Gregory Pennington, Ph.D.
CVP

Gregory Pennington, Ph.D.

Ph.D.

GA, US
Challenge and equip you to use practical and engaging applications of psychology to accelerate individual, team, and organization development and effectiveness utilizing ALL your diverse resources.
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Greg Pennington, Ph.D. is Managing Partner for Pennpoint Consulting Group (PC|G), a firm focused on increasing organization capacity and capability. We work with leaders and organizations who want to accelerate their effectiveness. In the process, we often elevate their effectiveness to another level. At PC|G we provide executive coaching, team effectiveness, and leadership development programs and presentations to Fortune 500 companies and national professional associations. We always focus on fully utilizing all your diverse resources.


Greg's approach builds on real leadership moments to link individual and organizational strengths and development areas to specific business outcomes. As a trusted advisor, he provides insight into how the organization, the team, and the individual interact that results in measurable changes in behavior. Experienced with several assessment instruments and feedback tools, he focuses on integrating a variety of inputs to identify a few critical areas of focus for development. He challenges his clients to expand the way they think and feel, and to generate options for behaviors and consequences. Always offered in context of the business, his success requires a partnership with several resources including senior business leaders and human resources professionals. It also requires realistic goals that can be demonstrated with measurable evidence of achievement.

Greg's experience includes serving as V.P. Senior Leader Development and Planning for a $40 billion global multi-industrial company. His experience includes internal and external roles in human resources, training and development, diversity and inclusion and executive coaching. 


His coaching clients include partners, senior leaders, and high potentials in public accounting firms, financial services corporations, retail, consumer goods, communications and manufacturing organizations. His executive coaching engagements include senior leaders through managers in a wide range of industries and have focused on accelerating their effectiveness. PG|G's leadership development engagements include designing and facilitating high potential and high-performance programs, developing women leaders and increasing diversity and inclusion. His team effectiveness engagements include integrating new senior teams post-merger, driving sustainable high performing teams, and assessing team strengths and development areas.


Greg holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and a B.A. degree cum laude in Psychology and Social Relations from Harvard University. He is an active member of the American Psychological Association, having served as President of the Society of Consulting Psychology. Dr. Pennington's Board experience includes Hillside Organization which provides residential and therapy support for children and families. Greg's passion pursuits include drawing and painting. He is also competitive Judo player.

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Greg Pennington, Ph.D. is Managing Partner for Pennpoint Consulting Group (PC|G), a firm focused on increasing organization capacity and capability. We work with leaders and organizations who want to accelerate their effectiveness. In the process, we often elevate their effectiveness to another level. At PC|G we provide executive coaching, team effectiveness, and leadership development programs and presentations to Fortune 500 companies and national professional associations. We always focus on fully utilizing all your diverse resources.


Greg's approach builds on real leadership moments to link individual and organizational strengths and development areas to specific business outcomes. As a trusted advisor, he provides insight into how the organization, the team, and the individual interact that results in measurable changes in behavior. Experienced with several assessment instruments and feedback tools, he focuses on integrating a variety of inputs to identify a few critical areas of focus for development. He challenges his clients to expand the way they think and feel, and to generate options for behaviors and consequences. Always offered in context of the business, his success requires a partnership with several resources including senior business leaders and human resources professionals. It also requires realistic goals that can be demonstrated with measurable evidence of achievement.

Greg's experience includes serving as V.P. Senior Leader Development and Planning for a $40 billion global multi-industrial company. His experience includes internal and external roles in human resources, training and development, diversity and inclusion and executive coaching. 


His coaching clients include partners, senior leaders, and high potentials in public accounting firms, financial services corporations, retail, consumer goods, communications and manufacturing organizations. His executive coaching engagements include senior leaders through managers in a wide range of industries and have focused on accelerating their effectiveness. PG|G's leadership development engagements include designing and facilitating high potential and high-performance programs, developing women leaders and increasing diversity and inclusion. His team effectiveness engagements include integrating new senior teams post-merger, driving sustainable high performing teams, and assessing team strengths and development areas.


Greg holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and a B.A. degree cum laude in Psychology and Social Relations from Harvard University. He is an active member of the American Psychological Association, having served as President of the Society of Consulting Psychology. Dr. Pennington's Board experience includes Hillside Organization which provides residential and therapy support for children and families. Greg's passion pursuits include drawing and painting. He is also competitive Judo player.

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Differences Make a Difference. Can you handle that?

Dr. Pennington has devoted his career to partnering with individuals and organizations to increase their effectiveness. He combines psychology, the pursuit of personal passions, identifying practical choices, and the impact of intentional effort to drive leaders to accelerate and elevate their effectiveness. He draws out personal stories, pushing leaders to gain new insights to move forward and address lingering habits that interfere with growth.
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Your Leadership Signature

Based on his book of the same title, this presentation engages participants in specific pathways to mapping their personal pursuit of influence and impact. Whether an early career professional or senior executive, accelerating and elevating leadership effectiveness is enhanced when we intentionally find ways to see options, drive for results, and increase the capabilities of others. This workshop/presentation pushes participants to draw on their own experiences to look for themes and...
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Mirrors, Crystal Balls, and Sharp Edges - Three things you can do that will make a differennce

Look in the mirror. What do you really see? Look ahead but don't forget to look behind. Make a decision and cut to the chase!

Based on sound research and practical application, this session will challenge your feelings, thoughts and behaviors to understand how to get to "your" next level. 

The steps to change your behavior and push to the next level are easy to identify. The challenge is how you fight against applying them. Of course, you need feedback, but if you only...

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Drawing out the best in you-Using your passion to pursue your excellence

There is evidence to support that when we get to use our strengths each day we are more productive, engaged, and likely to stay!

How do your passion pursuits contribute to those strengths? Using his passions of drawing and Judo, Dr. Pennington pushes participants to uncover, discover, embrace and integrate their personal passions into their professional pursuits. He shares his drawings and lessons learned from over 50 years studying judo as illusrations of how they contribute to...
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