{{Short description|American speaker and coach}}
{{Infobox person | name = Libby Gill |image = Libby Gill at LA Times Festival of Books 2025 (cropped).jpg |caption = Gill at LA Times Festival of Books 2025 | birth_date = 1954 | birth_place = Geneva, New York | alma_mater = California State University, Long Beach | occupation = Leadership speaker, executive coach, writer, CEO of Libby Gill & Company | children = 2 | website = {{URL|http://www.libbygill.com/}} }}
'''Libby Gill''' is an American speaker, coach, and author from Los Angeles, California.<ref name="dallasmorningnews">{{cite news|title=Solutions|first=Sarah|last=Kerner|date=2006-02-06|newspaper=The Dallas Morning News}}</ref><ref name="tfw">{{cite journal|title=You Unstuck: Creating Your Wow Career |date=Winter 2010|publisher=Today’s Financial Women}}</ref><ref name="ocregister">{{cite journal|title=How to avoid being derailed by midlife crisis |date=2005-04-24|author=Jane Glenn Haas|publisher=Orange Country Register}}</ref><ref name="drphil">{{cite web|url=http://www.drphil.com/articles/article/208|title=Traveling Hopefully: Q & A with Libby Gill|access-date=2014-10-10}}</ref> 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.<ref name="goodhousekeeping">{{cite journal|last=Coyne|first=Kate|date=March 2005|title=Dr. Phil's secret weapon|url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=16314749&site=ehost-live|journal=Good Housekeeping|volume=240|issue=3|pages=146|url-access=subscription |via=EBSCOhost}}</ref>
She is a former columnist for ''The Dallas Morning News''.<ref name="businessspeakersbureau">{{cite web|url=http://www.businessspeakersbureau.com/espeakers/8428/Libby-Gill.html?topic=-1|title=Libby Gill|access-date=2014-10-10|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141022132015/http://www.businessspeakersbureau.com/espeakers/8428/Libby-Gill.html?topic=-1|archive-date=2014-10-22}}</ref>
==Early life and education== Gill was born in New York and raised in Mandarin, Florida.<ref name=dallasmorningnews /> 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.<ref name=dallasmorningnews /><ref name=goodhousekeeping /> She attended California State University, Long Beach and earned a degree in theater.<ref name=dallasmorningnews />
==Career== In 1995, she was appointed to senior vice president of media relations at the Universal Television group.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/17029860/the_los_angeles_times/|title=Maverick's Konowitch Outsted|date=1995-12-12|work=The Los Angeles Times|access-date=2018-01-31|pages=64|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=12 October 2000|title=VP Exits Studios USA to Set up Libby Gill & Go.|url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&AN=3672680&site=ehost-live|journal=Daily Variety|volume=269|pages=6|url-access=subscription |via=EBSCOhost}}</ref> Her clients include AMC Networks, Avery Dennison, CA Technologies, Disney-ABC, Kellogg's, Microsoft, PayPal, Wells Fargo, and others.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/17015090/the_cincinnati_enquirer/|title=Gill to Speak at NKY Chamber Women's Initiative Regional Summit|date=2017-09-07|work=The Cincinnati Enquirer|access-date=2018-01-31|pages=B4|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
She began writing about her experiences as an executive and teaching at California State, Northridge.<ref name="goodhousekeeping" /><ref name="wirlsummit">{{cite web|url=http://www.wirlsummit.com/confidence-critical-libby-gill/|title=Why Confidence is Critical: Libby Gill|last=Shepard|first=Mitch|date=2014-02-03|access-date=2014-10-10}}</ref> She authored seven books and shared her experiences in ''Time'',<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,338616,00.html|title=Domestic Dads|last=Barovick|first=Harriet|date=2002-08-18|magazine=Time|access-date=2018-01-31|language=en-US|issn=0040-781X}}</ref> ''The New York Times,''<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/01/jobs/when-stay-at-home-fathers-return-to-work-elsewhere.html|title=When Stay-at-Home Fathers Return to Work (Elsewhere)|last=Lawlor|first=Julia|date=2004-08-01|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-01-31|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> and ''The Wall Street Journal''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB106184492170212200|title=Stay-at-Home Dads Fight Stigma|last=Dunham|first=Kemba J.|date=2003-08-26|work=Wall Street Journal|access-date=2018-01-31|language=en-US|issn=0099-9660|url-access=subscription }}</ref> thumb|Gill in 2006 ''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.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/17015007/the_star_press/|title=Welcome Home|date=2002-06-11|work=The Star Press|access-date=2018-01-31|pages=20|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/17030684/the_tennessean/|title=Families Can Thrive With Dad at Home|last=Stein|first=Beth|date=2001-09-27|work=The Tennessean|access-date=2018-01-31|pages=36|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> The journal, ''Adolescence'', called it a "step by step blueprint for transitioning into a stay-at-home-dad family."<ref>{{Cite journal|date=Summer 2005|title=Stay-at-Home Dads|url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=17582518&site=ehost-live|journal=Adolescence|volume=40|issue=449|pages=158|url-access=subscription |via=EBSCOhost}}</ref>
''Traveling Hopefully: How to Lose Your Baggage and Jumpstart Your Life'' (2005) includes personal stories from her own childhood traumas.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-312-32394-3|title=Nonfiction Book Review: TRAVELING HOPEFULLY: How to Lose Your Baggage and Jumpstart Your Life|work=Publishers Weekly|access-date=2018-01-31|language=en}}</ref> 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.<ref name="blogtalkradio">{{cite web|url=http://www.blogtalkradio.com/chris-treece/2011/03/01/international-executive-coach-brand-strategist-and-bestselling-author-libby-gill|title=International Executive Coach, Brand Strategist and Bestselling Author Libby Gill|website=Chris Treece Show|date=March 2011 |access-date=2014-10-10}}</ref> She earned a silver award and was tied with Leanne Cusumano Roque who wrote ''Live Light: Simple Steps''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ippyawards.com/108/medalists/2010-medalists|title=2010 Medalists|website=IPPY Awards|date=18 September 2010 |language=en|access-date=2018-01-31}}</ref>
Gill was the media consultant for the ''Dr Phil'' television show.<ref name=goodhousekeeping /> ''The Desert Sun'' called her "the brains behind the ''Dr. Phil'' show."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/17014776/the_desert_sun/|title=Branding Power|last=Gruszecki|first=Debra|date=2007-11-10|work=The Desert Sun|access-date=2018-01-31|pages=65|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
==Personal life== Gill lives in Medford, Oregon with her husband, attorney David Stern, and is the mother of two sons.<ref>{{cite web |title=Libby Gill Biography |url=https://www.allamericanspeakers.com/celebritytalentbios/Libby+Gill/4071 |website=All American Speakers Bureau |access-date=1 February 2023}}</ref>
==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}}
==References== {{Reflist|2}}
==External links== *[http://www.libbygill.com Official Website]
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