George E. Sweazey, MBA

Mr. Sweazey is the president of GES Professional Development, Inc. (GESPD).  His focus is on leadership education, one-to-one coaching, and team development for health care executives from a variety of professional backgrounds. Formerly, he was one of the founding partners of the Executive Development Group (EDG), a leadership development and consulting firm located in Greensboro, North Carolina, Houston, Texas and Columbus, Ohio.  He has taught at The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, and at the Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University.

Before co-founding EDG, Mr. Sweazey spent 12 years at the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, North Carolina and has worked with more than 5,000 mid to upper-level managers. At the Center he was responsible for various aspects of leadership development including needs assessment, program design, leadership training, and one-on-one executive coaching.  He was also the manager of the “Creating Team Innovation” program, which focused on custom-designed programs for executive teams.

He was also a founding partner of Triangle Associates, a consulting firm that focuses exclusively on the organizational development and leadership development needs of health care practitioners.  He has done consulting and training for nurses, physicians, dentists, veterinarians, and pharmacists.  He is a senior fellow at the Center for the Health Professions at the University of California, San Francisco, and is currently active in designing and conducting the Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellows Program and the California HealthCare Foundation Health Care Leadership Program.  He has provided leadership training and one-to-one coaching for executives in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Europe, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, China and Australia.

Mr. Sweazey has an MBA in Financial Management from George Washington University.