Tim Garmager is an executive coach, management consultant, lawyer, and founder of his own executive and personal coaching practice, Success and Happiness Coaching, LLC. In this coaching, Tim uses Positive Psychology to identify and capitalize on character strengths, personal well-being, and purposeful living. He helps his clients achieve their objectives through positivity and kindness.
Tim has been a corporate executive and management consultant in the various management and leadership disciplines of human resources management and strategy, and a Senior Partner and global practice leader at Deloitte, for over thirty years. He spent eleven years in private industry in various human resources management positions at Bank of America, the Quaker Oats Company, and IC Industries, Inc., and twenty years with Deloitte as a Human Capital Consultant. In his consulting career, Tim specialized as an Organization Performance Consultant.
Prior to his coaching career, Tim was a Corporate Executive and Management Consultant in human resources management and organizational performance. Over the last 20 years, he was a Senior Partner at Deloitte & Touche, where his internal responsibilities included the creation and management of that firm’s health care consulting practice and their human resources consulting Partner to Deloitte which has been one of Fortune Magazine’s 100 best places to work for 15 years. At his retirement from Deloitte, Tim was the Global Lead Client Services Partner to the United Nations System (UN), responsible for all consulting services delivered to the UN throughout the world, and Deloitte’s representative to the United Nations Global Compact initiative. In 2005, he led Deloitte’s pro-bona support services to the United Nations Development Program (USDP) following the Asian Tsunami.
In 1982 Tim was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to the “Grace Commission”, a presidential commission chartered to examine the cost containment opportunities across the executive branch. He was the principal author of the report to the President and received a distinguished service award from the White House for his contributions to the Commission. He has remained an active consultant to various federal and state departments and agencies, and has been affiliated with the American Enterprise Institute, the US Chamber of Commerce, and the Washington Business Group on Health. He received national security clearance during his work with the Department of Defense during its re-engineering of the Armed Forces health care system, and helped lead the merger of 23 separate agencies into the new Department of Homeland Security.
Tim was awarded an A.B. degree in European history from the at Champaign/Urbana and a J.D. degree from Loyola University of Chicago Law School, where he won the law school writing competition and elected a member of the Law Review. He is a member of the President’s Council of the , as well as the University Librarian’s Council and the Board of Advisors to the Departure of History. He is also a member of the International Coaching Federation and the American, Illinois, Chicago Bar Associations. In 2008, The Deloitte Foundation funded the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Lectures at the University of Illinois, home of the Lincoln archives, in Tim’s name to honor his retirement from the firm.
