About Dr. Gilda
DR. GILDA CARLE is the only internationally-known relationship expert who speaks to corporations, adults, teens, and children. She is seen, heard, read, and clicked on worldwide by over 2 million people each week.
DR. GILDA was the Relationship Expert on the TV show, "50 Ways to Leave your Lover," on the Investigation Discovery network. The New York Times called her "the busiest television therapist in the business." Gannett named her "TV's #1 talk-show therapist, hotter than the Sahara, part philosopher and part stand-up comic." DR. GILDA responds to worldwide fans on her web site, www.DrGilda.com, and she has a private practice worldwide, on Skype, telephone, and email. She did Relationship Wellness consulting at Columbia University Medical Center. She was an associate professor of business, psychology, and communications at New York's Mercy College. Today, she has the honorable title of Professor Emerita.
DR. GILDA has authored 17 books, including: "Don't Bet on the Prince! How to Have the Man You Want by Betting On Yourself" (a test question on "JEOPARDY!,") "He's Not All That! How to Attract the Good Guys," and "Teen Talk with DR. GILDA: A Girl's Guide to Dating." Her other books include: "How to WIN When Your Mate Cheats," "99 Prescriptions for Fidelity: Your Rx for Trust," and "Why Your Cheater Keeps Cheating -- And You're Still There." The hundreds of GILDA-GRAMS® in her books, columns, and motivational speeches keep us going when life gets tough: "You will never be loved if you can't risk being disliked;" "What you accept, you teach;" "We attract not who we want, but who we are."
DR. GILDA has served as a Product Spokesperson for Hallmark, Harlequin, Cottonelle, Sprint, Galderma Pharmaceuticals, Match.com, Lavalife, Project: Time Off, and other major corporations. For these clients, she has done keynote & motivational speeches, satellite media tours, video news releases, columns, infomercials, podcasts, advertorials, public service announcements, and media appearances. Her media coverage includes print, radio, and television, syndicated and worldwide.
DR. GILDA was the Love Doc for two New York off-Broadway shows: "I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change" and "Miss Abigail's Guide to Dating, Mating, & Marriage!" She answered relationship questions from the audience, delivered her special brand of advice and GILDA-GRAMS®, and did book signings.
Education and Career History
A licensed educator, GILDA CARLE holds a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership from New York University, with a concentration in psychology, sociology, and social psychology. Her doctoral research explored self-esteem, role expectations, interpersonal communications, and relationships, and she received certification from New York State as a teacher, principal and school superintendent. As a youngster, she danced on TV. As a young adult, she taught and administered educational programs in New York's inner city schools in the South Bronx. Later heading her own firm, she became a management consultant and motivational speaker for Fortune 500 companies. The Wall Street Journal called her "a woman warrior who trains executives in Sun Tzu's The Art of War [She prefers its other translation, "The Art of Strategy"], as it applies to communications." She has published papers in technical and company journals, and has delivered some of them abroad for IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers).
The Dean at Mercy College praised DR. GILDA by calling her, "Mother Theresa with lipstick and The Wall Street Journal." But she says it's her clients, students and fans who deserve the credit, because it is they who continue to teach her how to serve people best.
