M. Gail Woodard

Born in Boston, she graduated from Albertus Magnus College and earned an MBA from Yale University. After fifteen years in the corporate world focused on strategic planning and marketing, she closed her consulting practice to begin a new adventure – home-schooling her three sons, then ages 8, 6 and 3. For the next decade, they learned and grew together, exploring all their Santa Barbara, CA neighborhood had to offer, traveling around the U.S. and living in both Mexico and France. Later, she lived in southern Arizona where she taught finance and management at the University of Arizona South and yoga in her home studio.

Most recently she has become ‘happily homeless,’ exploring parts of the U.S. and Latin America as she continues to grow her publishing services business, Dudley Court Press. Thanks to technology, she is always in touch with her clients and team, as well as with family and friends, around the globe. As publisher and author coach at Dudley Court Press, she helps authors clarify and achieve their publishing goals. Her way of living a joyful life today is to assist business and wellness professionals get their books done, and done right. Using technology and taking advantage of all the offerings within the publishing industry today, her team helps authors make the right strategic choices for writing, designing, publishing and marketing meaningful books.