Gaylyn Sher-Jan is a Principal Consultant with Tollefson Coaching. Gaylyn has over 20 years of results producing experience in accelerating organizations to success. Her expertise and focus is on designing and facilitating strategic meetings for Tollefson Coaching clients.
International Strategic Planning and Business Management Experience
Gaylyn’s experience spans small to large enterprises across a wide variety of industries including financial services, manufacturing, high tech, healthcare, scientific research and non-profit. Additionally, Gaylyn’s experience includes environments from start-ups to ‘bricks and mortar.’ She’s earned her business skills from highly successful line leadership experiences and staff experience as a Vice President HR, both domestically and internationally. Her international experience includes work in Holland, Spain, England and as an expatriate in Ireland.
Clients value and appreciate Gaylyn’s direct line experience providing deep business knowledge for clients coupled with hands on work in organization development, strategic planning, facilitating, and training. She has been facilitating and designing strategic planning and business management off-sites for over 14 years. Hewlett-Packard executives relied on her change management expertise to transform the existing, passive culture and create a new, agile culture during the Compaq acquisition. Oregon Health Sciences University brought her in for their monolithic strategic change management effort implementing the complex and ever-changing Presidential HIPAA requirements. In support of her expertise Gaylyn brings a suite of time tested and impactful tools for individuals; she is qualified in the Myers-Briggs Indicator to Step II, DiSC and the highly acclaimed Hogan Leadership Assessment tool.
Gaylyn hold’s a Bachelor of Science degree in MIS and started her career as a systems analyst with Hewlett-Packard. Before joining Tollefson Coaching & Associates, Gaylyn served in the top human resources role for the $1B personal printing business of Hewlett-Packard in Vancouver, Washington. She has been an Executive Council Board Member and HR Committee Chair with TechAmerica and serves on the Board of Directors for Boys and Girls Aid.
What Our Clients Say
“You’ve made me a better executive – and I see the impact you’ve made to my team. Thank you!”
─ Larry Lesley, Senior Vice President, Hewlett-Packard Inkjet Printers
“Gaylyn provided a clear roadmap for my success. Throughout the engagement, Gaylyn pulled from her own vast experiences, utilized well-respected tools/third party studies to help build the necessary “knowledge base” I would need to succeed in the workplace. Working with Gaylyn one on one has resulted in a more efficient and effective working relationship with my employees and other levels of management, thereby enhancing my communication and leadership ability.”
─ Jim Salita, Americas Controller, Tektronix
