Currently a freelance consultant and author, Gary Wilson taught in secondary schools for twenty seven years, mostly in West Yorkshire. He began work on raising boys' achievement in 1993, quickly realising the need to work in conjunction with feeder primary schools in order to maximise the impact.

In the late 90's he contributed an account of this work to "Getting it Right for Girls and Boys", edited by Noble and Bradford. In 2001 he was asked to write "Using the National Healthy School Standard to Raise Boys' Achievement" for the NHA and the DFES.

A year later he was seconded to the local authority to work with 10 high schools. In 2003 he was made the country's first LEA school improvement officer with specific responsibility for raising boys' achievement. In 2005 he was made chair of the National Education Breakthrough Programme on Raising Boys' Achievement, established by the National Primary Care Trust and the DFES Innovations Unit which works in 100 schools nationwide.

In 2005 he led a double national award winning campaign to raise achievement across Kirklees LEA.

He has been involved in the production of numerous resources for Kirklees, including materials on dealing with peer pressure, parents' leaflets, DVDs on Dual and Shared Heritage Children and the Achievement of African Caribbean boys.

He has spoken at numerous DFES best practice events as well as LEA and National conferences all over the country and in Brazil. He has advised and trained in over two hundred schools and over thirty LEAs across the UK. He also runs courses for OSIRIS Educational and AWLED as well as being associate advisor to four LEAs.

He has written for the TES, Secondary Leadership Focus, Working with Young Men, Teaching Expertise and numerous websites. A programme was also made about his work for Teachers TV "The Trouble With Boys" and has appeared on the BBC and Woman's Hour many times.