Your employees don't need another engagement program. They need a reason to care.
Strategic Impact Group helps mid-size companies turn disengaged teams into connected, productive workforces, through keynotes, workshops, and consulting that link your people to your purpose.

- CertifiedWomen's Business Enterprise
- HonoredWho's Who in America 2024
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- As featured inInfluence Magazine
- #1 International Best SellerLeadHERship, contributing author
Engagement is at a breaking point.
Only about one in three employees is truly engaged at work. The rest are going through the motions: showing up, but checked out.
That quiet disengagement shows up as turnover, low morale, and stalled growth. And it rarely announces itself until the cost is already on the books.
of employees are actively engaged at work today
employees: the size of company where culture shifts fastest
missing link: connection to purpose, to colleagues, to the mission
When people know their work matters, to their team, to their company, to their community, they stop going through the motions.Gail Stevens
Most companies treat the symptom with perks, surveys, and initiatives. We work with leadership teams to rebuild connection from the inside out, so engagement becomes part of how the company operates, not another initiative that fades by Q2.
Three ways to work together.
Every engagement is customized to your company: your people, your challenges, your goals.
Keynotes & Speaking
Energizing talks that reframe how your leaders and teams think about engagement, culture, and community impact.
Signature talk: “Transformational Leadership in a Transformational Era”
Seminars & Workshops
Hands-on sessions where your people do the real work: building connection, clarifying purpose, and leaving with a plan.
Consulting
Ongoing partnership with your leadership team to embed engagement into strategy, operations, and culture.
Meet Gail Stevens.
Gail founded Strategic Impact Group on a simple belief: companies do their best work when their people feel connected, to each other, to the mission, and to the community they serve.
She works with executives and leadership teams at established mid-size companies, helping them turn employee engagement from a persistent problem into a lasting competitive advantage.
Raised in Flint, Michigan, Gail has spent her career at the intersection of business and civic life. She believes there is real magic in business and community collaboration, and she builds it into every engagement.
- MBA, Marketing · USC Marshall School of Business
- MSW · University of Maryland School of Social Work
- BA, Education · University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
“She continually leverages her leadership, vision, innovative and strategic thinking.”
Guillermina Molina · Assistant Dean, External Relations, USC Marshall School of Business
Memberships & AffiliationsWomen's Business Council Southwest / WBENC · Frisco Chamber of Commerce · Plano Chamber of Commerce · Junior League of Collin County · Women's Auxiliary, Children's Health Plano · USC Marshall Alumni Dallas, Founding Regional Representative · USC Marshall Volunteer Leadership Council · eWomenNetwork
Creating Strategic Impact through Business & Community Collaboration.
Gail's chapter in LeadHERship: Inspiring Women Leading with Purpose asks a question every leader should sit with: what kind of world are we creating for our children? Then it shows how one voice becomes an orchestra of voices for impact, influence, and change.
Next Step
Let's talk about your team.
A short conversation about where your company stands today, and what connected, engaged teams could look like for you. No pitch, no pressure.
Book a Conversation Prefer email? [email protected] · 972.799.6440