Gayle Gregory
Gayle Gregory's life work flows from present moment awareness. In 1997 Gayle decided to follow
her dream of sailing to Mexico with her husband Ken. She left behind a
successful career, her high heels and suits, her status and, as she soon
found, her identity. Upon the ocean’s waves Gayle plunged into a primal
reality that revealed her fears and opened her mind to the true reality
behind the human condition. Inspired to find deeper understanding and a
way to navigate the fear, she returned home committed to befriending
every fear and belief. In the process she found herself in the middle of
the present moment, the place where she says, “Every possibility exists.”
Throughout the process as Gayle’s self-awareness grew she shared her path and insights in two books, The Grand Experiment, an Expedition of Self-Discovery (co-authored with Madren Campbell and Karen Johnson) and Workplace Evolution, Common Sense for Uncommon Times, a business management and leadership award-winner. Workplace Evolution was born out of Gayle's collaboration with Vasi Huntalas and Sherri Petro, as they came together and experimented with this evolutionary business model and learned first hand, its pitfalls and power.
Workplace Evolution is an answer to why Gayle, and so many others, are not fulfilled at work and have high levels of stress and low levels of company loyalty. Her insights provide organizations of any size with the ability to address employee disengagement and keep quality people on the payroll. She is a proponent of compassion in capitalism, and facilitates the growth of present moment awareness that naturally results in performance excellence and employee commitment. In Workplace Evolution Gayle integrates her experience as a Fortune 500 senior manager and her continuously unfolding appreciation of human consciousness.
Gayle also offers self-awareness guidance to people who have a sense that there is something more, even though they may not know what it is and want to show up more fully in their work and personal lives. Through her own path, she has come to understand why despite years of meditation and spiritual practice, we still have a tendency to deny the truth of our experiences that are there to teach and guide us into a more vibrantly alive version of ourselves. Learning to be with our experience, messy or joyful, painful or not, and being profoundly intimate with our lives, exactly as they are, reveals a bigger truth capable of transforming us personally, the way we work together, and our limited version of success.