Everett Gutierrez Jr. is a Consultant with Highland Performance Solutions. With over 15 years of experience, Everett brings a people-centered and results-driven approach to leadership development, executive coaching, and organizational effectiveness. He is known for helping leaders navigate growth and change while strengthening executive presence, resilience, and team performance.

Everett has trained and coached more than 30,000 professionals across Fortune 100 and 500 companies, academic institutions, and global organizations in the United States, Europe, South Africa, and Canada. His areas of expertise include executive coaching, leadership enrichment, instructional design, and strategic consulting, with a focus on helping leaders build clarity, authenticity, and sustainable impact. Clients value Everett’s personalized and transformative coaching style, which integrates behavioral insight, cultural intelligence, and strategic thinking.

Everett has partnered with organizations across a range of industries, including financial services, insurance, manufacturing, distribution, professional services, education, and the public sector. His client experience includes working with organizations such as Discover, KeHE Food Distributors, ManpowerGroup, Allstate, Northwestern Mutual, Allegis Group, Denso, the United States Postal Service, Oshkosh, Harley-Davidson, and Roosevelt University.

In addition to his consulting work, Everett serves as an adjunct professor at North Park University and is a sought-after speaker on leadership, perseverance, and transformational growth. His contributions have been recognized through multiple honors, including being named a Chicago Impact Leader and receiving the Reflecting Excellence Award. Everett is also the author of Chosen: A Call to Leading with Purpose, which earned the Inspirational Author of the Year award.

EDUCATION • Master of Arts in Nonprofit Management from North Park University • Executive Master of Arts in Leadership from Georgetown University • Bachelor of Arts in Public Relations and Advertising and Bachelor of Arts in Organizational Leadership and Development from Loyola University