Tim Lavery

Bursting with a desire to understand what you want to do and how you’d like to do it, Tim has been bringing cohesion and focus to organizations for more than a quarter century.   Starting his career in the management consulting world, Tim cut his teeth building communication plans for Federal government clients.  While supporting a new technology rollout, Tim observed that even an objectively perfect solution would fall flat absent consideration of the people within the organization, their perspective, and their understanding of the future and their place in it.  This set the course of his career, which would focus on the human side of organizations through the lenses of change management, team effectiveness and strategy.

After almost 20 years in consulting, Tim took an internal organization development role at a global asset management firm, supporting leaders in the United States, Europe and Asia.  As Tim helped them adapt to change and work together towards shared outcomes, he realized that he was most effective not when he told his clients what to do but when he asked them the right questions in the right ways to help them discover the path forward themselves.   This led Tim to pursue a certification in transformational coaching, which opened up a new model for supporting individuals and groups.

In 2020 Tim formed an independent advisory and consulting practice called Wrench & Socket, which reflects his identity as an incorrigible hands-on gearhead and his view that organizations, while human and complex, can be approached as systems:  with the right tools, elements that are stuck or misaligned can be adjusted to elevate the performance of the whole.  Tim began supporting Square360 in 2022 to help define and operationalize a plan for growth.  He quickly became part of the family and now serves in an ongoing role as fractional Chief Operating Officer, delivering organizational, operational and strategy expertise to enable the firm to do what it does best for its clients while working effectively towards its goals for growth and diversification. 

Tim is a graduate of Loyola University Baltimore with a major in journalism and minor in sociology.  Tim holds change management certifications from Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, LaMarsh Global, and ProSci.  He completed the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business Strategic Organization Design Workshop and is a certified practitioner of numerous organizational assessment tools.  Tim lives in Chestertown, Md., with his wife and son.  He owns a silly number of old cars (he thinks there are 10 but could be forgetting a few) and is running out of room to store them.