Gary Ellenbogen

Gary Ellenbogen is an organizational and social psychologist. He has also been a technical consultant, educator and small business owner. Over a thirty-year career, this diverse but interconnected background has brought him to where he is today - motivating and guiding business owners to achieve their own business and personal visions and goals. Gary coaches business owners in the areas of business development, time and project management, team building, and creative problem solving. Gary emphasizes the fact that you’ve got to plan your work and work your plan. Strategic planning is critical in order to have a big picture view of where you want to go. Execution and attention to detail is how you get there. He does this through individual coaching together with the benefits of proven, dynamic peer group approaches. Gary’s professional experience spans the gamut: from being a small business owner himself, to working with leading edge Fortune 100 companies. As an organizational and social psychologist, he published ground-breaking research on the Social Psychology of Creativity. While teaching at the University of Vermont and the SUNY college system, he taught courses in Experimental-Design & Statistics, Introductory Psychology, Social Psychology and Motivation. Gary also developed highly specialized courses on Brainstorming and the Social Psychology of Creativity. As a consultant, Gary has been retained by leading law firms to provide time management and law office automation services, including: Akerman, Senterfitt & Eidson; Bryan Cave; Dechert Price & Rhoads; New York State Defenders Association, and the house counsel at Progressive Insurance. Gary has also worked with some of the world’s best known global companies to help them manage and implement complex multi-vendor solutions, including: Nielson Media Research, Avis/Budget, Pitney Bowes, City of New York, U.S. Department of Defense, and the Centers for Disease Control. In 2001, he worked with technology early-adopters General Electric, Sprint, Vodafone and Orange, on the implementation of enterprise email for wireless smartphones. In 2003, he developed and implemented a field service solution for the Imagistics division of Pitney Bowes that eliminated paper by moving all of the service and repair job tickets to smartphones, and in doing so, increased the productivity of their 1200 field service representatives from 7 to 10 completed jobs per day. More recently Gary served as a con