About Amba
AWAKENER OF HEART, MEANING, AND JOY IN LIFE, TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP COACH, COMMUNICATION MENTOR, AUTHOR, NATURE PHOTOGRAPHER
Amba Gale is a Master Coach committed to the awakening of consciousness as the source of healing for our planet. She is reliable for releasing people to their own leadership, borne from their own wisdom, spirit, and vision. Through her expertise in communication and leadership development, Amba has spent over four decades working with organizations to create and sustain relationships and instill trust, creating organizational cultures that allow for the Soul to flourish in business. She is committed to the principle that the power of a business to thrive is directly correlated to the power of the people in that organization.
Amba has a BA with honors in English, and an MA in Education from UC Berkeley. She later completed a business mastery program at Darden College. A relentless pursuit of knowledge and a passion for teaching have characterized Amba’s journey. As a certified Communication Course Leader for a multinational corporation, Amba has empowered countless individuals to foster trust and effective communication in both their personal and professional lives.
As the founder of Gale Leadership Development, Amba has collaborated with a range of organizations, such as Hewlett Packard, Town and Country Markets, Plymouth, Inc, and Pulse Heart Institute, fostering environments in which communication thrives, trust resounds, and partnerships flourish. Her book, Crossing Thresholds, Island Reflections, which received 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. She is currently writing The Heart of Sacred Listening: The Key to Transforming Your Relationships, Your Work, and Your Life, to be launched in early 2026.
In addition to her professional accomplishments, Amba finds inspiration in nature. She lives on Bainbridge Island, surrounded by the beauty of Puget Sound. As an avid traveler and passionate storyteller, she enjoys sharing her experiences and insights while cherishing moments with her creative adult daughter and musician husband.
Amba Gale reliably inspires others to embrace change, transform breakdowns into breakthroughs, live a meaningful and passionate life, and create extraordinary futures, recognizing that every individual has the power to live authentically and with 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.
Jack Canfield, co-author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul.
#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”