Gary Lospaluto is the Founder and President of Collaborative Action, an organizational consulting and training firm.  Over the last 25 years, Gary has developed, field-tested, and installed Collaborative Action Technology (CAT), an organizational change and learning system that maximizes individual and organizational effectiveness, assures successful implementation, and measures bottom-line impact.  The focus of his work is to develop practical organizational learning tools that maximize individual and team development, assure human dignity, and integrate ethics into daily organizational practice to create new levels of effectiveness and sustainable competitive advantage.

Using CAT, Gary has redesigned and accelerated the effectiveness of applications such as: strategic planning, executive coaching and decision- making, leadership, team development, conflict resolution, customer relations, new product/service development, and educational and consulting methods.

He has worked with boards of directors, all levels of management, and individual contributors in the private and public sectors.  Clients have included Amoco Oil, AT&T, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, DuPont Dow Elastomers, Gartner Research, Hewlett-Packard, Motorola, Owens Corning, Proctor & Gamble, Schering Plough, Schoolwires Inc., SCT, State of Maine, Tellabs, The Vanguard School, and Verizon, as well as an array of smaller firms in telecommunications, health care, insurance, education, and consulting.

Gary has held positions in marketing and sales in the high-technology industry in such firms as Hewlett Packard and Unisys (Burroughs). 

Gary received a master's degree from Harvard University, where he studied and worked with Dr. Chris Argyris, James Bryant Conant Professor Emeritus of Education and Organizational Behavior, one of the founders of organizational learning.  Gary’s graduate work focused on developing new methods to assist clients to uncover previously undetected gaps in their implementation of organizational change and learning systems, while assuring quality and bottom-line impact.

Gary has lectured at a number of institutions including: Harvard University, Purdue University, and The Institute for Management Consulting, along with various governmental agencies.