Gary Stokes is a coach to leaders of transformational change and President of Mountain Consulting. He has designed and conducted research to test innovative strategies for reducing poverty in partnership with national foundations, federal and state government, and local communities. As founder and CEO of Move the Mountain Leadership Center, he trained hundreds of leaders, among them a Presidential appointee and other top executives in government, education and business. He has written and spoken extensively about the profound personal and organizational challenges facing individual leaders of