Gayla Hodges, MA, PCC, SPHR, CDMP
Executive Coach
Gayla Hodges is the President and Principal Consultant of Change Agents, Inc., a company that specializes in energizing workforces to achieve strategic goals. Gayla coaches business executives both within the context of helping them accomplish strategic corporate goals and on an individual basis. Using her unique Natural Effectiveness™ philosophy as the framework and beginning from the essential core strengths of the individual, she helps executives build upon their natural strengths to become more efficient, more effective and more successful in accomplishing personal and business goals. Her unique approach to building upon natural strengths and leveraging those strengths in leadership contexts also helps busy executives discover how to be more successful and have more energy for other interests or goals.
“I can say without reservation or hesitation that your services have impacted individual contributors and leaders, and especially me, and had a dramatic effect on their performance and the entire Plant culture. Four Corners would not be at this place at this time without your efforts. More importantly, you are impacting people’s personal lives.” -- David L. Saliba
“I wanted to say thank you for all of your terrific help in personally coaching me as I worked to manage through some very challenging times while President of the Western Energy Institute. Your ability to assess both the overall view and the many divergent perspectives of a functioning (or dysfunctional as the case may be) organization provide great depth and insight during a time when the trees could easily block my view of the forest. Perhaps the greatest asset you brought to this multi-year exercise was a soft-edged candor about the blind spots that I held as a leader of the organization. Having worked with other less effective coaches, I believe the key reason your counsel resonated with me so deeply was that you naturally empathize with your clients, which validates their feelings to a certain degree. Meanwhile, you are then able to shift to what I term “reality based input” that respects those feelings, but effectively bridges the conversations to what the implications are and how can we get to where we need to go. Having had the opportunity to work with a few coaches during my career who were quick to understand challenges and offer tactical solutions, I believe they missed the key element of successful coaching – understanding that management is a human experience and tactics won’t work if the humans don’t own the challenges and solutions.” -- Terry Sullivan
“The work we did together helped me understand myself, especially how I work and how I can be most effective. Your approach to coaching through focus on effectiveness and on maximizing my innate strengths immediately moved me beyond my misgivings about admitting I needed a coach or about having others learn I was working with a coach. It was refreshing to work with someone who was more concerned about helping me learn to be more effective than in pointing out my weaknesses. I believe the positive and forward-looking goal-oriented approach you bring to the coaching relationship helped me break down my internal barriers to receiving exactly the kind of help that makes me more efficient and more productive. . . . Thank you for bringing to us your profound human insight and your gentle ability to meet people where they are and urge them on to what they can become.” -- Catherine Scrivano
Gayla has extensive experience in instituting corporate transformational change. She coaches executives and managers on leading corporate change, facilitating the development and implementation of organizational effectiveness strategies. All of this is accomplished using a unique and proven process called Natural Effectiveness™, leveraging individual, team and organizational strengths to accomplish goals and build organizational capability. Gayla also founded and operates Renewal Ranch, AZ, an equine assisted/experiential learning center, for individuals, teams and organizations. Renewal Ranch offers a unique and powerful experience using horses as the catalyst for learning.
Gayla holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and a Master’s degree in Human Resources Management. She holds certification as a Certified Professional Leadership Coach from the International Coaching Federation and she is certified by the Society of Human Resource Management. Her company, Change Agents, Inc. is certified as a Woman Owned Business by the City of Phoenix and by WBENC (Women’s Business Enterprise National Council). She is a charter member of the Arizona Organization Development Network, a member of the International Coach Federation, the National Association of Women Business Owners, NAWBO, Shared Vision Network, and a graduate of Phoenix Valley Leadership Academy. She has received the APS Excellence Award for Breakthrough Project Management.
To reach Gayla, or to schedule a coaching appointment, please contact her at gayla@changeagentsinc.com or 623-362-3876.
Gayla Hodges, MA, PCC, SPHR, CDMP,
President and Principal Consultant of Change Agents, Inc.
