An entertainment industry veteran, Libby Gill spent fifteen years heading public relations and corporate communications as senior vice president at Universal Studios; and vice president at Sony Pictures Entertainment and Turner Broadcasting. She was also the PR/branding brain behind the launch of the Dr. Phil Show.

Libby is now an internationally respected executive 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, O Magazine, Good Housekeeping, Self and many more.

With a focus on igniting bold leadership at all levels of the organization, Libby delivers keynote addresses and training programs for companies desiring to create a culture of accountability and excellence even in times of uncertainty. Her proven "Clarify, Simplify & Execute" process inspires individuals and organizations to maximize their "Leadership DNA," build high-passion/high-performance teams; and increase employee engagement.

Among her achievements, Libby is most proud of having guided many professionals to career success. Her former staff members now hold senior management positions at CBS Entertainment, ESPN, Universal, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Sony, ABC-Disney 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 non-profit or entrepreneurial ventures.

As a consultant, 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. Along the way, Libby also served in a creative capacity as vice president of television programming and development for Universal's Studios USA working on syndicated talk and reality shows.

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 (St. Martin's Press).

Libby's new bestseller, You Unstuck: Mastering the New Rules of Risk-taking in Work and Life, was released in September 2009. Business leaders including Zappos.com CEO Tony Hsieh and Dr. Ken Blanchard have endorsed her book. States Blanchard, "In You Unstuck, Libby Gill will help you understand the way you look at risk-taking so you can start moving past your fears and excuses toward success. This book is a powerful tool if you know you need to change but don't know how. Read YOU UNSTUCK and get your life on track."

Libby's clients have included Microsoft, Pfizer, USAA, Lycos, Sprint, Capital One, Celebree Learning Centers, Deloitte & Touche, Hewlett-Packard, Natural Products Association, The Boeing Company, Triad Hospitals, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Healthcare Businesswomen's Association, International Association of Administrative Professionals, Cadbury Schweppes, PitneyBowes, State Farm, Financial Women International, Andrews-Kurth Legal; Parsons Brinckerhoff, National Kitchen & Bath Association and more.

• Igniting Bold Leadership at All Levels - A corporate entertainment veteran, Libby Gill held senior management positions in public relations and communications at Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal Studios and Turner Broadcasting, and was also the branding brain behind the launch of the Dr. Phil Show. During her 15-year Hollywood tenure in an industry known for cutthroat competition, she survived more than a dozen management restructures, transitions and takeovers. Yet with each change, Libby positioned her company to maintain their competitive edge - and emerged as a leader herself.
  
  Rising rapidly up the corporate ladder, Libby moved from office temp to C-suite division head in just five years. Now she shares her leadership strategies with organizations around the world who strive to create a culture of excellence, despite difficult times. With her proven "Clarify, Simplify & Execute" process, Libby guides corporations and individuals - from start-ups to CEOs - to create bold leaders at every level of the organization.
  
  
• Creating a Culture of Accountability - What are the limiting assumptions that your leaders, managers and employees are making about your business every single day? And what happens to profitability, productivity and morale when those limiting assumptions go unchallenged? Those are the questions that Libby Gill asks when she addresses organizations that are ready to vanquish business as usual.
  
  
• Capture the Mindshare and the Market Share Will Follow - 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, loyalty, heads and hearts - the market share will follow. So how do you do capture the mindshare?
  
  
• Inspiring High-Passion / High-Performance Teams - In work as in life, nothing kills passion faster than unwarranted criticism and constant backbiting. Conversely, nothing builds performance faster than curiosity, trust and respect. 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.