COMPANY CEO

Gary Recchion is the principal at Recchion and Associates, Inc., a full-service career management, training, coaching and outplacement company in Phoenix, Arizona, where he inspires success, purpose and passion in his coaching, writing and speaking.

Gary has more than 20 years of experience in global career development, human resource management and consulting, including on-boarding, employee retention and engagement programs, managing personal change and career transition.

He has coached and taught thousands of individual and corporate clients across every level and discipline to take ownership of their work and life and to connect with their passion. Municipalities, universities, and businesses of all sizes including Fortune 500 companies such as Honeywell, American Express and IBM have benefited from Gary’s years of experience and expertise.

He has designed, written and facilitated corporate career programs to motivate and empower individuals and retain employees, inspiring personal attitudes of success and purpose, and creating organizational climates that value employees and their development through both of the highly effective Personal Career Leadership™ and Five Principles of Career Success™ workshop series.

His team developed a world-class career development program for Honeywell Aerospace,  establishing and managing corporate career centers for over a decade used by nearly 10,000 employees each year. Gary’s initiative was immediately recognized as Malcolm Baldrige based “Best Practice” and a corporate model worldwide. Gary designed and facilitated a career development training program delivered to leadership teams in Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong.

Gary’s background also includes five years in career management/transition as a consultant and trainer supporting major Southwest corporate clients and twelve years with the Saudi Aramco where he managed international career development and training programs throughout North America and Saudi Arabia.

Gary has self-published a book entitled, “The 10 Success Strategies to Finding the ‘Right’ Work,” is a featured partner and writer for HRGuru.com, ManagerLink, and SelfGrowth.com and has authored numerous journal and magazine articles.

His undergraduate studies were completed at Waynesburg College, and additional graduate work was done at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania. Gary now resides in Phoenix, Arizona with his wife and two sons. He lives his passion by teaching and encouraging individuals to understand principles of career success, purpose and passion.