Gill is the Academic Director for Coaching at ICE which means she has oversight and responsibility for the Coaching Portfolio of courses. Gill is also the Course Director for the newly launched MSt in Coaching. Previously she was the Course Director and tutor for the Diploma in Coaching (DIC).
Prior to joining ICE, Gill lived and worked in the Philippines for 5 years where she was deeply involved in the world of coaching whilst teaching Human Behaviour in Organisations at the Asian Institute of Management, (AIM) in Manila, Philippines.
Gill is a professionally qualified coach whose coaching practice and experience span a range of organization levels, generations and cultures; and with experience of designing and delivering coach training programmes for different purposes within different industry sectors.
As a coach Gill draws on a range of approaches, tools and techniques that she aims to use appropriately and always in the service of the client. Her coaching philosophy is underpinned by various approaches, the main one being based on Gestalt psychology. Gill’s focus is to help clients understand their current issues and challenges and to help them discover what may be preventing them from achieving their future goals and aspirations whilst at the same time helping them to acknowledge their past appropriately.
In addition to her coaching work, Gill has developed an additional focus to her consultancy business with Level Seven, that helps teams and organisations to solve complex problems by applying design thinking. She finds that many of the principles that underpin design thinking are relevant to coaching.
The subject of Gill’s PhD was the development of intuition within the context of the management problem-solving process. She now recognises, appreciates and values the role of intuition in the context of coaching.
Her downtime pursuits include learning the violin, the Argentine tango and visiting art galleries (but not all at the same time!)
