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Meet Gary Ross
Gary M. Ross is president of INSIDE COMMS, a training, coaching and consulting firm focused on internal communication. Over his 30+ year career, Gary has worked as a consultant, corporate executive and Emmy-nominated broadcast journalist. With INSIDE COMMS, Gary works to make corporate life better by advancing the way organizations and their people communicate with one another.
Gary's recent engagements have included consulting and coaching CEOs, C-level executives and internal communications teams on corporate transformations and integrations, M&A and change. His experience reaches from the upper ranks of the FORTUNE 500 to small non-profits and academia.
Gary is also a principal at thoughtLEADERS, LLC, a leadership development training, coaching and consulting firm conducting programs at client locations around the world. Based on real-world experience, he specializes in change management, change communications and strategic thinking concepts and processes that clients can implement immediately in their organizations.
Prior to his training, coaching and consulting work, Gary served as vice president of corporate communications for Fortune Brands Home & Security, the parent company of Moen, Master Lock and other familiar consumer brands. He also led corporate communications at CDW, a leading provider of technology products and services to business, government, education and healthcare. Gary also led corporate public relations for Chicago-based Hyatt Hotels Corporation. Previously, Gary held a variety of public relations positions, including a post in the Department of University Relations at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill.
Before joining the PR profession, Gary worked as a reporter and substitute anchor for WCBD-TV in Charleston, S.C., where he was nominated for an Emmy Award in investigative journalism, traveled overseas with the U.S. military and reported from the eye of Category Four Hurricane Hugo. He began his career at the former WRKL-AM in the New York City area as an anchor and reporter.
Gary has been a guest speaker on communications and change for such organizations as the Healthcare Businesswomen's Association, PRWeek (UK), Public Relations Society of America, Federal Communicators Network, Northwestern University, DePaul University, The Conference Board, and the Great Place to Work Institute (authors of FORTUNE magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” list).
Gary is a member of the International Association of Business Communicators, the Association of Change Management Professionals, and the Public Relations Society of America. He is also the public address announcer for Northwestern University football and men’s basketball in the Big Ten Conference.
Gary holds a Bachelor of Science in journalism degree from the Medill School at Northwestern University. He and his family reside in the Chicago area.
Gary's recent engagements have included consulting and coaching CEOs, C-level executives and internal communications teams on corporate transformations and integrations, M&A and change. His experience reaches from the upper ranks of the FORTUNE 500 to small non-profits and academia.
Gary is also a principal at thoughtLEADERS, LLC, a leadership development training, coaching and consulting firm conducting programs at client locations around the world. Based on real-world experience, he specializes in change management, change communications and strategic thinking concepts and processes that clients can implement immediately in their organizations.
Prior to his training, coaching and consulting work, Gary served as vice president of corporate communications for Fortune Brands Home & Security, the parent company of Moen, Master Lock and other familiar consumer brands. He also led corporate communications at CDW, a leading provider of technology products and services to business, government, education and healthcare. Gary also led corporate public relations for Chicago-based Hyatt Hotels Corporation. Previously, Gary held a variety of public relations positions, including a post in the Department of University Relations at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill.
Before joining the PR profession, Gary worked as a reporter and substitute anchor for WCBD-TV in Charleston, S.C., where he was nominated for an Emmy Award in investigative journalism, traveled overseas with the U.S. military and reported from the eye of Category Four Hurricane Hugo. He began his career at the former WRKL-AM in the New York City area as an anchor and reporter.
Gary has been a guest speaker on communications and change for such organizations as the Healthcare Businesswomen's Association, PRWeek (UK), Public Relations Society of America, Federal Communicators Network, Northwestern University, DePaul University, The Conference Board, and the Great Place to Work Institute (authors of FORTUNE magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” list).
Gary is a member of the International Association of Business Communicators, the Association of Change Management Professionals, and the Public Relations Society of America. He is also the public address announcer for Northwestern University football and men’s basketball in the Big Ten Conference.
Gary holds a Bachelor of Science in journalism degree from the Medill School at Northwestern University. He and his family reside in the Chicago area.