Meet Dori Gilbert

I’m Dori Gilbert, and my career has been dedicated to navigating the messy middle of business growth where products evolve, teams stretch, priorities collide, and limits become impossible to ignore. Over the past two decades, I’ve specialized in project leadership, technology product and deployment enablement strategies, marketing communications, and organizational alignment. My experience has taught me that every challenge, no matter how complex, ultimately comes down to people trying to move forward without a clear path.

As an Impact Intelligence Partner, I embrace the work I’ve always done instinctively, integrating leadership principles into my approach. My Top 5 CliftonStrengths (Strategic, Self-Assurance, Learner, Ideation, and Futuristic) reflect how I’m wired: I quickly identify patterns, anticipate coming changes, help people make sense of tangled situations, and seek outcomes that foster alignment. I’m certified as a Project Management Office Certified Practitioner (PMO-CP), a Change Management professional, a Product Portfolio Management professional, and a Listening Intelligence Coach. These disciplines allow me to blend systems thinking with human insight, structure with intuition, and strategy with empathy.

My Business Resonance Framework distills my signature blend of clarity, identity articulation, and systems architecture into a coherent philosophy: leaders become resonant when their inner architecture and outer operations vibrate in alignment. Rooted in self-knowledge, purpose anchoring, and sequenced growth, this framework guides founders and small business owners to build their businesses around what matters most, resulting in organizations that feel calm, assured, structurally sound, and capable of meaningful momentum. Business Resonance embodies a way of leading and building that transforms overwhelm into coherence, scattered effort into intentional action, and good ideas into sustainable, resonant results.

Through my enterprise brand, Kite Agility, I support Project Leaders and PMOs by helping organizations create clarity across teams, projects, and systems. This facilitates smoother workflows with less friction and more alignment. Whether the challenge involves communication, prioritization, or navigating competing demands, I assist project leaders in uncovering patterns beneath the surface and building the structures that enable sustainable delivery.

Whether I'm collaborating with a founder, a project leader, or any professional changing direction, my role remains consistent: to help you perceive what’s really happening, define what matters most, and take the next impactful step with confidence. I believe clarity is both practical and deeply human; when you achieve it, everything else becomes easier to build. As Brené Brown aptly stated, 'Clarity is kind. Lack of clarity is unkind.'