confidential stakeholder interviews
- Qualitative analysis and summary of key behaviors and hurdles
- Leadership alignment workshop
Leadership in Motion
Make leadership happen.
- Two experiential leadership development days
- Pre- and post-work with behavioral experiments
- In-situ coaching + one 45-minute personal session each
Skylake Strategic Partner
Think sharper. Move smarter.
- Two 90-minute strategic sessions a month
- Independent sparring, with flexible support as needs emerge
- Quarterly progress and priorities review
Your sparring partner
Meet Gary Andrews
I help leadership teams make better strategic decisions, handle difficult relationships, and change how work gets done.
My work can begin with one strategy session, workshop, or coaching conversation, and grow into ongoing strategic sparring, leadership programs or talent and skill development.
Based in the Netherlands. Working with leaders and organizations worldwide.
Tell me what you are working through →What you can expect from me
My strengths
01 / COURAGE
Say the difficult thing.
02 / CONNECTION
Disarm and influence in connection.
03 / INSIGHT
See the pattern quickly.
Challenge you & your teams to do better
Make complexity clear
Turn insight into movement
WORK IN PRACTICE
Client stories and feedback
A fast-growing organization brought Gary in to improve how teams learned and worked. As leadership and cross-department dynamics surfaced, the work grew into ongoing strategic sparring.
Scale-up · continuing advisory relationship
An L&D team asked Gary to redesign assertiveness training for leaders. Participant word of mouth led to further coaching, training, and program design.
Large organization · repeat leadership work
Gary is an absolute wizard on stage.
Lead L&D Development
An amazing executive coach and sparring partner.
Managing Director
It’s very useful to have him on call for ‘anything behavioral’ that we could fix ourselves but nowhere near as fast and elegantly as he can.
CEO
He cuts through organizational fog faster than anyone I know.
COO
Exceptional facilitation under pressure. He has a kind manner, with effective influence.
HRBP
Well-done Gary. You adapted to our needs when the training took a turn. Thank you.
Team member
I am a big fan of Gary’s live sketching visuals.
Manager Operations
The Why
Making strategy work through leadership and behavior.
I focus on how leaders and teams think, speak, and act, because better behavior inside an organization changes what that organization can achieve outside it.
“Sky” is what you want to achieve. “Lake” is what happens beneath the surface: your behaviors, patterns, and unknowns. Skylake connects the two.
What I bring to every assignment
Learning
Exposure to new elements reveals unknowns. Unknowns create a need for adaptation and learning.
Motivation
Effort and action leads to motivation. Not the other way around.
Let's get to work.
Shared results
People usually need to think about this one. We achieve much more when we actively help one another succeed, across teams, silos, and reporting lines. Collaboration beats competition in organizations.
Excellence
I enjoy challenging the quality of your behavioral standards. If you are willing to listen I can help you raise those standards without losing sight of yourselves. Excellence requires this at times.
Skylake doesn’t just imagine a better world. We work towards it by helping people lead better, work better together, and turn intentions into progress.
SELECTED CLIENTS
Trusted by ambitious organizations.
A practical first step
Invite me into the room?!
Start with me as a fly on the wall in your next leadership meeting, or a focused intervention, or ongoing strategic sparring. I listen, notice the dynamics, and clarify what deserves attention.