Client Testimonials
- Unlike other leadership seminars I have attended, Brian’s guidance as a coach, teacher and facilitator provided me with a unique experience of emotional and intellectual self-discovery. I am looking forward to applying insights gained in this training in my relationships at home and in business.
Michael J. Kiley
President
EBM, Inc
- Brian Gast’s Quadrant Leadership Development Training is an outstanding, transformational leadership development program designed to dive deep into the psyches of participants and challenge them to analyze and question their core behaviors and beliefs. Brian’s highly-evolved emotional intelligence gives him that rare ability to quickly gain a deep understanding of his students. His high energy, enthusiasm and unadulterated interest in each participant as an individual was remarkable. He truly cared about us and wanted to see us each reach our leadership goals. Each of us left the training with a much better understanding of who we are and what fundamental beliefs motivate our behavior and guide our thinking. More importantly, at the end of the retreat,we each developed an action plan (to which we were accountable) to implement the changes that we want to utilize to improve our leadership. Brian’s program is far and away the most insightful, fun and useful (actionable) leadership program I have ever participated in; it is incisive, experiential and incredibly enlightening. It should be mandatory for every leader and I highly recommend it.
John S. Bank
Chairman and CEO
Phoenix Electric Manufacturing Co.
- If you are not willing to challenge yourself, your peers and your company then Team Alignment is not for you. This was the first step in tuning up my own performance. I am looking forward to the rest of the journey.
Timothy Kelly, Director of Warehouse Operations,
Shamrock Foods, Inc.
- Our audience of CEOs and entrepreneurs enjoyed and appreciated Brian’s presentation. Attendees found the keynote relevant, engaging and compelling. Brian’s amazing story connected with every business owner in the room. Brian’s journey is relevant both personally and professionally to everyone. I received calls from participants for weeks after Brian’s talk relating how they were applying his lessons in their lives and how profoundly they were touched by Brian’s message. Thank you. We look forward to having you back for another breakfast.
Daniel R. Meyer,
Founder of The Executive Insight Series
- ‘I loved the entire event — memorable and useful! Brian’s approach was an amazing way to get across key principles — by actions and internalizing the “lessons” versus just talking about them. Our best event yet!
Senior Manager,
Polycom, Inc.
- Brian was great. I spent most of the day way out of my comfort zone but Brian did a great job of building a trusting environment for our team to do things that we would not have ever done otherwise.
Johnny Mullins, Director of Operations,
Shamrock Foods, Inc.
- It’s Brian’s gift to understand and teach how to effectively create that state of mind where logic and intuition, science and art are mutually active. Brian’s tools are forged of his incredible personal honesty and life experiences together with his successes as a business leader. Brian’s powerful message is that for true success, we must engage all of our human aspects: body, mind and soul.
Mark Wagner, Founder,
Blue Tip Energy Management
- Our audience of CEOs and entrepreneurs absolutely enjoyed and appreciated Brian’s presentation. Attendees found the keynote relevant, engaging and compelling. Brian’s amazing story connected with every business owner in the room. Brian’s journey is relevant both personally and professionally to everyone. I received calls from participants for weeks after Brian’s talk relating how they were applying his lessons in their lives and how profoundly they were touched by Brian’s message. Thank you. We look forward to having you back for another breakfast.
Daniel R. Meyer, Founder
The Executive Insight Series
- As a facilitator, Brian was phenomenal, giving us the strength and opportunity to open up in a safe environment and share our feelings and professional goals and learn to perform at a higher level by relying on each other to achieve those goals. I left the session very energized, looking forward to experiencing challenges and opportunities in a more open and honest approach.
Gail Esler, Director, Human Resources and Administration,
Rocky Mountain Health Plans
- I was very impressed by Brian. I am generally very reluctant to participate in exercises involving a significant amount of interpersonal “risk” and Brian was excellent at keeping things comfortable while getting folks to move into the learning zone.
Senior Manager,
Polycom, Inc.
- I had spent most of my life “unexamining” myself. I was too busy piling up experience, not meaning. My coaching experience with Brian has been invaluable. Learning to be present is the best gift I’ve ever given myself. Brian’s listening skills and intuitive business acumen provide you with tools and processes that help you in everyday life, professionally and personally.
Leeann Iacino, President and CEO
ReMax Professionals, Inc.
- I have been to several “team building” events. I thought I had a good idea of what we were going to do. I could not have been more surprised. Nothing we did was easy but it all felt right. I have never connected with anyone I have worked with like I did in our session with Brian. I left with a tremendous amount of new respect and commitment to the success of my other team members. I left ready to make changes in how I lead and committed to help my other teams do the same.
Johnny Mullins, Director of Operations,
Shamrock Foods, Inc.
- Brian taught an Advanced Moderator Training for our chapter and received the highest evaluations in memory. He uses a combination of techniques to teach us how to take Forum moderating to an even higher level. Working with Brian is a powerful experience. His focus and depth of understanding make you feel as if he has stepped into your shoes in order to help you see what you can’t see.
Zane Robertson, Forum Officer,
YPO, Colorado Chapter
- Brian is an attuned and a gifted facilitator. He is centered which makes him extremely effective, trustworthy and able to get at the group and individual awareness and truth.
Kansas City Forum member
- Brian was authentic and real. He was prepared and had a good pulse on our group. Brian worked appropriately to keep us engaged and the results were excellent.
Colorado Chapter Forum member
- My YPO Forum has worked with Brian five times over the past seven years, and each time has found tremendous value in his facilitation of our retreats. Brian is an effective listener, facilitator and coach. Not only has he helped each of us grow personally, but he has left us with tools to improve the performance of our group.
Neal Simon
US Capital Chapter Forum Moderator
- Brian has successfully coached several of our senior management members. He helps his clients understand how their behavior affects their jobs, co-workers, family members and themselves. Our company has been the beneficiary of the positive changes in the people that Brian has coached. It’s Brian’s common sense and even-tempered style that has made him successful. Brian draws upon his own life experience to help his clients apply the proper perspective to their lives.
Ed Haselden, Chairman & CEO,
Haselden Construction
- I began working with Brian during a critical transition point in my life and business career, without much certainty that leadership coaching was what I really needed. I quickly realized that Brian~s deep business experience and matching personal insightfulness was exactly what I required to bridge the gap to the next phase of my personal and professional life. I derived great value from working with Brian and credit him with having a meaningful positive impact on my life.
Tom Filippini, Co-founder,
Exclusive Resorts, Inc.
- Brian Gast has been the single most influential coach/mentor in my professional career. More importantly, his wisdom and guidance has had a profoundly transformative impact on my life outside of work. The opportunity to work with Brian has truly been a gift!
Brian Watson, PhD, Global Head, Operational Excellence Capability Development
Credit Suisse
- In working with Brian I was amazed at how deep seated and firmly entrenched my preconceived beliefs were and how they were causing me to act in ways that made it difficult to find true happiness. Brian was able to allow me truly understand why I made the choices I did and what the consequences of those choices were. In doing so, he was able to illuminate for me alternative paths to a more fulfilling life that had previously been obscured. My life is infinitely richer for having worked with Brian.
Randall Mays, Vice Chairman,
Clear Channel Communications, Inc.
- Working with Brian Gast and applying his method has been instrumental for me in becoming a more effective leader and a happier family member and individual. Brian has systematically guided me to understanding myself. I have become more effective at influencing my organization and leading people to collaborate. When working with teams, Brian comes across as genuine and focused and applies a process that works. This has lead to amazing progress for my senior team in a short period of time.
George Wiebecke, Head of Global Chemical Manufacturing,
Hoffman-La Roche, Plc.
