As President of The Handel Group Education Division, Gaby Jordan not only leads with a high degree of expertise, but also is a incredible example of living a life of your own design. Having mapped out her future in law at an early age, Gaby graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in Political Theory from the University of Pennsylvania. She went on to obtain a law degree at Columbia University where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.
For 15 years, she was a partner in a highly regarded New York law firm specializing in litigation. Additionally, for several years she co-chaired the Hiring Committee responsible for hiring lawyers for that 200 person law firm. After 15 years of litigation, Gaby decided that the daily battles of a trial lawyer were no longer for her. The qualities of teamwork and partnership which attracted her to that firm presented themselves again in a more entrepreneurial environment as Gaby was invited to be a Vice President at Paradigm Direct, a direct marketing company. Brought on to join the leadership of the company through their most exciting and challenging growth period, Gaby distinguished herself as one who consistently generated results. These results included leading the AT&T wireless team, which produced over 250,000 customers for that company (more than any other single distributor worldwide). She stayed on for three and a half years, drawing upon her expertise in litigation and her twelve year background as a coach, seminar leader and world-wide trainer with one of the country's largest personal development education companies.
Committed to a life of her own design, when she left Paradigm, she intended to work on her own and was approached by Lauren Zander to come on board at The Handel Group as a Executive Coach in the Corporate Group. As The Handel Group developed, it became clear that with her background in training and mentoring seminar leaders, along with program development, Gaby possessed the unique skill set necessary to lead The Handel Group Education Division. Under the leadership of Gaby Jordan, The Handel Group Education Division is committed to introducing The Handel Method into the mainstream educational system through courses which provide growth-oriented direction inherent in the classroom learning environment. "It's about lifelong learning," says Gaby.
Her vision as President is to offer life skills and tools which enable individuals to deal with their lives truthfully. "The opportunity of Personal Integrity is to be able to be true to yourself, to honor yourself and your voice." Gaby believes passionately that all individuals, regardless of their stage of life; student, businessperson, parent, or grandparent; can honor themselves and live a life of their own design. She encourages them to ask "Whose life is this? Is my life going to be the one that I say I want to have, the one that I'm designing?" For Gaby, a life of her own design includes not only her professional endeavors, but also the nurturing of herself, her marriage, her two daughters and her musical abilities. As a singer (she has two CD's), she balances her family life through music. She sings in the Mother's Chorus at her daughters' school (the UN School), and regularly making music with her husband, also a singer and lawyer. As in her own life, Gaby is deeply committed to offering all individuals the opportunity to create truthful, rich lives of their own design. She does this through her leadership of The Handel Group Education Division.