| Gail Evans |
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When it comes to the success of women in the workplace, Gail Evans is a leading source. Former Executive Vice President of CNN, Gail is the author of the New York Times, Business Week, and Wall Street Journal’s bestseller "Play Like A Man Win Like A Woman". The book has been translated into 18 languages and is a bestseller around the world. Gail Evans’s myriad honors include an appointment by President Clinton to the Commission on White House Fellows, an election to the Council on Foreign Relations and an election to the YWCA’s Academy of Women Achievers. Her weekly syndicated radio segment “It’s Not Just A Man’s World” is syndicated to 1900 CNN radio affiliates throughout the United States. Her latest book is "She Wins, You Win".
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Gail Evans’s career is vast, beginning in government in the early 1960s working on a number of congressional staffs and culminating as the Executive Vice President of CNN. Early in her career, Gail Evans worked at the White House in the Office of the Special Counsel to the President during the Lyndon B. Johnson Administration and was instrumental in the creation of the president’s Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity and the 1966 Civil Rights Act. Where did Gail Evans learn the business game? In the male-dominated world of television journalism. She began working at CNN at its inception in 1980. By the time she retired in 2001, she was its Executive Vice President. During that time she was responsible for program and talent development at all of CNN’s domestic networks overseeing national and international talk shows and the Network Guest Bookings Department, which schedules about 25,000 guests each year. Evans is currently a Visiting Professor at the Dupree School of Management at Georgia Tech where she specializes in cultural diversity in the workplace. Her business advice columns appear in Worthwhile and PINK Magazines.
Gail Evans has spoken and given lectures to many of the world’s leading companies including GE, JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, KPMG, BellSouth, The Southern Company, and Scana Energy. |
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- Play Like A Man, Win Like A Woman
- She Wins, You Win
- Race, Gender & Ethnicity in the Workplace
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| "Our guests loved Gail. They found her to be very engaging and quite inspirational. I appreciated that she made herself available to us by phone prior to our event, signed books for our guests, reviewed the advance materials that we provided to her, joined us for the entire evening and happily answered questions from the audience before, after and during her presentation." |
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