Greg Coker’s been a student of leadership most of his life and a practitioner for more than 40 years. He’s held senior-level leadership positions in three Fortune 500 companies and a four-year stint as a government regulator. He’s been hired, fired, promoted, demoted, elected, voted out, a “high-potential” and on performance plan. He’s been rightsized, downsized, laid off, ranked, yanked, overrated, underappreciated, engaged and detached.

He's been a staff member not listened to and the out-of-town consultant with a briefcase who said the same thing and saved the day. If he were a menu item at Waffle House, he would be sliced, diced covered, smothered and scattered. Bottom line, He’s seen and experienced it all. But once the organizational dust settled, the pillars that held it all together emerged in the form of his latest book, The Five Pillars of Leadership.

He is also the author of Building Cathedrals: The Power of Purpose, Soft Skills Field Manual and Healing the Wounds: Forgiveness & Reconciliation in the Workplace. He received both his undergraduate (speech communications & psychology) and masters (organizational communications) from Western Kentucky University. His clients have included AT&T, Houchens Industries, General Motors, McDonalds, Western Kentucky University, Caterpillar, University of Kentucky, University of Louisville, Centre College, Vanderbilt University, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, TVA, Duke Energy, Trade Associations and hundreds of high-performance individuals who benefit from his personal coaching.