Libby joined the Solutionz Board of Executive Advisors in 2009. She brings to the Solutionz Group deep expertise in corporate branding.
An entertainment industry veteran, Libby Gill spent fifteen years
heading public relations and corporate communications at Universal Studios,
Sony Pictures Entertainment and Turner Broadcasting. She was also the branding
brain behind the launch of the Dr. Phil Show.
Libby is now an internationally respected executive coach,
speaker 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.
Libby has worked as a tap dancing bear, a hand model, a talking
Christmas tree, a waitress on the Queen Mary (non-ocean going), a college
instructor, a soap opera actress and a Hollywood studio executive. Her
diverse (okay, weird) background has made her a highly specialized generalist
in peak performance and brand excellence.
As a corporate entertainment veteran, Libby held senior
management positions in public relations and communications at Sony, Universal
and Turner Broadcasting, as well as being the branding brain behind the launch
of the Dr. Phil Show. During her
15-year Hollywood tenure, she survived more than a dozen management
restructures, transitions and takeovers. Despite the shifting sands of
studio life, with each change Libby was able to help position her organization
for greater success. At the same time, she rose rapidly up the corporate
ladder, moving from office temp to C-suite in just five years.
Libby is now an
internationally respected business coach, brand strategist 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, the New York Daily News and many more.
With her proven “Clarify,
Simplify & Execute” process, Libby guides executives and entrepreneurs
- from entry-level to senior management - to learn the lessons of change so
they can not only survive but thrive in difficult times. Among her achievements,
Libby is most proud of having guided many executives and entrepreneurs 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.
In November 2000, Libby
left the corporate world to found Libby Gill & Company. As she was
reinventing her professional life, Libby’s personal life also underwent a major
transition. She chronicled her journey of overcoming 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).
Her third book, YOU UNSTUCK: Mastering the New Rules of Risk-taking in Work
& Life, will be published in September ’09.
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.
