Bryan Gillette
Founder of Summiting Group and faculty at California State University. Executive coach and leadership consultant who designed his career around optionality, family, and freedom.
About Bryan
Bryan Gillette spent three decades building other people's organizations while quietly building the conditions for something harder to find: freedom. From Franklin Templeton to Documentum, he took on leadership roles most people would have held for life—and used each one as a stepping stone toward optionality.
In his early 40s, disciplined financial choices and deliberate career design gave him the power to walk away from corporate life entirely. No crisis. No burnout. A choice. He founded Summiting Group, began teaching leadership at Cal State, and rebuilt his life around work, family, community, and adventure that actually mattered to him.
His message to every leader he coaches: define success before someone else defines it for you.
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