Gayla Swihart DeHart, Ph.D., Psychology
Professional Coach

Gayla DeHart

Gayla is a results-oriented coach who is committed to helping people get more out of life , both personally and professionally. She helps busy professionals and executives increase productivity, effectiveness, and efficiency through time management, goal-setting, accountability, and communication training and consulting. She is also helps companies attract and retain clients and employees through customer service training.

Gayla has a Ph.D. in Psychology and is a Certified Master Personal & Executive Coach. She has coached and trained hundreds of service professionals, small business owners, and entrepreneurs, as well as corporate management and employees. She has taught graduate level educational psychology courses and several undergraduate courses at the University of British Columbia for several years and has previous experience as an academic researcher, managing and coordinating multi-site large-scale government-funded research projects. Gayla also co-owns a high growth, award-winning home care company.

Gayla also helps individuals start or grow their own businesses, market, and develop excellent customer service, and is the senior coach as well as past Vice President of Business Development for Michael Port and Associates and the Book Yourself Solid program which helps small business owners, sevice professionals, and solo-professionals get more clients than they can handle, even if they hate marketing and selling.

Gayla is a member of the following organizations:

• International Coach Federation
  
• American Psychological Association
  
• Canadian Psychological Association

Gayla is also an associate coach for the University of British Columbia, and is regularly invited to facilitate corporate workshops on time management, positive psychology, and communication.

Gayla's clients appreciate her friendly but professional and results-oriented coaching style, and she does her best work with clients who are committed to achieving their goals, no excuses. That is, they do what they say they are going to do, because they know that nothing great happens without some elbow grease, and that change may not be easy, but the outcome will be well worth the effort.

She is a Director of the Board of Big Sisters of BC, Lower Mainland, the Chair of the local chapter of the eWomen Foundation, and the Director of the DeHart Education and Poverty Relief Foundation, and lives in Vancouver, BC, on the west coast of Canada, with her husband, John, co-founder of Nurse Next Door, winner of the Ernst & Young 2006 Entrepreneur of the Year Award for the Pacific Region category of Emerging Entrepreneur, and their daughter, Daisy.

John DeHart, Co Founder, Nurse Next Door

John DeHart

John’s purpose in life?  To create systemic change in our society. And it is through Nurse Next Door that he is starting to embark on his purpose.  Founded in 2001 based on his personal experiences of trying to find a caregiver to care for a family member, John’s goal is to build a world class healthcare brand in North America and in doing so, completely change the way that we care for seniors throughout North America.

Since 2001, John has used his inspiring vision and leadership to grow Nurse Next Door from an idea at a coffee shop to one of Canada’s fastest growing companies.  With 25 locations across Canada and growing, he has lead Nurse Next Door to be ranked as one of the “Top 10 Companies in British Columbia to Work For”  two years in a row by BC Business Magazine. (The only healthcare organization ever to win the award).

Prior to Nurse Next Door John launched and co - founded a number of early stage hi-tech companies but left the lucrative career in search of something more meaningful. After taking significant time off, John re-entered the business world with a mission: to create a leading brand in the healthcare industry that would build on a powerful foundation of Core Purpose, Core Values and  the Envisioned Future. 

John's professional achievements are impressive. He holds a B.Sc in Hotel Administration (Major in Finance) from Cornell University, a Master’s in Entrepreneurship from MIT, was named one of Business in Vancouver's "Top 40 Under 40" business leaders in BC, and was the recipient of the Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur Of The Year Award” 2006 for the Pacific Region as an Emerging Entrepreneur. He has been featured in numerous media outlets, including the Globe and Mail, Fortune Small Business, the National Post, CBC and MSN. He is a regular keynote speaker, and has been invited to speak throughout North America, including at prestigious Universities such as Cornell University and M.I.T.

John lives in Vancouver with his wife, Gayla, and daughter, Daisy. He co - founded the DeHart foundation, which is currently building a school in Emorijoi, Kenya. His passions include trail running on any mountain, windsurfing, going to the beach and reading (philosophy and classic literature are his favorites).