Gail McDonald is a partner with St. Charles Consulting
Group, and she specializes in executive coaching, team
coaching, outcome-driven meeting facilitation and
organizational assessment.
As an executive coach, Gail helps strong leaders and
their teams accelerate their growth, shift out of their
comfort zones, and move to the next level of performance
and success. Representative client companies include
Dell, Bell Helicopter Textron, BNSF, Celanese, FedEx
Kinkos, Honeywell, HSBC, JPMorgan Chase, McKesson,
Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, Raytheon, Southwest
Securities, United Technologies, and the US Chamber
Institute for Legal Reform.
Previously, Gail was a corporate officer of Ryder
System, Inc. for eight years. During that time, she
served as senior vice president of human resources and
senior vice president of government affairs and
communications. Prior to Ryder, Gail held various human
resources roles of increasing responsibility at Xerox
Corporation, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and
Bankers Trust Corporation.
Gail also served for five years as the chairman of the
Coordinating Committee on Health and Retirement for The
Business Roundtable, a Washington-based association
composed of 200 CEOs of large corporations. In this
role, Gail spoke at a variety of forums regarding
initiatives that Corporate America is taking to enhance
health care quality for employees.
Gail received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics
from Duke University and her Master's degree in
Organizational Behavior from Cornell University’s School
of Industrial and Labor Relations.
Gail is a past president of the Dallas/Fort Worth
Chapter of the National Association of Women Business
Owners, a member of the President's Council for Cornell
Women, and a board member of The Center for Women’s
Business Research. She also serves as a Trustee for
Children's Medical Center of Dallas, and she is a former
board member of Miami Children’s Hospital and the Dallas
Children’s Advocacy Center.
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