Gayle joined the Friendship Village family of senior living communities in 2018, bringing with her more than 20 years of human resources experience in executive and senior leadership roles in multifacility and multistate senior living operations. She started her career with Via Christi Villages as Vice President of Human Resources, providing human resources leadership and strategic guidance for 11 communities, with 1,000 leaders and staff located in Kansas and Oklahoma City. Gayle moved with her family to St. Louis in 2014 to serve as Chief Human Resources Officer for Ascension Health Senior Care, the senior care subsidiary of Ascension Health, one of the nation’s largest health systems.
Her passion is to cultivate happy, motivated and engaged employees — not only through competitive compensation and benefit programs, but through appropriate training and education. She is also dedicated to showing all employees the respect they deserve and the value they bring to the organization.
Gayle holds an Associate of Arts and a Bachelor of Business Administration from Wichita State University, as well as a Master of Human Resources Development from Webster University.