“ I created 
out of a desire to drive simplicity into how complex problems are solved. It’s easy to make things complicated; it’s hard to make things simple. “
Gill McLaren is an experienced executive leader and innovator. She is an engaging speaker and sought-after consultant and coach. Gill is the CEO Founder of .
helps to solve problems worth solving and make a difference.
The 3-step method combines business strategy, consultancy and coaching to bring about practical and positive change solutions both for individual leaders and leadership teams.
She has adapted strategic planning approaches from the business world to create a unique coaching and personal consultancy approach that enables her clients to achieve success in all aspects of their life.
She has worked in executive leadership roles at Coca-Cola in General Management, Strategic Planning, Commercial, Customer and Marketing across the UK, Australia, Malaysia and Singapore.
Gill says, “over the course of my corporate career I’ve had the privilege to work with and in amazing teams and with great people. My career journey has given me deep experiences of a variety of functions in a number of countries and across many cultures that has enabled me to work with a highly diverse range of colleagues and friends. I utilise this wide experience to make my coaching and consulting pragmatic, using real life experience combined with deep listening’.
Combination of strategic and business thinking alongside coaching helps individuals, teams and organisations work on what creates their best life and create plans to solve problems worth solving for solutions that work.
She published the book Think.Plan.Live. in 2017 based on her breadth and depth of strategic experience to bring to people who want to live their best life. Since then she has worked with individuals, teams and organisations to synthesise the unique life fingerprint of each person to build inclusive culture and dream teams, and to support leaders and executives in their journey. She is a passionate and engaging speaker, a highly skilled panelist and chair, and a courageous and effective facilitator.
When you work with Gill you get a unique matrix of capacity and skill: she is essentially a designer, and collaboratively designs the solution using a mix of coaching, strategy and consulting. You might enter your journey with Gill through individual work, and then find yourself working with your team and you organisation, or you might request help with your team and land up working individually with Gill or with the whole organisation. You’ll be challenged to discover your unique best leadership techniques through your unique operating model, and your team will work on leadership team dynamics, strategy coaching, life design foundations or HDBI. As an organisation you’ll look beyond teams, interconnecing teams and building an eco-system based on the organisation’s cultural fingerprint. When you work with Gill you’ll get a mash-up with personal development, team development and organisational change based on rigorous discovery.
A note from Gill
“I coach senior leaders and executives to make a success of their personal and professional lives. The clients I help are driven by a sense of achievement and feeling that they want to make a difference in the world. They want to continue to build a successful senior career where they reach their full potential. But equally important to them is achieving this in an integrated way that enables them to create and build a happy family and personal life too. In essence I help people define and design what their best life looks like, and forward plans and actions that lets them live it to the full. Through a step-by-step approach I help business leaders work to define and then live up to their personal potential and ultimately live an integrated best life”
Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more.
If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey
Let go of who you think you are supposed to be. Embrace who you are.
- Brene Brown, PhD
Leadership is hard to define and good leadership is even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader
-Indra Nooyi
I learned to always take on things I'd never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist.
- Virginia M. Rometty
I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought, versus what I thought people wanted to hear me say
- Ursula Burns
What I know is, that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfils you, the rest will come.
- Oprah Winfrey
We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.
- Arianna Huffington
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
- Warren Buffett
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humur, and some style.
- Maya Angelou
If People are doubting how far you can go, go so far that you can't hear them anymore.
- Michele Ruiz
There is no passion to be found playing small- in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
- Maya Angelou
Look for 3 things in a person- Intelligence, energy & integrity. If they don't have the last one, don't even bother with the first two.
- Warren Buffett
The most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
- Mark Twain
The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else's highlight reel.
- Steve Furtick
Don't find fault, find a remedy. Anybody can complain.
- Henry Ford
If you aren't making a difference in other people's lives, you shouldn't be in business- it's that simple.
- Richard Branson
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
- Maya Angelou
The difference between successful people and really successful people, is that really successful people say no to almost everything.
- Warren Buffett
If you don't know what your passion is, realize that one reason for your existence on earth is to find it.
- Oprah Winfrey
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
- Oprah Winfrey
If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.
- Maya Angelou
Don't go around saying the world owes you nothing. It was here first
- Mark Twain
Success is commonly defined as money and power, but that's like a two-legged stool, and you will fall over if that's all that you measure your life by.
- Arianna Huffington
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbur. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Mark Twain
Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better do better.
- Maya Angelou
Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you.
- Dr. Seuss
The best advice I could give anyone is to spend your time working on whatever you are passionate about in life.
- Richard Branson
Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
Everyone who got where he is, has had to begin where he was.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
- Dr. Seuss
Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.
- Brene Brown
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do; you can act to change and control your life.
- Amelia Earhart
Your dreams don't work unless you do.
- John C. Maxwell
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page
- St. Augustine
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.
- C.S. Lewis
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
- Henry David Thoreau
Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.
- Dr. Seuss
Live as is you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
- Mahatma Gandhi
If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than 5 minutes.
- Albert Einstein
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made feel them.
- Maya Angelou