Gary
Yamamoto is a business author who speaks to corporate leaders on Change-Age™
leadership. Gary covers the human side of leadership, with topics on change,
motivation, creativity, and creating a positive mindset.
A professional
speaker since 1972, Gary is the founder and CEO of the Self-Navigation
Institute™, a consulting and speaking firm that specializes in
professional and
personal
development.
Gary’s professional background gives him a wide variety of
experiences to draw from. He began a 22-year engineering career designing
complex communications systems. Gary worked as a civil servant for the US Navy
out of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. He designed and installed communication systems in
most of the countries of the Far East and South Pacific, including Japan,
South Korea, Taiwan, Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, and
Antarctica.
As an engineer, Gary was also the reliability and
vulnerability engineer for the Polaris, Poseidon, and Trident
warhead systems at the Naval Test Facility at Lualualei, Hawaii. After moving to Arizona, Gary was a civil servant at Fort Huachuca where he managed the testing and evaluation of the most
sophisticated communications systems for the US Army.
Gary then changed his career and founded a trade book publishing
company where he was CEO for nearly five years. Gary then sold his
share of the company to devote full time to his speaking and
consulting careers.
Even with this busy schedule, Gary has managed to find the time to author
5
books, including
his popular, Professional Power, Personal Excellence: 7
Steps to Accelerate Your Career.
Gary is an enthusiastic and dynamic speaker. His speeches
always come from his heart, sharing personal stories
and appropriate examples to
help people remove limitations and improve their performance. Gary has spoken to a wide and diverse clientele and also provides
individual consulting. Gary is a former faculty member of the University of
Arizona and is also a professional member of the National Speakers Association.
Gary’s
Change-Age™ Leadership presentations enable leaders to improve leadership
skills, increase performance, unleash creativity, and improve bottom-line
results. His presentations always reflect his passion for his work and his
message. He masterfully combines his valuable insights with humor,
story-telling, personal experiences, and audience interaction to bring home his
message of constant change and improvement.
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