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Gary Luehr

Empowering organizations to embrace Agile, and coaching teams to achieve great things — turning complexity into clarity and resistance into momentum.

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Gary Luehr — Agile & Leadership Coach
"Great organizations are built by great teams — and great teams are built by leaders who listen, empower, and remove obstacles."

Gary Luehr is a seasoned agile and leadership coach with over a decade of experience coaching and leading software teams in the aerospace industry. His focus is helping organizations embrace Agile methodologies and coaching teams to achieve great things — turning complexity into clarity and resistance into momentum.

Throughout his career, Gary has worked with major aerospace and defense organizations, including Northrop Grumman, where he guided distributed engineering teams through large-scale Agile transformations. His approach blends deep technical understanding with a human-centered coaching philosophy rooted in active listening, powerful questioning, and creating awareness.

As a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through the International Coaching Federation and a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC), Gary brings rigor and empathy to every engagement. His SAFe Program Consultant certification (SPC6) and Master of Science degree further ground his coaching in both agile frameworks and academic discipline.

Gary partners with executives, managers, and individual contributors alike to cultivate the mindset and practices that drive sustainable, high-performance delivery.

Current Role
Agile & Leadership Coach, Maturity Coach
Coaching Certifications
PCC — Professional Certified Coach (ICF)
CPCC — Certified Professional Co-Active Coach
Agile
SPC6 — SAFe Program Consultant (v6)
Education
Master of Science
Specialization
Agile Transformation · Team Coaching · Aerospace & Defense
Experience
10+ years · Aerospace software & enterprise Agile

How Gary works with teams

From pilot teams to full enterprise rollouts — every engagement shaped to your delivery context and maturity level.

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Agile Transformations

Guiding organizations through enterprise-scale Agile adoptions, from pilot teams to full SAFe rollouts.

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Leadership Coaching

One-on-one and group coaching for leaders seeking to amplify their influence and build empowered teams.

Team Performance

Coaching cross-functional software teams to self-organize, deliver continuously, and continuously improve.

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Aerospace & Defense

Deep domain expertise in aerospace software development, compliance-driven environments, and large systems integration.

Scaled Agile (SAFe)

SPC6-certified delivery of SAFe implementations, including PI Planning, ART launches, and Lean Portfolio Management.

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Continuous Improvement

Establishing feedback loops, metrics, and retrospection practices that make improvement a habit, not an event.

What the credentials mean

PCC
Professional Certified Coach

International Coaching Federation — demonstrates advanced coaching competency, ethics, and logged coaching hours.

CPCC
Certified Professional Co-Active Coach

The Co-Active Training Institute — rigorous experiential training in the Co-Active model, emphasizing relationship-forward coaching.

SPC6
SAFe Program Consultant (v6)

Scaled Agile, Inc. — authorized to lead SAFe transformations, train SAFe courses, and coach enterprise agile rollouts.

MS
Master of Science

Graduate-level academic foundation supporting analytical rigor and systems thinking in coaching and leadership development.

Where Gary has done this work

A decade of coaching engineering organizations where compliance, scale, and safety-critical delivery are the everyday constraints.

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Agile & Leadership Coach
Northrop Grumman

Coached software engineering teams and leadership through large-scale Agile transformations in aerospace and defense. Facilitated PI Planning events, launched Agile Release Trains, and mentored Scrum Masters and RTEs.

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Agile Coach & Transformation Lead
Aerospace Industry

Over ten years coaching and leading software teams across multiple aerospace programs, bridging compliance-heavy waterfall traditions and modern Agile delivery practices.

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Executive & Leadership Coach
Independent Practice

One-on-one and team coaching for leaders navigating complexity, developing emotional intelligence, and creating cultures of trust and psychological safety.

Ready to work with Gary?

Whether your organization is beginning its Agile journey or looking to level up existing practices — start with an honest conversation about where things stand today.