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GILDA CARLE (Ph.D.) is the only Business & Relationship Strategist who coaches Boardroom to Bedroom issues from Wall Street to Main Street.
The New York Times called DR. GILDA “the busiest television therapist in the business.” Gannett named her “TV’s #1 talk-show therapist, hotter than the Sahara, part philosopher and part stand-up comic.” She conducts business & relationship coaching online.
Professor Emerita from New York’s business school at Mercy University, and now MBA professor at Forbes School of Business & Technology at UAGC, she advises international corporations on the “soft” skills that boost their bottom line. She delivered Relationship Wellness keynotes to the medical community, including New Jersey State Department of Health, New York City Health & Hospitals Corporation, and Columbia University Medical Center.
DR. GILDA is seen, heard, read, and clicked on worldwide by over 5 million people weekly. Her 19th book is “Real Men Don’t Go Woke,” which addresses men’s emotional and physical health. She also wrote the required college text, “Don’t Bet on the Prince!” (test question on “JEOPARDY!”), which made news with Dr. Gilda’s million-dollar book advance. “Don’t Lie on Your Back for a Guy Who Doesn’t Have Yours,” featured on the National Enquirer’s Health Page, tackles young women’s relationship issues. “How to WIN when Your Mate Cheats” was a literary award winner from the London Book Festival. Her business books, “One Up Strategies Business Schools Don’t Teach” and “Amplify Your Media Presence, Amplify Your Brand,” provide executives with the secret edge over the competition.
Her renowned GILDA-GRAMs in her books, columns, media appearances, and keynote speeches are inspirational messages to remember and refer. For example, “You will never be loved if you can’t risk being disliked;” “What you accept, you teach;” “We attract not who we want, but who we are.” She includes 365 GILDA-GRAMs, one for each day of the week, in her “My Rants & Ramblings Journal.” Readers describe tear-stained pages as they pour their innermost feelings onto each daily message.
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Education & Early Beginnings
A licensed educator, GILDA CARLE holds a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership 
from New York University, with a concentration in psychology, sociology, and social psychology. Her doctoral research explored self-esteem, role expectations, interpersonal communications, and relationships, and she became certified by New York State as a teacher, principal, and school superintendent. With her strong background in how leaders commit to goals, corporations began seeking her expertise to train and deliver leadership programs.
As a youngster, she danced on TV. As a young adult, she taught and administered educational programs in New York’s toughest South Bronx public schools. While she taught her students language skills, they taught her street smarts. She applied these South Bronx street smarts to her work with executives and their staffs, celebrities, politicians, and CEOs in some of the largest international corporations. Unlike any other corporate expert, DR. GILDA integrates her business expertise with her mass-market, pop culture appeal.
In the Movies
In documentary film, she was the family therapist in HBO’s Emmy Award winner, “Telling Nicholas.” The movie depicted DR. GILDA guiding a grieving family to tell their 7-year-
old that his mother died in the World Trade Center attack. In addition to winning an Emmy, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Academy Awards) named the film one of the 12 most outstanding documentaries of 2002, and segments of the movie aired on Oprah.
The “Country Music Doctor”
Dubbed the “Country Music Doctor,” DR. GILDA solves business and relationship issues with Country Music. 
This unique technique was so successful in the for-profit sector that she created a nonprofit 501(c)(3) educational charity, Country Cures, to train Homeless Female Veterans. She guided them to raise their self-esteem, leave the streets, and find solid jobs and careers.
Dr. Gilda AppliesCountry Music For Life’s Solutions
Dr. Gilda will motivate your audiences with social consciousness synonymous with your brand.
She customizes Sponsorship Opportunities with 1-minute audio advertorials. Choose topics for “Business Success,” “Life Success,” or “Veteran Suicide Prevention.” These are samples. Listen to them now.
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Corporate Services
A Business School Dean called DR. GILDA “Mother Teresa with lipstick and The Wall Street Journal.” The Wall Street Journal called her “a woman warrior who trains executives in Sun Tzu’s The Art of War [She prefers its other translation, ‘The Art of Strategy’].” She published papers in technical company journals and was invited to deliver some of them abroad to the esteemed Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
DR. GILDA’s Power Image Products became a resource for individuals, schools, and libraries. Her video, “How to Project a Power Image,” was endorsed by Success Magazine as a “hard-hitting, high-velocity advertisement of DR. GILDA’s own strategies.” Her video, “Skills for Successful Businesswomen,” was endorsed by Working Woman Magazine as “a valuable tool for women to take control of their career and make life happen.”
