Gillian Jones-Williams
Personal Profile
Gillian Jones-Williams is an author & founder and Managing Director of Emerge Development Consultancy which she founded 30 years ago. Her understanding and application of psychology, hypnosis and Neuro Linguistic Programming allows her to build deep rapport and achieve outstanding and lasting behavioural changes with individuals and groups.
Background and Experience
Gillian is an expert in Inclusivity and Diversity having spent the last 9 years working with organisations to help them implement their D&I strategies.
As an author Gillian has published ‘50 Top Tools for Coaching’ which is now on its 5th edition. Gillian is an expert in organisational culture change and ‘How to Create a Coaching Culture’ is in its 2nd edition.
Gillian developed the Women’s Development programme RISE which is delivered in the UK, UAE and USA.
Gillian has an energetic, confident and humorous personality and is naturally inquisitive, direct and focused. She is highly experienced at helping people to identify ‘blind spots’ through giving objective and insightful feedback that ensures they feel empowered to make changes. Her focus in sessions is ensuring that the ‘real issue’ has been identified and that people are accountable for actions agreed. It is vital to Gillian that she enables clients to feel empowered and ready to take responsibility/ownership of the issues discussed.
Areas of Expertise
- Executive coaching
- Coaching culture Strategy
- Leadership Development
- Organisational Change
- Board Support and “repair”
- Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
- Visioning and Strategy
- Women’s confidence coaching programmes
- HR Team Development
- Coaching people who are perceived to have “bullying” behaviour
Professional Qualifications, Accreditation and Memberships
- Training and Development Lead Body Level 3 + 4 Certificate in Business Coaching
- Diploma in Performance Coaching
- Neuro Linguistic Programming Diploma
- Neuro Linguistic Programming Practitioner
- Diploma in Hypnosis
- ILM Level 3 Coaching & Mentoring
- ILM Level 5 Certificate in Coaching & Mentoring
- AC Accredited Master Executive Coach
- MBTI™ Practitioner
- Motivational Maps™ Practitioner
- Member of the Association for Coaching (AC)
Clients
- Airbus
- BAE Systems
- BBC
- Crown World Wide
- Harper Collins
- Mitsubishi
- Channel 4
- ECB
- Scottish Rugby Union
- Conde Nast
- KFC
- ESI Media
- Hilton Hotel Group
- Jaguar Land Rover
- Visa Europe
Coaching Assignments
- Coaching Women to prepare for the next role by eliminating Imposter Syndrome and increasing confidence
- Coaching directors in global organisations to manage multiple stakeholders
- Coaching Managing Directors and facilitating executive meetings to increase personal and organisational effectiveness.
- Executive Board “repair” and improvement
- Coaching leaders to develop Emotional Intelligence and Leadership Style