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
Lead clearly when the pressure is real.
Build the confidence, awareness, and habits to lead through difficult dynamics.
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 the behavior your people need.
Build communication skills, strengthen team dynamics, and practice what better work looks like.
Executive coaching
Confidential thinking space for leaders.
Work through leadership pressure, power dynamics, and relationships you cannot discuss with your team.
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
Create trust across groups.
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.
Head of People & Culture
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
New environments reveal what you not yet know. That exposure creates learning, new ideas and possibilities.
Motivation
Action creates motivation. Not the other way around.
Let's get to work.
Shared results
People achieve much more when they actively help one another succeed, across teams, silos, and reporting lines. Collaboration beats competition in organizations.
Excellence
I question “good enough” and help people raise their standard without losing sight of their goals.
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
Bring me into the room.
Start with a leadership meeting, a focused intervention, or ongoing strategic sparring. I listen, notice the dynamics, and clarify what deserves attention first.