#195: Helping People Navigate Career Transitions with Gary Slyman, USNA ‘81

<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">“My whole goal, whoever I coach or whoever I’m working with, is clarity. I want you to have clarity about where you’re going…I help people get better at what they do.”</span></em></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">-Gary Slyman (USNA '81)</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Gary Slyman (USNA’ 81 ) is President and Founder of Great Transitions Strategies,</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">a Leadership Consulting and Coaching practice with the mission to empower individuals and organizations to reach the next level of performance personally, professionally, and as an organization.</span> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">After serving for 23 years in the United States Marine Corps in program management and as Commanding Officer of an aviation squadron in combat, Gary led, established, and assisted in the development of multiple ethics education programs as the Deputy Director of the Ethics Center at the United States Naval Academy. Gary also led the development of a Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 12 private independent school centered on a values based leadership program where he worked as Head of Middle and Upper School.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode, we discuss:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How vision, values and strengths shape Gary’s coaching strategies</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why it’s important to love what you do</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Resource recommendations for discovering your values </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tips on how to navigate entrepreneurship</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What helped Gary succeed as a leadership coach</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Gary also tells us why he started Great Trans