Libby Gill

Libby Gill understands change. In her mid-forties after nearly twenty years in senior leadership roles in communications at media giants Universal, Sony and Turner Broadcasting, Libby founded Libby Gill & Company, an executive coaching and consulting firm.

She now helps clients like Avery Dennison, CA Technologies, Cisco, Comcast, Deloitte, Disney-ABC, Eli Lilly, GoDaddy, Kellogg’s, Microsoft, Nike, Oracle, PayPal, Royal Caribbean, Warner Bros., Wells Fargo, and many more shake up ‘business as usual’ mindsets and stagnant behaviors to drive purpose and high performance within their organisations.

Libby delivers keynote addresses, custom training programs, and executive coaching for companies desiring to create cultures of risk-taking, accountability and bold leadership. Her proven “Clarify, Simplify & Execute” process inspires excellence by maximizing “Leadership DNA,” building high-passion/ high-performance teams; and increasing employee engagement through authentic emotional connections.

Deciding she would answer the call of entrepreneurship, Libby left the corporate world and founded Libby Gill & Company in November 2000. As she was reinventing her professional life, Libby’s personal life also underwent a major transition. She chronicled her journey of overcoming the self-perceived limitations left behind by a family legacy of alcoholism, divorce, mental illness and suicide in her bestselling book Traveling Hopefully: How to Lose Your Family Baggage and Jumpstart Your Life.

Business leaders including Zappos.com CEO Tony Hsieh and Dr. Ken Blanchard have endorsed Libby’s award-winning book You Unstuck: Mastering the New Rules of Risk-taking in Work and Life. Her latest book focusing on consumer and workforce brand engagement is titled Capture the Mindshare and the Market Share Will Follow:The Art and Science of Building Brands.

A frequent media guest, Libby has shared her success strategies on CNN, NPR, the Today Show, and in BusinessWeek, Time, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and more. A graduate of California State University at Long Beach, Libby has been a college instructor, a columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and a soap opera actress. Libby lives in Los Angeles and is the proud mother of two fabulous young men – one a first-year teacher with Teach for America and the other a freshman at Oberlin College.