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Libby Gill
American speaker and coach From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Libby Gill is an American speaker, coach, and author from Los Angeles, California.[1][2][3][4] She is the CEO of Libby Gill & Company. She was also the Senior Vice President at Universal Studios Television, Vice President at Sony Pictures Television, and Turner Broadcasting.[5]
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She is a former columnist for The Dallas Morning News.[6]
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Early life and education
Gill was born in New York and raised in Mandarin, Florida.[1] She subsequently lived in Yokosuka, Japan and Manhattan Beach and Los Angeles California. 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]
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In 1995, she was appointed to senior vice president of media relations at the Universal Television group.[7] Gill had senior positions at Turner Broadcasting 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 California State, Northridge.[5][10] She authored seven 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][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]
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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
- Leadership Reckoning: Can Higher Education Develop the Leaders We Need?(2021, with Thomas Kolditz and Ryan P. Brown), ISBN 978-1952938368
- The Hope-Driven Leader: Harness the Power of Positivity at Work (2018), ISBN 978-1635763751
- Capture the Mindshare and the Market Share Will Follow: The Art and Science of Building Brands (2013), ISBN 978-1137278517
- You Unstuck: Mastering the New Rules of Risk-Taking at Work and in Life (2009), ISBN 978-1932361681
- Traveling Hopefully: How to Lose Your Family Baggage and Jumpstart Your Life (2005), ISBN 0-312-32394-8
- Stay-At-Home Dads: The Essential Guide to Creating the New Family (2001), ISBN 0-452-28274-8
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