Donald J. Glacy is a founder, executive coach, and culture architect who helps senior leaders build healthy organizations where clarity, accountability, and leadership alignment drive sustainable performance. He is the Founder and Chief Mentor of Purpose Factory, a leadership development platform designed to equip business owners and executives to intentionally design both their organizations and their lives.
Over the course of his career, Don has built six businesses and has coached leaders of seven-, eight-, and nine-figure companies across multiple industries. His work reflects a core conviction shared with Excellent Cultures: organizational health precedes organizational performance. Strategy matters—but culture determines whether strategy is executed consistently and sustained over time.
Don specializes in helping CEOs and leadership teams translate values into operating systems. He works with leaders to cut through noise, clarify direction, strengthen ownership, and build cultures where accountability and execution are embedded—not enforced. His coaching is structured, disciplined, and practical, focused on measurable outcomes while developing leaders who can scale without sacrificing health, conviction, or purpose.
Through Purpose Factory, Don leads executive leadership groups and coaches business owners in life design, business architecture, and culture formation. His approach helps leaders move from reactive management to intentional leadership, creating organizations that are resilient, aligned, and built to endure.
In addition to his private-sector work, Don advises nonprofit and mission-driven organizations, contributes to leadership development initiatives domestically and internationally, and serves in civic leadership roles within his community.
Don is known for his systems-level thinking, steady leadership presence, and ability to bring clarity where complexity has stalled progress. He believes that when leaders are aligned, cultures become healthy—and when cultures are healthy, organizations thrive.
“Don’s ability to cut through the noise and help me truly understand what I wanted from my business and why I own a business was invaluable.”
Kyle McCaw, Broker/Owner, McCaw Property Management
“Working with Don has been a huge help to our business and has given me way more margin in my life. Our business grew over 30% in a challenging industry, and I attribute a lot of that growth to the systems Don set up with us.”
Michael Kilpatrick, Founder, Growing Farmers & Small Farm University
