About Amba
Amba Gale is a Master Coach, celebrated author, and dedicated advocate for personal and professional development. With a profound commitment to serving others through uncovering their inner wisdom and leading lives of purpose and fulfillment, Amba has spent over four decades transforming relationships and organizational cultures through her expertise in Communication and Leadership Development.
A graduate of UC Berkeley with honors and later completing a business mastery program at Darden College, Amba’s journey has been marked by a relentless pursuit of knowledge and a passion for teaching.
As the founder of Gale Leadership Development, Amba has collaborated with a diverse range of organizations, from Hewlett Packard to Town and Country Markets, from Pacific Coast Fruit to Pulse Heart Institute, fostering environments where communication thrives and partnerships flourish. Her acclaimed book, “Crossing Thresholds, Island Reflections,” awarded a Gold Medal Global Award for Nature Poetry in 2019, reflects her talent for blending poetry, photography, and introspection to explore themes of transformation and new beginnings.
Beyond her professional achievements, Amba finds inspiration in nature, residing on Bainbridge Island amidst the beauty of the Puget Sound. An avid traveler and inspired storyteller, she finds joy in sharing her experiences and wisdom, while cherishing moments with her creative adult daughter and musically talented husband.
Amba Gale continues to inspire others to embrace change, pursue their passions, and create extraordinary futures, embodying her commitment that every individual has the power to live authentically and with meaningful purpose.
A Poetic, Photographic, and Practical Guide for Embracing Endings and Welcoming New Beginnings
How do you shift your state of mind, and state of being, in challenging times, from anxiety and worry to delight and joy, from stress to well-being, from despair to appreciation, from resistance to acceptance, from exhaustion to wholeheartedness?
In challenging times, our happiness depends upon our making these shifts. Yet, how do we do that?
In Crossing Thresholds, Island Reflections, best-selling author, transformational coach, and founder of Gale Leadership Development, Amba Gale invites you to join her in connecting with nature and tapping into the silence inside, where deep lessons abound.
Amba’s heartfelt poetry, breathtaking color photographs, and, what she calls “teaching questions,” will guide you to embrace, and complete, the endings in your life and to create a new future —a future that brings you more fully alive.
Through prompts, exercises, journaling, and reflective questions, we enter into new pastures of living and being that provide a foundation for creating new futures, and a life worth living.
Discover how to:
- Create breakthroughs when things are falling apart
- Heal ourselves and others through forgiveness
- Have even our wounds be sources for compassion
- Invent new futures for ourselves and our lives
- Call upon the power of faith, and bring forth life-changing declarations, even when the ground shakes underneath
- Generate pathways into living from appreciation, amazement, and wonder
- Flourish in times of uncertainty
Diving into the pristine wilderness of Isle Royale National Park in Lake Superior, and taking a personal journey, in which she connected with nature, and re-invented her relationship with her now-adult daughter, Amba saw a missing bridge to a dock as a metaphor for making that crossing. She let go of her expectations for her daughter’s future and now saw her as a resourceful adult, author, and shaper of her life. Following Amba’s writing as a guide, we find that we, too, can create a vision and build a bridge, which allows for your new future to be fulfilled, learning all the way.
This book is for you if you
- Want to take an inner adventure of creating a shift in your life.
- Are longing for connecting with your own heart and inner wisdom as your guide.
- Wish to see the gifts in all of our life’s circumstances.
- Are ready to open new territory in your life for re-inventing relationships, letting go of what no longer works, and stepping into new ground for trusting in yourself and the world.
- Are open to cultivating your capacity for living in wonder, profound appreciation, and gratefulness.
#1 New Releasein Nature Poetry (May 2020)
Winner of the Gold Medal of the Global Book Awards
in Nature Poetry
Listen to Amba Read “Crossing Thresholds” Reflective Journaling
listen to amba read “superior symphony storm”
“come to me my island”
“for giving endings”
“heart break”
“wake up wind”