Biography of Gary Yamamoto

Gary Yamamoto is the founder and CEO of a management consulting and speaking firm that specializes in professional and personal development. Gary is an author, speaker, seminar leader, and consultant who has been speaking and consulting since 1972.

Born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, Gary's professional life gave him a wide variety of experiences. His 22 years of training in Aikido, a martial art, gave him great insight into conflict management and the control of energy.

He began his 22-year engineering career managing the design and installation of complex communications systems and facilities. During his engineering career, he was also the reliability and vulnerability engineer for the Polaris, Poseidon, and Trident warhead systems. After moving to Arizona, Gary managed the testing and evaluation of sophisticated communications equipment and systems.

Gary then founded a trade book publishing company where he was publisher and CEO for over 5 years. He eventually sold the company to devote full time to his most recent endeavor, a management and sales productivity institute. As the institute's founder and President, Gary’s presentations enable individuals and corporations to increase performance, enhance personal and professional development, and restore the passion for work and life. Gary was also a former faculty member of the University of Arizona where he taught classes in job performance and creativity.

In his speeches, Gary draws upon his vast experiences--from managing high-tech projects to working with foreign governments including Japan, Korea, China, Philippines, Australia, and New Zealand. Speaking from his heart, Gary shares personal stories and appropriate examples to help people and organizations. He has spoken to a wide and diverse clientele on the topics of change, balance, management, professional and personal development, and introduces a new dynamic for effective sales.

As a service, Gary also gives presentations to groups of cancer patients and their caregivers. His presentations deal with handling stress, developing and maintaining a positive attitude, building and maintaining energy, and fully enjoying life. His presentations are always uplifting and fun.

Gary is the author of Professional Power, Personal Excellence: 7 Integrated Steps to Accelerate Your Career , a self-improvement program on how to excel in your profession while balancing and enjoying your personal life.

Gary Yamamoto's unique and powerful presentations show people how mindset changes can directly improve their performance.

Most Requested Topics:

The Future Belongs to Those Who Prepare For It! In the Change-Age™, all members of an organization must master the art of excelling in a challenging business environment. Attendees will learn how to immediately adapt and seize the moment. They will understand how their limiting beliefs systems and habitual actions limit them and how to develop a flexible mindset. They will investigate methods to anticipate and prepare for change, and learn how to communicate to obtain the results they desire. To increase productivity, they will obtain effective techniques to tap their creative mind to obtain innovation ideas and solutions to problems. Mastering these Change-Age™ techniques will improve individual performance and productivity. Through humor, stories, and exercises, you will discover how to create the professional results attendees truly desire.

Restore the Passion: for Work and for Life! Even experts need to regain the competitive edge they once had. That edge is passion. Passionate people are productive. They naturally practice teamwork and provide better customer service. They handle stress easier, exhibit a more positive attitude, and improve relationships. Passion always improves performance and increases productivity. This presentation will help people empower themselves, balance their lives, and restore the passion they once had. Through humor, meaningful stories, and effective exercises, attendees can practice simple yet profound adjustments in their actions, attitude, and points of view that will create a vast improvement in their enjoyment and performance. Now is the time to help people regain control and energize their careers! With passion, everything becomes possible.

The Tragic Decline of Innovation: How Busy Leaders Can Restore Creativity: In today’s highly competitive business environment, it is becoming extremely difficult to stand out in the minds of potential customers. Uniqueness means being able to continually exceed your customer’s expectations. This mind-opening program will provide a Change-Age™ leader with a systematic method to unleash the creative potential resident in everyone. Develop effective techniques to trigger creative ideas, solve unique problems, and streamline any process. Identify and utilize your people’s innovative ideas to continually improve price, quality, and customer service. The bottom-line is simple--without innovation, nothing improves!

Does Your Team Yawn When You Walk Into the Room? Lee Iaccoca, former CEO of Chrysler Corporation, said, “Management is nothing more than motivating people.” It would be naïve to think that each employee arrives each morning, ready to give a 100% and will continue to do so for the rest of the day. In an environment of rapid change, Change-Age™ leaders must keep themselves and their people motivated. This fast-moving presentation provides attendees with the 5 basic motivators and when to use these to get the results they desire. They will learn how to communicate motivation to employees which will improve teamwork, attitude, and manage stress.