Her video, “How to Manage Anger and Take Control,” was endorsed by the American Management Association and the National Association for Female Executives, and segments of it aired on CNN’s Moneyline. Her nationally distributed newsletter, “Lessons in Self-Promotion,” was recommended as a networking tool by The Chicago Tribune, and she was awarded a Chair for achievement from Long Island University Graduate MBA Program. Successful Meetings Magazine honored her as “Best Speaker in America,” L’Egg’s hosiery celebrated her as one of their “Women on the Move,” and she received outstanding communicator awards from Women in Communications.
A partial list of her clients includes IBM, Citibank, U.S. Army, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York Power Authority, PSE&G, Niagara Mohawk, Con Edison, ARA Food Services, Mobil Oil, Newsweek, Kraft Foods, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), LPGA Golf Clinics, The Gartner Group, N.Y.C. Health & Hospitals Corporation, NJ Department of Health, Cottonelle, Pepsi, Exxon, Downstate Medical School, Marymount College, Elizabeth Seton College, Pace University, Mercy College, K-Mart, Pitney Bowes, Scarsdale, Yonkers, Somers, and New York City Public School Systems, International Flavors & Fragrances, Hallmark Cards, Project Time Off, Harlequin Books, American Women in Radio and Television (AWRT), Galderma Pharmaceuticals, EURO RSCG LIFE Public Relations, Ketchum Public Relations, Internal Revenue Service. She has appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, Fox News Channel, TBN, MSNBC, CNN, A&E, WB, WOR, Lifetime TV, VH1, MTV, HBO, E! Entertainment, and national and international radio networks and podcasts.
Pop Culture
Always the educator, while offering relationship advice on a local New York TV network, national television discovered DR. GILDA and catapulted her from academia and the corporate sector into pop culture, where she became a recognizable media personality.
She was the relationship therapist on the Sally Jessy Raphael Show on NBC-TV, as well as on most other national syndicated talk and news shows, from Howard Stern to Dateline to Court TV.
How Dr. Gilda Began on National TV
After being discovered on the national talk shows, she became MTV’s “Love Doc,” hosting her own call-in show. She went on to host TV shows on New York’s Trinity Broadcasting Network. Then, Twentieth Century Fox created a TV pilot for her to host her own syndicated show called “DR. GILDA.”
She wrote relationship columns for Teen People and other popular teen magazines. She also wrote the “Dr. Gilda Says” column in Thomson Newspapers’ syndicated “HealthFile.”
She currently writes her “Ask Dr. Gilda” column for the National Enquirer as the Relationship Expert to the Stars.
GILDA’s platform is: “We determine our destiny. Choose to be a victim, and you will remain stuck. Choose to tap your power, and you will soar.”
She wrote the weekly “30-Second Therapist” column for the Today Show and the “Ask Dr. Gilda” advice column for Match.com. She authored the “Shrink Rap” column for Soap Opera Digest, and she was on the advisory board of CosmoGIRL! and the National Association for Female Executives. She also wrote the AMI impulse-buy booklets in English and Spanish at checkouts in supermarkets, Walmart stores, and mass merchandisers throughout the United States and Canada.
Having spent years in crime-infested schools, DR. GILDA has the fearless moxie to provide strategic solutions that leaders need. Her TV appearances include Oprah, Dateline, O’Reilly, Larry King, Joy Behar, Sally Jessy Raphael, Ricki Lake, Montel, The View, Fox & Friends, Weekend Sunrise in Australia, Wolf Blitzer, Inside Edition, and Howard Stern, Canadian TV shows. She has been regularly quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, Cosmo, Glamour, Redbook, The National Enquirer, In Touch, Time Out New York, Teen People, Seventeen, CosmoGIRL!, Men’s Health, and Maxim. She has also been a guest on thousands of radio shows and podcasts worldwide, and she provided business and relationship advice on her call-in radio show, “Success Radio,” on ABC’s flagship station in New York, WABC.
Brand Spokesperson
DR. GILDA is a Brand Spokesperson. Clients have included Hallmark Cards, Harlequin Enterprises, Cottonelle, Sprint, Galderma Pharmaceuticals, Match.com, and more. For each client, she customizes keynote/motivational speeches, conducts satellite media tours, writes columns, appears on infomercials, social media, podcasts, advertorials, public service announcements, and makes network media appearances. Audiences see her in print, radio, and television, network and cable, syndicated and worldwide.
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