Greg Pennington, PhD

“Leadership is not revealed in vision statements, but in the everyday choices leaders make when pressure, power, and people collide.”

Greg Pennington, Ph.D., is Managing Partner of Pennpoint Consulting Group and a recognized voice on leadership effectiveness. With experience across corporate HR, global consulting, and executive development—including leadership roles at Johnson Controls and consulting positions with Hay Group and RHR International—he helps leaders convert good intentions into measurable results. His approach centers on “Leadership Effectiveness Moments”: the everyday decisions, assumptions, and interactions that shape performance, trust, and culture. He delivers executive coaching, high potential development, team effectiveness workshops, and inclusion interventions for clients in global finance, healthcare, professional services, higher education, and nonprofits. Pennington is the author of Your Leadership Signature and holds a Ph.D. from UNC–Chapel Hill and a B.A. cum laude from Harvard. An APA Fellow, he founded Consulting Psychologists of Color.