About Our Guest Speaker

Gayle is a passionate organizational leadership trainer and coach. Her moto is “an organization is only as good as its staff and the staff is only as good as its leadership.” Gayle loves to help executives and mid-management work on themselves to show up as their highest and best self.

Gayle brings over 25 years of non-profit, public and private business leadership to LeaderGov where she focused her energies toward making the workplace a place where all staff could thrive. In her work with many local government agencies in the state of Washington, she's helped them better understanding who they are and how they show up better to others. Her approach is using emotional intelligence and other personality and behavioral tools for individuals and for teams to develop self-awareness and self-regulation. Emotionally intelligent workplaces communicate better, build trust with each other, innovate more, retain staff at higher rates and provide spaces for people to show up as their authentic self.

Gayle also has worked with organizations on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and Race and Social Justice. Gayle attended Spelman College in Atlanta, GA.  Gayle has a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, from the University of Washington, is Certified in Life Coaching and is a member of the International Coaching Federation, and has had courses in Transformational Leadership from Seattle, University.

Gayle is from an African American Pioneer family in Seattle, WA. She currently resides in Georgia.