Our mission at GA | Ultra Leadership is to work with leaders and teams who want to go beyond usual and ordinary to engage, empower, and activate people and teams to shape the future consciously and confidently.
We’ve developed an approach to coaching and advising executives, developing people and teams, and designing and facilitating organizational change that’s been tested and proven across industries and geographies and delivers real outcomes.
We firmly believe that to win today, every leader, team, and organization must get exceptional at the work of navigating and leading through change: enabling teams and people to quickly transition to new ways of engaging and contributing to ensure peak performance, effectiveness, and sustained competitive advantage.
Meet our people
Dr. Greg Giuliano is an advisor and executive coach to senior executives and teams all over the world, designing change leadership and team development strategies to lead organizational transformation. His mission is to help leaders and teams grow their capacity to enable positive disruption for markets, organizations, teams, and individuals.
Greg is the author of the Bestselling books, Coaching for (a) Change: How to Engage, Empower, and Activate People, The Next Normal: Transform Your Leadership, Your Team, and Your Organization, the #1 Amazon Bestseller Ultra Leadership: Go Beyond Usual and Ordinary to Engage Others and Lead Real Change and The Hero’s Journey: Toward a More Authentic Leadership.
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Greg Giuliano
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AAA
AbbVie
Blue Shield of California
BMC Software
Cisco
EY
Humana
Intel
Kaiser Permanente
Marvell
M&T Bank
NW Farm Credit Services
Pharmacyclics
Red Lion Hotels
Riverbed Technology
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DUNCAN DRECHSEL
Duncan Drechsel brings a significant depth of operating expertise with high-growth and emerging businesses as context to his work with clients including general management, marketing, strategy and product management.
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AAA
Bank of the West
BMC Software
Cisco
Clorox
Eventbrite
The Hewlett Foundation
Intersect Power
LinkedIn
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DAVE DRESDEN
Dave Dresden partners with leaders and teams across industry verticals to build leadership capacity and drive transformation. He works with senior executives, high potential mid career leaders and intact business units, bringing a unique; in-the-trenches perspective honed through 25 years of first-hand experience in corporate leadership roles.
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AAA
Aid for AIDS
BMC Software
Cisco
Goodwill
Goldrich Kent
Google
Mattell Inc.
Moffate & Nichol Engineering
Recurrent Energy
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ELISA FRENCH
Elisa French brings the learning and wisdom of over two decades working in the domains of Executive Coaching, Strategic Management, Organizational and Learning Development.
“Aligning heart, mind, and hands to lead and achieve positive change.”
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Autodesk
Deloitte
EY
Henkel
Initial
Johnson & Johnson
KMPG
Marriott
Metro Group
Nokia
SAP
Vorwek
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sina johnson
Sina Johnson works with professionals who want to identify and activate the path for change. Her 20 years of operations experience in human resources, accounting, marketing, sales and project management provides her a deep understanding of her clients’ world.
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AAA American
Chemet
Blue Shield of California
Energy Recovery
Idaho Forest Group
iSpecimen
M&T Bank
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Kristina Mangelsdorf
After 25+ successful years as a people leader in Fortune 50 and 200 companies, Kristina now helps the next generation of leaders achieve career success and fulfillment. As a certified executive and career coach, she helps executives and rising executives strengthen leadership skills and presence, inspire teams, communicate with impact, and deliver results, all while doing work they love and staying true to themselves.
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Kristina works with clients at…
American Red Cross
Biogen
BMC Software
Grant Thornton LLP
M&T Bank
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Alex Patient
Alex brings an “in-the-trenches” perspective honed through over 20 years of first-hand experience in corporate leadership roles. He has worked in the domains of risk management, strategy consulting, and data analytics, across financial services and energy sectors. His career highlights have included leading the Performance Insight division for the FTSE100 Natwest plc through Covid, and being the risk specialist to support the Financial Services Authority’s Risk Managing Director through the financial crisis of 2008-09.
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Accenture
AgeUK
Citibank
Bank of England
Crosslight
Datakind
Diageo
Financial Conduct Authority
Hope & Homes for Children
Mansfield Building Society
M&T Bank
Natwest plc
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Business as usual is over.
Ordinary won’t cut it.
It’s time for Ultra Leadership. Listen to the Ultra Leadership podcast to gain insight into how others lead and foster growth for themselves and their teams. The show airs on the first and third Thursday each month. Inside each episode, Greg and his guests talk about what matters most to leaders like you, including: