Gary Langenwalter has consulted to hundreds of organizations on four continents. His passion is
leadership coaching and organizational health. He holds an MBA and an MTS.
Gary is a native Oregonian and a BeavDuck (freshman at OSU, graduated from the U of O), who returned
to Oregon in 2004 after many years in the upper Midwest and New England. He and his wife Janet
reside in McMinnville. Their two sons and two grandchildren live in Portland and Vancouver.
Gary is chairman of the board of Juliette’s House, a child abuse intervention center in McMinnville. He is
vice chair of the McMinnville Planning Commission. He is active in Oregon Organization Development
Network and the McMinnville Chamber of Commerce, where he served as an ambassador for 3 years.
Fair warning – he enjoys bad puns…

Retaining Your Best and Brightest

How do you retain your best and your brightest? And how do you attract the best and the brightest?
Good news – money is not the primary motivating factor. We’ll briefly explore the true cost of
employee turnover and the causes of employee turnover. Then we’ll collectively brainstorm ways to
retain and attract employees.
At the end of this interactive conversation, Gary will distribute a list of 30 potential ways to retain and
attract employees, many of which are discussed in more detail in blogs.