An entertainment industry veteran, Libby Gill spent fifteen years heading public relations and corporation communications as senior vice President at Universal Studios; vice president at Sony Pictures Entertainment and Turner Broadcasting and was also the PR/branding brain behind the launch of the Dr. Phil Show.
Libby is now an internationally respected executive coach, employee engagement expert and bestselling author. She has shared her success strategies on the Today Show, The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, CNN, NPR, Oprah & Friends Radio Network, Fox News, CBS Early Show, and in Time Magazine, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, O Magazine, Good Housekeeping, Self and many more.
With a focus on inspiring excellence in times of uncertainty, Libby delivers keynote addresses and training programs for companies desiring to maximize a multi-generational workforce. Her “Clarify, Simplify & Execute” process helps individuals and organizations increase employee engagement, create high-passion teams and lead the Gen Y workforce to success, critically important as millions of Baby Boomers are poised for retirement, potentially taking decades of experience and expertise with them.
Among her corporate achievements, Libby is most proud of having guided many young employees to career success. Her former staff members now hold senior management positions at CBS Entertainment, ESPN, Universal, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Sony, Disney/ABC and many other organizations. Her coaching clients have also achieved great success in transitioning from one industry to another, climbing the corporate ladder and launching entrepreneurial ventures.
Libby was instrumental in creating the comprehensive media launch that catapulted Dr. Phil to the highest ratings in daytime television since the Oprah Winfrey Show debuted. After starting her career as a temporary office assistant, in just five years Libby worked her way up to VP of publicity, advertising and promotion at Sony before moving on to Turner Broadcasting and Universal. In one of several unusual career moves, Libby then moved into a creative position and became Vice President of television programming and development for Universal’s Studios USA.
Having decided she needed to completely re-balance her life, Libby left the corporate world and founded Libby Gill & Company in November 2000, which is focused on creating client success through powerful personal and business brands. 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 and mental illness in her bestselling book TRAVELING HOPEFULLY: How to Lose Your Baggage and Jumpstart Your Life (St. Martin’s Press).
Libby’s clients have included Microsoft, Pfizer, USAA, Lycos, Sprint, Capital One, Lockheed Martin, Deloitte & Touche, Hewlett-Packard, Natural Products Association, The Boeing Company, Triad Hospitals, PricewaterhouseCoopers, International Association of Administrative Professionals, Cadbury Schweppes, PitneyBowes, State Farm, Parsons Brinckerhoff, National Kitchen & Bath Association and more.
Libby, who is the mother of two teen-aged sons, lives in Los Angeles, California. She can sometimes be found chaperoning high school debate competitions or working backstage in the middle school drama department.
SPEECH TOPICS
Tough Choices for Changing Times
5 Strategies for Thriving Through Challenge, Chaos & Uncertainty
There’s only one constant in the world of business and that’s CHANGE. As if we weren’t already dealing with ongoing technological shifts, an ever-evolving 24/7 office, and the new multigenerational workforce – now we’ve got to figure out how to survive our current global economic crisis.
Managing the Multi-Generational Workforce
Leading Gen Y to Greatness
For the first time in our history, we have four distinct age groups working side by side in our nation’s offices, factories and showrooms. If navigating the generational divide weren’t challenge enough, in just two years more than one-third of our workforce will begin to retire, taking decades of knowledge and experience with them.
Creating High-Passion Teams
Maintaining a Culture of Excellence & Engagement
In work as in life, nothing kills passion faster than unwarranted criticism and constant backbiting. Conversely, nothing builds passion faster than curiosity, trust and respect. And, more than ever before, teamwork requires passion.
With the increased complexity of cross-business reporting structures, interdependent skill-sets and the advent of the virtual office, it is essential that individuals learn to function in well-integrated teams that create long-term results.
Capture the Mindshare and the Market Share Will Follow
5 Strategies for Creating a Powerful Brand
In these challenging times, it’s more important than ever that your brand cuts through the clutter and captures the mindshare of your customers and clients. Because once you’ve got their mindshare – that is, their trust and loyalty - the market share will follow. So how do you do capture the mindshare?