Curating Your Life for Lasting Fulfillment

• Workshop Room 2

Discover how to boost wellbeing, happiness, and performance by curating your life. Psychologist and leadership expert Gail Golden shares science-backed strategies to focus your energy on what matters most—and let go of what doesn’t.

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Gail Golden from Gail Golden Consulting Headshot Photo at Small Business Expo

Gail Golden Gail Golden Consulting

Gail Golden, MBA, Ph.D., provides strategic advice and coaching to reveal what’s really going on, so leaders can make rapid, accurate decisions to create breakthrough change. Drawing on her unique cross-background perspective, Gail helps senior executives and professionals, executive leadership teams, and organizations hit peak performance. As a licensed psychologist and an MBA-holding entrepreneur, Gail understands both the emotions and the economics successful C-suite executives and senior professionals must master. Her unique approach combines sports-influenced tactics of performance coaching with psychology-trained skills of empathy to bring the best out of businesses, leaders, and
Gail Golden, MBA, Ph.D., provides strategic advice and coaching to reveal what’s really going on, so leaders can make rapid, accurate decisions to create breakthrough change. Drawing on her unique cross-background perspective, Gail helps senior executives and professionals, executive leadership teams, and organizations hit peak performance. As a licensed psychologist and an MBA-holding entrepreneur, Gail understands both the emotions and the economics successful C-suite executives and senior professionals must master. Her unique approach combines sports-influenced tactics of performance coaching with psychology-trained skills of empathy to bring the best out of businesses, leaders, and employees. One of her specialties is helping senior leaders identify and master key interpersonal skills so they can provide top value to their organizations. Current and former clients include AbbVie, Best Buy, BMO Harris Bank, The City of Chicago, SGS & Co, Smart USA, The University of Chicago, Weber Shandwick, and many more. Gail’s book, Curating Your Life, was published by Rowman & Littlefield in April 2020. The book is based on more than two decades of helping leaders of all types maximize their achievements. Curating Your Life is full of advice on how to identify and accomplish one’s most important goals. Gail has extensive experience as a public speaker and media commentator and was a TEDx speaker in Ocala, FL, in 2023. She has taught courses at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago. She has been quoted in Fast Company, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Crain’s Chicago Business, The Chicago Tribune, Psychology Today, and numerous other publications. To help businesses and leaders apply her insights, Gail has developed and led workshops in corporate settings on a variety of topics, including building a culture of innovation, becoming a powerful leader, and developing high performance teams. To see her presentation style, visit https://www.gailgoldenconsulting.com/services/speaking-events/ Gail is the Principal of Gail Golden Consulting, an international network of senior management psychologists and consultants. She serves on the Women’s Board of the University of Chicago, has been elected to the International Women’s Forum, and coordinates the Chicago Coaching Roundtable, a network of leading executive coaches.