What People Say About Me
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"I have never met anybody with better people skills. A deft facilitator of people and process, universally trusted and capable of having tough conversations with grace and compassion, in her time with us Gayle dramatically strengthened the Wikimedia Foundation. Working with her was a joyful experience."
Sue Gardner, Former Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia),
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Gayle can solve problems I've never seen anyone else solve. Her strength lies in understanding relationships between people, especially in the context of organizations with a nuance and precision that I have never encountered in another person. She does this by listening. Profoundly. Drawing upon her vast training and background in organizational psychology, she creates and supports you through frameworks that are sophisticated enough to capture complexity and simple enough to deploy right away. She artfully guides people through hard conversation, facilitating thoughtful understanding rather than fiery debate. In the entrepreneurship training program we run, she has used these methods to save teams of co-founders from falling apart. She has helped birth extraordinary cultures and workplace environments. She has served as a voice of reason, support, wisdom, nuance, and insight as a member of our board. If you have the rare opportunity to work with Gayle, do it. For you will perhaps never meet as gifted, as warm, and as effective a person for bringing about cultural transformation in your organization.
Teju Ravilochan, Co-founder and CEO, Unreasonable Institute
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As our Famous Entrepreneur Series speaker, Gayle Karen Young enraptured our diverse audience of business people, students, cultural creatives, and community activists. With her global experience and an extraordinary blend of sensitive intelligence and a very smart heart, Gayle introduced our participants to the poetic, practical, and sometimes revolutionary inspirations behind the collaborative social media movement. She is able to address the broad and complex scope of this quickly changing phenomenon and in particular its relevance to marginal and political-dissident populations. And finally, Gayle offered her own story of leadership with a vulnerability and an eloquence that stirred people to want to lead and serve with more soulfulness.
Rev. David McCallum, S.J., Ed.D, Former Dean of the Madden School of Business, Le Moyne College