Gary Blake
Gary Blake P.Eng, MBA
Gary is President and CEO of Blake Training & Consulting Inc. He has many years of managerial and consulting experience in manufacturing, logistics, retail & wholesale, and head office environments. Gary has held positions such as Lean Six Sigma Champion, Director of Organizational Development, Manager Corporate Training, Production Manager, and Director of Corporate Engineering. He is a Six Sigma black belt, successfully implementing Lean Six Sigma projects in office and manufacturing settings. With 26 years of Organizational Development experience as a change manager, Gary is action-oriented to deliver results. His comfortable facilitation style is uniquely successful at motivating front line workers to achieve both personal and organizational goals.
With a Bachelor of Engineering degree from McGill University and a Master of Business Administration degree from York University, Gary is a sessional course director who has taught various third year Human Resource Management topics in the HRM program at York University since 2003, with his main focus being Occupational Health & Safety. He was the winner of the 2013-2014 Teaching Excellence Award – School of HRM in the Sessional/Contract category.
He is a past Vice Chair and Chair of Governance Committee of the Board of Directors of the Ontario Service Safety Alliance – a safe workplace association funded by the Ontario WSIB, and a Panelist in a Foundation administering training program applications for Provincial and/or Federal funding to match company funds supporting innovation and globally competitive manufacturing excellence in Ontario.
In his personal time, Gary is a part-time Church organist & choir director, and pretends to believe that he is still a great beer league hockey goalie.