Dr. Gail Siler is a social scientist and an international consultant specialized in the field of positive health and wellness. She has worked for more than 25 years with corporations, international organizations and communities, helping people creative positive change in their lives in a manner that emphasizes the "cup half full." Gail was Associate Professor at University of Toronto for many years and taught at Humber College School of Business. Throughout her career Gail has worked tirelessly in many different areas of the health sector to bring a greater understanding of positive health to governments, the business sector, health practitioners and consumers. She worked originally as a health practitioner before moving to Wall Street as a securities analyst focusing on health sector companies. Gail served as a hospital administrator at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, where her work lead to the creation of a city hospitals' wide committee to focus on increasing the role of ambulatory care in hospitals. Following this work she received her master's degree in planning and worked in the health planning office in Washington, DC to help create policies that would encourage local and national governments and hospitals to focus more on wellness and health promotion. This work leads her to complete a PhD in policy studies at Vanderbilt University. She was employed by the Ontario government, even before completing her doctorate, as the first policy development professional in the government health sector. Her work with the Ontario and Canadian governments over the years in association with her work at the University of Toronto as Associate Professor helped the health care system to further define the importance of wellness as a policy focus and lead to her book, Directing Change and Changing Directions: A new health policy agenda for Canada. This work also resulted in her being asked to consult with the World Health Organization to assist them in developing a health promotion policy initiative. She served as faculty for several World Health Organization conferences and was visiting scientist in Scotland and Copenhagen working on WHO initiatives as well as visiting scientist with the Kings Fund, England. For the past decade Dr. Siler has actively worked with schools, community centers and individuals in activities that support and encourage positive health. She has pioneered in the creation of integrative brain workshops and courses; Gail has created the Champions of Change Program and the Inner Entrepreneur Program which engage clients to use both left and right brain skills in the process of building their inner success skill sets. Gail is also a working artist in the media of ceramic arts, is a jewelry designer and a writer. She is in the editing stage of her new book that addresses our return to wholeness and how our lives repeat the experiences of the archetypes until we claim our own story. In her own words, "My work is about change: its stages, the process, and the effects of change as expressed through art or as shared with fellow humans who are living through changes in their own lives. Through my own life experiences I have learned about the power, fear, exhilaration and alchemy of change. This knowledge I share through my art and my workshops, courses and counseling. Working with humans to coach, guide and support them to become more whole gives me the same feeling of awe. When we undergo change we put ourselves in an alchemical crucible. By giving our dreams permission to come alive, moving into and beyond our own fears and allowing the old us to die, we give birth to a new and wondrous self. Each of us is on our own journey to recover our wholeness." Gail is known for her unique light-hearted and dynamic workshop style that successfully marries practical business methods with creativity techniques, drawing on both the right and left sides of the brain. "Nothing pleases me more than watching the 'aha!' light turn on inside of people." 
|
