Gina Paigen is a professional coach, consultant, and facilitator; passionate about guiding individuals, teams and organizations to a deeper sense of purpose, and to higher levels of creativity, engagement, and inspired action.
She brings a wealth of diverse knowledge and experience in executive coaching, leadership, diversity, equity and inclusion work, mindfulness, business development, team and culture building, strategic planning, entrepreneurship, neuroscience, creative studies, and the arts.
Gina works with her clients to maximize their talent, create dynamic and inclusive cultures, break down silos, build high-performing teams, and deliver a healthy ROI. Her initiatives are oriented around the real-world experiences of her clients and are directly linked to their performance objectives and desired outcomes.
Gina’s experience with a wide range of clients, from West African immigrants to World Bank executives, has given her a true appreciation for the value diversity can bring to an organization, and as part of her commitment to multicultural work, she had the honor of designing and facilitating the “Blue Sky” project, bringing Israeli and Palestinian women together in dialogue.
Prior to stepping into the arena of talent development, Gina worked as a musician, photographer and stage designer, and then spent 17 years as CEO of a multi-million-dollar historic restoration company which she built from the ground up with little more than a telephone and a box of business cards.
Having honed her own special blend of creativity and business acumen, Gina is uniquely qualified to assist organizations and their leaders tap into their own entrepreneurial spirit. As a business coach, she has inspired a myriad of other entrepreneurs, serving as a program designer, facilitator and mentor at the SUNY Buffalo Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership.
Gina has worked across industries, in for-profit and non-profit, and from high-tech, bio-tech and academia, to agriculture and construction. Gina’s list of credits includes UNICEF, Eli Lilly, MIT/Sloan, Allegiant Air, Jackson Lab, World Bank, Royal Bank of Canada, Plato’s Closet, and The Creative Problem-Solving Institute.
Gina holds three professional ICF accredited coaching certifications, including one in neuroscience and coaching. She is a certified practitioner of the Leadership Circle Profile™, FourSight, and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. She has completed the Coaches Training Institute’s intensive Leadership and Leadership Way programs, she is trained in Creative-Problem Solving, and contemporary spiritual practice. Gina is a dynamic presenter, a TEDx speaker, and she has been published in The Huffington Post.
