Libby Gill

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Libby Gill

Born	1954 Geneva, New York
Alma mater	California State University, Long Beach
Occupation(s)	Leadership speaker, executive coach, writer, CEO of Libby Gill & Company
Children	2
Website	www.libbygill.com

Libby Gill is a leadership speaker, executive coach and author from Los Angeles, California.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] She also is the CEO of Libby Gill & Company, an executive coaching and consulting firm. Previously, Gill was Senior Vice President at Universal Studios Television, and Vice President at Sony Pictures Television and Turner Broadcasting.^[5]

She is a former columnist for The Dallas Morning News.^[6]

Early life and education

Gill was born in New York and raised in Mandarin, Florida.^[1] She was one of six children and the daughter of a psychiatrist.^[1]^[5] She attended California State University, Long Beach and earned a degree in theater.^[1]

Career

In 1995, she was appointed to senior vice president of media relations at the MCA Television group.^[7] Gill had senior leadership positions at Turner Broadcasting, Universal Studios and Sony Pictures Entertainment for fifteen years before founding Libby Gill & Company, an executive coaching and consulting firm, in November 2000.^[8] Her clients include AMC Networks, Avery Dennison, CA Technologies, Disney-ABC, Kellogg's, Microsoft, PayPal, Wells Fargo, and others.^[9]

She began writing about her experiences as an executive and teaching at a local university.^[5] She has also taught at California State, Northridge.^[10] She authored four books and shared her experiences in Time,^[11] The New York Times,^[12] and The Wall Street Journal.^[13]

Stay-At-Home Dads (2001) was written about her family's experiences when she was making more money than her husband and they decided he would be a stay-at-home dad.^[14] After ten years of her husband being the primary caregiver in the house, she wrote the book.^[15] The journal, Adolescence, called it a "step by step blueprint for transitioning into a stay-at-home-dad family."^[16]

Traveling Hopefully: How to Lose Your Baggage and Jumpstart Your Life (2005) includes personal stories from her own childhood traumas.^[17] In 2010, Gill's book You Unstuck: Mastering the New Rules of Risk-taking in Work and Life (2009) won an Independent Publishers Award in 2010.^[18] She earned a silver award and was tied with Leanne Cusumano Roque who wrote Live Light: Simple Steps.^[19]

Gill was the media consultant for the Dr Phil television show.^[5] The Desert Sun called her "the brains behind the Dr. Phil show."^[20]

Personal life

Gill lives in Medford, Oregon with her husband, attorney David Stern, and is the mother of two sons.^[21]

Bibliography

Malibu Summer: A Novel (2024), ASIN B0CHVB3HDZ
Stay-At-Home Dads: The Essential Guide to Creating the New Family (2001), ISBN 0-452-28274-8
Traveling Hopefully: How to Lose Your Family Baggage and Jumpstart Your Life (2005), ISBN 0-312-32394-8
You Unstuck: Mastering the New Rules of Risk-Taking at Work and in Life (2009), ISBN 978-1932361681
Capture the Mindshare and the Market Share Will Follow: The Art and Science of Building Brands (2013), ISBN 978-1137278517
The Hope-Driven Leader: Harness the Power of Positivity at Work (2018), ISBN 978-1635763751
Leadership Reckoning: Can Higher Education Develop the Leaders We Need?(2021, with Thomas Kolditz and Ryan P. Brown), ISBN 978-1952938368

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Kerner, Sarah (2006-02-06). "Solutions". The Dallas Morning News.
^ "You Unstuck: Creating Your Wow Career". Today’s Financial Women. Winter 2010. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
^ Jane Glenn Haas (2005-04-24). "How to avoid being derailed by midlife crisis". Orange Country Register. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
^ "Traveling Hopefully: Q & A with Libby Gill". Retrieved 2014-10-10.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Coyne, Kate (March 2005). "Dr. Phil's secret weapon". Good Housekeeping. 240 (3): 146 – via EBSCOhost.
^ "Libby Gill". Archived from the original on 2014-10-22. Retrieved 2014-10-10.
^ "Maverick's Konowitch Outsted". The Los Angeles Times. 1995-12-12. p. 64. Retrieved 2018-01-31 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "VP Exits Studios USA to Set up Libby Gill & Go". Daily Variety. 269: 6. 12 October 2000 – via EBSCOhost.
^ "Gill to Speak at NKY Chamber Women's Initiative Regional Summit". The Cincinnati Enquirer. 2017-09-07. pp. B4. Retrieved 2018-01-31 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Shepard, Mitch (2014-02-03). "Why Confidence is Critical: Libby Gill". Retrieved 2014-10-10.
^ Barovick, Harriet (2002-08-18). "Domestic Dads". Time. ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved 2018-01-31.
^ Lawlor, Julia (2004-08-01). "When Stay-at-Home Fathers Return to Work (Elsewhere)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-01-31.
^ Dunham, Kemba J. (2003-08-26). "Stay-at-Home Dads Fight Stigma". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2018-01-31.
^ "Welcome Home". The Star Press. 2002-06-11. p. 20. Retrieved 2018-01-31 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Stein, Beth (2001-09-27). "Families Can Thrive With Dad at Home". The Tennessean. p. 36. Retrieved 2018-01-31 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Stay-at-Home Dads". Adolescence. 40 (449): 158. Summer 2005 – via EBSCOhost.
^ "Nonfiction Book Review: TRAVELING HOPEFULLY: How to Lose Your Baggage and Jumpstart Your Life". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2018-01-31.
^ "International Executive Coach, Brand Strategist and Bestselling Author Libby Gill". Chris Treece Show. March 2011. Retrieved 2014-10-10.
^ "2010 Medalists". IPPY Awards. Retrieved 2018-01-31.
^ Gruszecki, Debra (2007-11-10). "Branding Power". The Desert Sun. p. 65. Retrieved 2018-01-31 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Libby Gill Biography". All American Speakers Bureau. Retrieved 1 February 2023.