Libby Gill is a leadership speaker, executive coach and author in

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. She also is the

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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

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. She is a former columnist for ''

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Early life and education

Gill was born in New York and raised in

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. She was one of six children and the daughter of a psychiatrist. She attended

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and earned a degree in theater.

Career

In 1995, she was appointed to senior vice president of media relations at the

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group. Gill had senior leadership positions at

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and

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for fifteen years before founding Libby Gill & Company, an executive coaching and consulting firm, in November 2000. Her clients include AMC Networks, Avery Dennison, CA Technologies, Disney-ABC, Kellogg's, Microsoft, PayPal, Wells Fargo, and others. She began writing about her experiences as an executive and teaching at a local university. She has also taught at California State, Northridge. She authored four books and shared her experiences in ''

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''. ''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

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. After ten years of her husband being the primary caregiver in the house, she wrote the book. The journal, ''Adolescence'', called it a "step by step blueprint for transitioning into a stay-at-home-dad family." ''Traveling Hopefully: How to Lose Your Baggage and Jumpstart Your Life'' (2005) includes personal stories from her own childhood traumas. 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. She earned a silver award and was tied with Leanne Cusumano Roque who wrote ''Live Light: Simple Steps''. Gill was the media consultant for the ''

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'' called her "the brains behind the ''Dr. Phil'' show."

Personal life

Gill lives in

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with her husband, attorney David Stern, and is the mother of two sons.

Bibliography

*''Stay-At-Home Dads: The Essential Guide to Creating the New Family'' (2001), *''Traveling Hopefully: How to Lose Your Family Baggage and Jumpstart Your Life'' (2005), *''You Unstuck: Mastering the New Rules of Risk-Taking at Work and in Life'' (2009), *''Capture the Mindshare and the Market Share Will Follow: The Art and Science of Building Brands'' (2013), *''The Hope-Driven Leader: Harness the Power of Positivity at Work'' (2018), *''Leadership Reckoning: Can Higher Education Develop the Leaders We Need?''(2021, with Thomas Kolditz and Ryan P. Brown),

References

External links

Official Website
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