About Gayle

Leader. Mediator. Facilitator. Guide. Explorer.

My brand promise:

I expand perspectives, and thus the range of actions available for you within the systems you work and live in.

I am a global consultant based in San Francisco. My passion is helping people in any type of organizational system see their challenges and opportunities more broadly, differently, and then to enact a larger range of possibilities by co-designing what those actions could be to change performance.

The issues of this world cannot be solved at the same level of consciousness that created them, to paraphrase Einstein. People in leadership roles need to be multipliers of talent and people around them, motivate and support teams around strategic initiatives, and to act with wisdom amidst ambiguous external circumstance and increasing change driven by globalization and increasing technological breakthroughs. I can and will work on both the strategic, executive level and the ground-level implementation level to drive systemic organizational changes.

I have a deep understanding of human behavior, starting with a Masters in Organizational Psychology and honed by over a decade of experience as both an internal leadership development and change management consultant with Kaiser Permanente, and then as an external consultant offering services to companies such as the McDonald’s Global Leadership Development Program, Yale University, Oakwood Hospital Systems, Regent Seven Seas Cruises, the Seasteading Institute, the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Virgin America, McKesson, and other large and small organizations. I support innovative start-ups and radical, game-changing technological ideas, Fortune 500 companies striving for agility and growth, and non-profits with missions dedicated to making this world better to live in.

My particular area of research and passion is human maturation over lifespan and how that offers us increasing agility to grapple with the complexity of issues that face us. I thrive doing leader development, group facilitation and team dynamics, research and inquiry, and training and education.

I am also particularly interested in women’s human rights issues globally and have worked on and served on several non-profit boards. I currently serve as the chair of strategic planning on the board of Spark, a non-profit organization dedicated to building communities of young, global citizens invested in changing patterns of inequality that affect women globally. I am also a facilitator for the Stanford Graduate School of Business for their Interpersonal Dynamics T-Group-based course and for their Women in Management program. I also serve as a mentor for the Thiel Foundation’s 20Under20 program.

Gayle handled an extraordinary complex task of developing and delivering a presentation to the leaders of a leading ccademic institution on the challenges of leadership. Gayle brought a strong attention to detail, intellectual underpinning grounded in research, a well-honed intuition, and trememdous presentation skills. This enabled her to become a sought after business partner from the client and quickly established a robust partnership. Gayle has big thirst to learn and grow. She has strong appepitite to successfully stretch and achieve in stressful situations. I wholeheartedly endorse Gayle for her skills and capabilities.
— Glenn Tobe, Elliott Avenue