The Woman Who Helped Build GPG: Celebrating Kathryn Gamble’s Next Chapter

After nine years of partnership, we’re sharing some bittersweet news: Kathryn Gamble wrapped up her consulting career with Gail Perry Group at the end of 2025. While we’ll miss her enormously, we want to take a moment to celebrate everything she built with us.

It all started with a phone call.

Nine years ago, Gail called Kathryn with a simple ask: “I have a potential client – can you go see them?” That one call set everything in motion. When it came time to present to the board, Gail and Kathryn drove there together. As they pulled away afterward, a bald eagle swept across a field in front of them. They stopped, looked at each other, and took it as a sign.

They were right to.

GPG closed 2019 with four clients. By 2021, they had twelve clients across five states – growth that accelerated through the pandemic and kept building. The campaigns GPG supported grew from seven-figure efforts to eight- and nine-figure endeavors. What began as a promising venture became a nationally recognized philanthropic consulting firm.

None of it happened by accident. Kathryn brought deep experience from some of the region’s most respected institutions – UNC Chapel Hill, East Carolina University, Saint Mary’s School, and the North Carolina Museum of Art – along with an MBA from Queens University of Charlotte and a PhD from NC State. She helped build GPG’s core consulting methodologies, recruited and mentored the team, and brought what Gail describes as “strategic rigor, intellectual curiosity, and a steady presence to every client engagement.”

She also had one foot in the academy throughout – teaching Nonprofit Governance and Leadership in the Master of Nonprofit Management program at Johns Hopkins University, where she continues today.

One of Kathryn’s proudest contributions to GPG’s future: helping recruit Gina Vaughn, who now leads the GPG consulting team. “I know the work will continue to thrive under Gina’s leadership,” Kathryn says.

As for what’s next – Kathryn is heading into this chapter with her husband Lyne, their family, and seven grandchildren. That sounds like exactly the right kind of next chapter.

Kathryn, thank you for everything. GPG exists the way it does because of you.