

Paula Guilfoyle
President & Founder of Claim Leadership
Paula Guilfoyle, with over three decades of experience in leadership and personal development, specializes in transforming mindsets, enhancing productivity, and boosting engagement. As a keynote speaker and trainer, she helps leaders and teams navigate the extreme disruption and high-stakes change that AI is bringing to corporations.
This expertise is the foundation for AI success. Her scientifically based GAP Formula improves productivity, engagement, and retention while reducing stress. It is the human operating system that prevents AI paralysis and unlocks organizational scale. Paula has worked with Fortune 500 companies like Coca-Cola, Lowe’s, Microsoft, KPMG, and Collins Aerospace.
Before founding Claim Leadership, Paula spent 15 years in high-pressure leadership roles in Human Resources and Sales at Fortune 500 giants GE and Aventis, earning accolades like GE’s Managerial Award and Aventis’s highest sales honor, The President’s Club. This deep corporate background ensures her solutions are practical, scalable, and directly aimed at closing the human gaps created by technology-driven change.
In her personal life, Paula enjoys spending time with her partner Jeff and daughter Melia, and loves biking, hiking, traveling, and baking.