In 1997 Gayle Gregory 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.

Throughout the process as Gayle’s self-awareness and compassion has grown, 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 Huntalasand Sherri Petro, as they came together and experimented with this evolutionary business model and learned first hand, its pitfalls and power.    

Workplace Evolution, 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. WE, a proponent of Compassionate Capitalism, fosters the growth of present moment awareness that naturally results in performance excellence and employee commitment. As CVO of WE, Gayle integrates her experience as a Fortune 500 senior manager and her continuously unfolding appreciation of human consciousness.

Ms. Gregory finished her BA in Management while deep in her career, an accomplishment that she laughingly states took 28 years. She graduated with honors right before taking a two-year sailing sabbatical to Vancouver Island, and from there to Mexico, aboard her 40 foot sailboat. The adventure provided insights into the seven myths, the crux of The Grand Experiment, and a crucial for organizational awareness in Workplace Evolution.

Gayle's clients have included emerging and growth companies in the technology, education, and service sectors who required a wholly new level of awareness and communication to cultivate individual potential and promote organizational performance.

Through Silent Presence, Gayle also offers compassionate guidance to people who have a sense that there is something more, even though they may not know what it is and to those who are tired of the search and want to stabilize within the present moment. 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. 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.  

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