Coaching
Confidential one-to-one work with a manager or senior leader, focused on the decisions actually in front of them. Measured against real behavior change rather than good intentions, and built to leave capability behind.
About coaching
Taking managers to the next level
Most managers were never taught how to manage.
humanfusion builds the capability your org chart already assumes you have — for first-time supervisors, senior directors, and the executives above them.
Optimizing performance
The gap between a good individual contributor and a good manager is a skill set, not a job title.
Training
Forty-six workshops across management, leadership, personal mastery, and the best business books. If the topic your team needs is not on the list, it gets built from a short conversation about what they are stuck on.
About trainingAssessment
Objective data on the people you are about to hire, promote, or develop, benchmarked and debriefed by a coach rather than filed as a report. Predicting how well your new hire is going to do is so much better than guessing.
About assessmentSolutions
Comprehensive, end-to-end bundles designed to resolve a specific business problem. Components can be modified or customized for additional flexibility.
About solutions Our approach
From a stalled manager to a measurable change
Organizations promote their strongest performers and then leave them to improvise, borrowing habits from bosses they did not particularly like. The result is predictable: avoidable turnover, conversations nobody has, and a leadership bench that looks thinner every year.
Dr. J. Gregory Gillum built MasterClass5S Management around a single benchmark — the performance of the top five percent of managers worldwide. Every engagement we run measures against something equally concrete, so you can tell whether it worked.
We assess, we coach, we train, and then we leave the capability behind. The point is not to be needed indefinitely.
You might say we are management people.
What we solve
Talent problems tend to concentrate in five places
Twenty-five engagements across those five areas. Each one starts with a specific symptom rather than a general program.
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Talent acquisition
Plan the roles you will need, then hire against evidence instead of instinct.
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Talent development and leadership
Build management capability on purpose rather than hoping promotion produces it.
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Performance management
Replace the annual review nobody trusts with conversations that change output.
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Succession planning
Know who replaces your key people, and prove it to your board.
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Employee engagement and retention
Find out why people leave while you can still do something about it.
Who you work with
Dr. J. Gregory Gillum
Greg is chief executive officer of the humanfusion group of companies and its lead executive coach and trainer. He is the creator of The Manager Lab and MasterClass5S Management, and the co-author of Blueprint for Success with Drs. Stephen R. Covey and Ken Blanchard.
He spent six years on the faculty of the Medical College of Virginia and nine years in marketing and senior management with GlaxoSmithKline. He earned his doctorate from the University of Kentucky and his coaching credentials from the Coaches Training Institute in San Rafael, California.
In their words
Client successes
Listen & watch
Greg publishes every week
A podcast working through the books and articles worth your time, and a short video series on what actually changed in talent management.
The Manager Lab
Each episode unpacks a book or article on talent management and turns it into something you can use on Monday.
This Week in Talent Management
A short weekly read on what actually changed in talent management, and what it means for the people running teams.
The Manager Lab
A free course on delegation — the skill most managers skip and then spend years compensating for. Learning to delegate correctly is what lets a manager work on priorities instead of drowning in tasks.
Take the free courseBlueprint for Success
Co-authored with Drs. Stephen R. Covey and Ken Blanchard. A collection of experiences from people who have already made the climb, for anyone who treats success as something you prepare for rather than stumble into.
See the book Next step
Tell us what is not working.
A short conversation is usually enough to tell whether coaching, training, or assessment is the right starting point.