Strategy. Change. Behavior.

Most strategies fail at the behavior layer.
I redesign that layer.

Strategy sessions, leadership development, training, and coaching. I help people understand what needs to change and put it into practice.

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Better dynamics. Stronger leadership.

Clear thinking

Guidance you can work with.

Braver leadership

Lead with confidence and care.

Better conversations

Interact better and build excellence.

Lasting change

New behaviors that support your strategies.

How Skylake can help

How I help organizations

Leadership development

Leadership skills for real working situations.

Develop the confidence, awareness, and habits to lead through difficult dynamics.

Typical situations: New leadership roles · strategic thinking · difficult conversations · rebuilding trust · Manager vs Leader · building a sustainable leadership team

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Strategic advice & sparring

A sparring partner to think and decide with.

Make sense of complexity, test your thinking, and turn strategic ambition into practical decisions.

Typical situations: Strategy formulation · C-suite effectiveness · Implementation of strategic directions

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Training & workshops

Practical training, built around your valued people.

Build communication skills, strengthen team dynamics, and practice what working better actually looks like.

Typical situations: Assertiveness · team dynamics · skills deep dives · practice labs · talent development

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Executive coaching

Individual coaching for leaders.

Work through the questions you cannot always take to your team. Personal, direct, and grounded in your reality.

Typical situations: Role pressure · complex relationships · IQ, EQ and mindset · power dynamics · tackling blind spots and pitfalls · advancing your ambitions

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Gary Andrews · Skylake

Your sparring partner

Meet Gary Andrews

I help leaders and teams with strategic decisions, working relationships, and the activities that affect how people work together.

My work ranges from a single strategy session or workshop to ongoing coaching and advice, to large programs and leadership tracks. I listen closely, ask direct questions, and help you turn ideas into practical changes.

Based in the Netherlands. Working with leaders and organizations across the globe.

Tell me what you are working through →

What you can expect from me

My strengths

I train & give feedback without sounding harsh

I disarm & connect people in any group size

I listen and share creative ideas at speed

I challenge you & your teams to do better

I explain complex things in clear & simple terms

I implement strategies and programs end-to-end

WORK IN PRACTICE

Client stories and feedback

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A scale-up brought Gary in to improve how it learned and worked. The engagement grew into ongoing strategic sparring on leadership, behavior, and difficult dynamics.

Scale-up · ongoing partnership

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An L&D team asked Gary to redesign its behavioral program for leaders. Strong participant demand led to further training, program design and coaching.

Large organization · leadership programs

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Gary is an absolute wizard on stage.

Lead L&D Development

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An amazing executive coach and sparring partner.

Managing Director

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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

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He cuts through organizational fog faster than anyone I know.

COO

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Exceptional facilitation under pressure.

HRBP

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Well-done Gary. You adapted to our needs when the training took a turn. Thank you.

Team member

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I am a big fan of Gary’s live sketching visuals.

Manager Operations

The Why

Making strategy work through leadership and behavior.

I dedicate my work to improving how people lead and work together, because changing what happens within leaders and employees can change the world around us for the better.

Sky

Lake

“Sky” is what you want to achieve. “Lake” is what happens beneath the surface: your behaviors, patterns, and unknowns. Skylake helps connect the two.

What I bring to every assignment

Exposure→

Learning

Exposure to challenging environments creates unknowns, which creates learning and new possibilities.

Effort→

Motivation

Action creates motivation. Not the other way around.
Let's get to work.

Goodness→

Shared results

Collaboration above competition in the world of behavior.
Example: what if silos actually helped each other, and reporting lines did not stand in the way of genuine assitence?

Higher standards→

Excellence

I don't settle for medium effectiveness, and I dislike 'good enough'.
I will hold you to that same standard when we work together.

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.

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