Clare had spent thirty years in a wide variety of operations and executive responsibilities in a corporate 25 company. Starting out as an engineer with GTE(now Verizon), Clare became a construction foreman early on, a job he still favors, and held a variety of other management assignments before becoming a division operations manager. In 1979 he was named Vice-President for GTE Northwest with responsibilities for public and governmental affairs. In 1986 Clare was named to a similar position in GTE North, a subsidiary of 28,000 employees, three times the size of his previous assignment. Clare took on the challenge of not only leading the North business unit but led GTE's management of change initiative. That work became the cornerstone of his strategic consulting practice when he left GTE in 1994. His strategic consulting practice has included such clients as PacifiCorp, NALCO, Covance, STI Inc., Onex Corporation, State of Indiana, the Indianapolis Urban League and other non-profits. In February 1999 Clare became the Chief Operation Officer of the law firm Sommer Barnard. In the ensuing years, using the Spirit in Leadership philosophy, the firm doubled in size, partner compensation grew, turnover was reduced from a high of 51% to 8%, productivity increased by 50% and employee attitude measurements were 85-90% favorable. That work is chronicled in the Journal of Organizational Excellence. Clare is national speaker on strategic employee matters.