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Gill McLaren gives keynote speeches, provides interviews, coaches and run workshops in 3 main areas.
Authentic Leadership
Women in Leadership
Life Design: Think. Plan. Live
Authentic Leadership
Gill is a sought-after speaker on the topics of Authentic Leadership.
This has included speaking as an expert panellist for The Channel News Asia’s flagship panel discussion programme‘Perspectives’. Gill was asked to join the expert panel on the episode focused on “Leadership Beyond 2015”.
The programme was filmed in front of a live studio audience at Singapore Management University and Gill shared the stage with SMU President Professor Arnoud De Meyer; Mr Piyush Gupta, CEO & Director of DBS Group; Professor Kishore Mahbubani, Dean of Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy; with international journalist Mr TeymoorNabili as Presenter & Moderator.
The full Channel News Asia Perspectives Program, can be seen here .
An overview of the Gill’s views on the “Secret Formula of 3 Leadership Ingredients” can be found here.
She also gives engaging keynote talks at major conferences on the topic of 21St Leadership. Touching on areas such as being a corporate anthropologist, inclusive leadership and the art and science of leadership.
In 2015 Gill gave this talk at the Liquid Learning Women in Operations Conference, the talk received the ratings and feedback below.
Women in Leadership and Inclusive Leadership
Gill is a thought leader in the area of Women in Leadership and the cultural dynamics and adjustments needed within organisations to progress in the area of Diversity. In addition to her focus on gender diversity, Gill works in the area of inclusive leadership to enable organisations to unlock the potential of diverse team’s agnostic of gender, age and cultural background.
Whilst at Coca-Cola Gill was a member of the Global Women’s Leadership Council and Chair of the Pacific Women’s Leadership council, with a focus on the goal of achieving gender parity in senior leadership positions. Alongside her general management responsibilities this led her to facilitate and be a part of Women in Leadership conversations on the opportunities and barriers in countries all over the world including; Japan; UK; France; USA; Argentina; South Africa; Brazil; Hong Kong; Philippines; Singapore; Malaysia; Her journey has given her deep experiences of different functions, countries, people and cultures and the key enablers and barriers to progress in the area of diversity.
Coca-Cola’s progress in the Global Women’s Initiative was recognized by a Global Catalyst award in 2013, and Gill represented the company at the awards conference in New York to share best practice, specifically in the area of how you Recruit, Retain, Develop and Advance women in the organization.
Gill leads and facilitates programs in the area of Women in Leadership for major clients through Syntegrate. She also does this in collaboration with Liquid Learning who is a leading professional conference and workshop provider, whose events attract the participation
of business leaders and professionals from many of the world’s leading brands. Gill’s feedback from three recent events for Liquid Learning is Given below
Event : The Women in Operations Leadership Summit 2016 : Visions of Success
Role: Both spoke at the event and ran the 1 day post summit Workshop
Speaker on: ‘The Art and Science of 21st Century Leadership”
Feedback from participants:
| Score /5 | Rating | |
| Knowledge of the subject: | 4.45 | Very Good |
| Relevance | 4.31 | Very Good |
| Standard of Presentation | 4.43 | Very Good |
Pre-Summit Workshop with the theme of “Turning Knowledge into Strategy: Applying an Adaptive and Authentic Leadership Style to Overcome Complex Challenges”
Feedback from participants:
Event: The Women in Communications and PR Leadership Summit 2016, Sydney
Role: Chaired the Conference and Ran the Post Summit Workshop
Speaker on: ‘The Art and Science of 21st Century Leadership”
Chairperson: Chairing the two-day conference, introducing speakers, facilitating Q&A and chairing two expert panels
| Score /5 | Rating | |
| Ability to Facilitate: | 4.00 | Very Good |
| Knowledge of the subject: | 4.25 | Very Good |
| Relevance | 4.50 | Very Good – Excellent |
| Standard of Presentation | 4.25 | Very Good |
“Gill was a terrific facilitator. Very personable, intelligent and has a good approach to when / how to stimulate conversation”
Event: Women in Retail and FMCG Leadership Summit 2017: Making It Happen, Melbourne
Role: Chaired the Conference and gave the closing talk on “Best Life Design and unlocking your Unique Life Fingerprint”
Feedback from participants:
Chairperson role and presentation was rated on 3 factors:
| Score /5 | Rating | |
| Knowledge of the subject: | 4.80 | Very Good – Excellent |
| Relevance | 4.60 | Very Good – Excellent |
| Standard of Presentation | 4.80 | Very Good – Excellent |
Team Women Australia
In 2017 Gill has joined forces with Kylee Fitzpatrick the Founder and CEO of Team Women Australia as Co-Founder, to build TWA as a powerful movement of change. Further information on the goals can be found at http://teamwomenaustralia.com.au/
“Team Women Australia is a movement dedicated to the power of storytelling to impact change”
For International Women’s Day Gill spoke at the ‘Your Story Matters’ event at The Arthouse, Sydney. The inspirational event brought together speakers who shared their stories, great music, great food and great conversations between the 120 attendees. A flavor of the event can be seen in the pictures below:
Radio Interview On Women In Leadership
Gill has also given radio interviews in both Singapore and Malaysia. Her radio interview for Singapore Radio Station 938 Live with Michelle Martin was a live interview on the Women of Worth Club programme. Where she shared her personal view on Women in Leadership at Coca-Cola, Economic empowerment of Women and how she has maintainedbalance between her successful career and being a Mum.
Michelle referred to it as “A Refreshing Take on Diversity and Economic Empowerment”
The full interview can be heard from this clip.
Storm Magazine Interview on discovering your unique life fingerprint
Interview with Jane Jackson on her career podcast
Life Design: Think. Plan. Live
Gill gives Keynote speeches and runs Workshops, Women in Leadership Programmes and 1:1 Coaching in the area of Life Design.
She has also the author of “Think. Plan. Live Define and design your Best Life in 6 simple steps” through which she takes readers on an engaging and practical journey on how you create and live your best life.
Her book will be officially launched in June 27th.
Life Design courses take a number of different formats. The Webinar version supplement the existing 1:1 and workshop programs. The Life Design portal will also be launched to co-incide with the Think. Plan. Live. launch
Gill also works with corporate clients to create tailored Women in Leadership programs incorporating Life Design. These workshops dovetail in with existing Leadership programs the organization has, to accelerate the development of women, but also to inform what organizational changes are needed within the organization for the Women to thrive.
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Gill McLaren
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Email : gill@syntegrate.co
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