Bryan Gillette

(Posted on Tuesday, November 2, 2021)

Bryan Gillette is a former human-resources executive, an ultradistance athlete, and the president and founder of Summiting Group—a consulting firm that helps leaders and teams reach their peak performance.

For more than 25 years, he has held senior roles overseeing human resources, leadership development, and communications for companies of all sizes, leading teams of hundreds of people and managing multimillion-dollar budgets. Through Summiting Group, he has taught or consulted with leaders all over the world and facilitated executive strategic planning retreats for startups and Fortune 100 organizations.

He holds an MBA from California State University and bachelor’s degrees in Organizational

Behavior and Communications from the University of California, Davis.

As a lifelong endurance athlete, he has cycled across the US, completed a 300-mile ride in one day, and finished many 50- and 100-mile ultradistance runs. At age 47, he ran 205 miles around Lake Tahoe—8 back-to-back marathons— in 76 hours with 90 minutes of sleep.

When not traveling the world with his wife and two boys, he lives with them in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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