Gail has over 30 years of experience as an executive coach and is the founder of The Image Excellence Group – a 32-year-old coaching company in Johannesburg – one of South Africa’s foremost coaching businesses with a proven track record of mentoring and developing leaders in commerce, industry, sport, politics and the public sector. My Pocket Coach, an app. that she developed offers a full coaching service online and was launched in August 2020. An eLearning facility to compliment My Pocket Coach was launched in October 2022.

A Fellow of Trinity College London, Gail’s first book Voice Excellence was published in 1994, followed by her second book Authentic African Leadership in 2013 and her third book From Fear to Freedom was published in January 2021. A Fellow of Trinity College London, Gail’s proven consummate coaching skills has enabled her clients to fulfil their potential.

Gail has also been nominated as a Finalist in South Africa’s Most influential Women In Business and Government for 2008, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2019. In 2019 Gail was awarded industry leader in her field. Gail has addressed the International Association of Business Communicator’s conferences in New York on “Authentic Leadership – a South African case Study”, in 2009 in San Francisco on “EQ and its Impact on Business”, in 2010 in Toronto “The Quantum Physics of Success” and in 2014 The Leadership Legacy of Nelson Mandela where she was awarded the prized “All Star” designation of the IABC.

Gail loves coaching and mentoring others