Gill Simpson

Professional Coach, United Kingdom

Gill is an experienced coach and facilitator, specialising in working parent coaching.

Background

Inspired by her own experiences of being coached during key transition points in her career, she helps clients explore their own transitions through a blend of support and gentle challenge. She is also a skilled group coach and facilitator, creating warm and safe places for people to go beyond the presenting issue and explore their issues more deeply and honestly. Whether coaching or facilitating, her aim is always to support people to think brilliantly for themselves, helping them to feel more resourced and more resourceful to deal with whatever life may be throwing at them!

Before becoming a full-time coach, Gill spent 20 years working in the private sector, holding a number of senior leadership roles across marketing, CSR, HR and Corporate Affairs. She is most proud of joining the UK board team at Danone as a part-time working mum, demonstrating that flexible work patterns need not be a barrier to career progression and business success. Gill brings all of this experience to her coaching practice, helping clients to lead their lives with a greater sense of purpose, balance and authenticity.

Experience and qualifications

Gill has been coaching since 2012, initially as an internal coach and then more recently as an external coach working with CEO’s, senior leaders and managers across a wide range of sectors including FMCG, healthcare, media and communications, banking and hospitality. Gill is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coach Federation and holds a post-graduate certificate in business and personal coaching. She is also a qualified parent coach and an experienced group coach. Gill specialises in coaching busy working parents, helping them manage the balance of work and family life, and she is an accredited facilitator of ‘Coaching Skills for Parents’ programme and is also a coach for the ‘Parental Transition Coaching Qualification‘.