As a founder of Human Partners, Gabriel helps senior level executives craft organizations where whole people show up. Together, they create high performance cultures of purpose, trust, and belonging.
Over the past fifteen years, Gabriel has provided coaching and training for more than one thousand purpose-led leaders and world-class change agents, including founders and board members, and c-suite executives and directors from more than 150 major brands. In the midst of the extraordinary social and environmental challenges of our time, he came to see that when people experience their work as a calling, they come alive and contribute to the flourishing of all life around them.
Gabriel is a cofounder of Byron Fellowship, and also works with Converge for Impact to build networks of organizations that take on challenges greater than any single organization can solve alone. Through Byron Fellowship, Human Partners, and Converge, he works to cultivate the pursuit of purpose at the individual, organizational, and institutional scale.
Together with Jason Jay, Director of the MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative, Gabriel released his first book in 2017, Breaking Through Gridlock – The Power of Conversation in a Polarized World, to support people in sharing about what matters most. The book is an international bestseller, with over 160,000 copies sold in five languages, and was among Amazon’s top ten printed books sold in China in 2018. Breaking Through Gridlock pedagogy has been used to train social and environmental change leaders at MIT, Yale, Stanford, Cornell, and Cambridge.
Gabriel is currently writing The Self-determined Organization – Toward a Humanistic Theory of the Firm and most recently supported his Converge colleagues in publishing Impact Networks – Create Connection, Spark Collaboration, and Catalyze Systemic Change.
Gabriel holds a B.S. in physics and an M.S. in ecological system engineering from Purdue University, and a Ph.D. in leadership and sustainability from Yale University. He lives in Seattle with his wife, Sarah, and their daughters, Ariana and Madeleine—with whom he shares a mission of creating unconditional love and powerfully contributing to others.