About Gail Evans
 "Love the Game." With those words Gail Evans concludes one of the most successful and
influential books about women in the workplace. Many women did
not even know the game existed before Gail taught them how to
win in the workplace with her book "Play Like A Man, Win Like A
Woman."
The book was listed for several months on the New York Times,
Business Week, and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists. "Play Like A
Man, Win Like A Woman" has been translated into 18 languages
and has been a bestseller around the world. When it comes to the
success of women in the workplace, Gail is a leading source. She
has appeared on The Today Show and Larry King Live, and has been
featured in The New York Times and USA Today.
Gail's status has been enhanced by her newest book,"She Wins,
You Win." She has given lectures to many of the world's leading
companies including GE, JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Wells
Fargo, KPMG, BellSouth, Microsoft and Wal-Mart. Gail is currently
an associate professor at Georgia Tech's School of Management. Her
business advice columns appear in Worthwhile and PINK magazines.
Where did Gail learn the business game? In the male-dominated
world of television journalism and politics. In the 1960s, Gail served
on many congressional staffs and in the White House office of the
Special Counsel to the President in the Johnson administration.
She began working at CNN at its inception in 1980. By the time
she retired in 2001, she had risen to the position of Executive Vice
President of Domestic Networks and a member of the organization's
Executive Committee. In that capacity she was responsible for
program and talent development at all of CNN's domestic networks
and for overseeing national and international talk shows and the
Network Guest Bookings Department, which schedules about
25,000 guests each year.
In addition to speaking and teaching, Gail serves on numerous
non-profit boards including the Radio Television News Directors
Foundation, the Society for Women's Health Research, the Atlanta
Girls School and the Breman Jewish Heritage Museum. She is a
founding director of Greenstone Media, one of the country's first
radio talk networks focused on women. Gail was also appointed
by former President Clinton to the Commission on White House
Fellows. She is the former chairperson of the Georgia Endowment
for the Humanities
Gail lives in Atlanta and is the mother of three and the
grandmother of seven. |
