In brief
Gillian focuses on the importance of business resilience providing her audiences and clients with smart ways to embed this into their business. She also works with business leaders to ensure that they become resilient, able to cope with all the pressures that go with a leadership role.
She is a UK chartered accountant, business strategist and creative marketer who has integrated her many years of international business experience in corporate and consulting into one package – Business Resiliency. She works with businesses to assess their level of resilience, to build a resilient business, develop resilient leaders and resilient teams. Gillian is also passionate about helping entrepreneurs start and grow sustainable, resilient businesses.
Over the past years she has developed programmes for startups and established business owners some of which she has delivered at McGill University in Montreal. She has been adjunct faculty on MBA programmes at HEC Montreal; the University of Economics in Prague and The Hague University of Applied Sciences and still teaches new venture creation and marketing courses at Summer schools in Europe. She works extensively with the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) as a tutor, coach and author.
In more detail
Gillian has a strong international track record in finance, the M & A process, strategic reviews, marketing and business development. Her sectoral experience is in tourism, travel, financial services, the cultural industries, publishing, food packaging, universities and government gained through an international career in the National Audit Office, UNESCO, the Thomas Cook Group, BTI Canada and as a business consultant.
Her professional life has taken her to Australia, South East Asia, the Middle East, Africa, North America and Europe. She has worked in France, Germany, Holland and the Czech Republic for extended periods and from 1999 to 2014 she divided her time between Canada and Europe. She now works in the UK and in Malta.
Gillian is a coach for the work based learning element of the CIPFA professional accounting qualification and an examiner for the Developing Strategy and Digital Analysis module.
Gillian has been an adjunct professor on the MBA programs at HEC Montréal (Sector Analysis), the University of Economics in Prague – Vysoká Škola Ekonomická v Praze (International Business Strategy) and The Hague University of Applied Sciences (Marketing Communications). and for many years taught various marketing and business strategy courses at Prague City University (in association with Teesside University). For several years she taught Strategy and Policy Development and Business Change Management for the CETC which provides tuition for all the modules leading to the CIPFA Professional Accountancy Qualification.
Gillian is a professional member of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accounting in the UK. She holds two Masters degrees, both by research, one in French Studies (Warwick University, UK) and the other in European Industrial Relations and HR (Keele University, UK). She also has a diploma in marketing management (Gestion de marketing) from HEC Montréal, Canada.
She is fluent in French and English and works professionally in both languages.
“Gillian is one of the most resilient people I have ever worked with. I can testify to this because I worked with her on a business transformation project in France. She was able to reconfigure the company in a cultural context that was new to her. And over the next 20 years, Gillian has always been able to reinvent herself, from country to country and from business to business, whether it was in the UK, France, Canada, Czech Republic, Malta or elsewhere. She proved she had what it takes to be resilient. Combined with her consulting experience and her academic background, she is particularly well placed to bring value to your business resilience projects.” Bruno Chaintron – founder of RoleCrafting – www.Rolecrafting.org
“Gillian is an expert on marketing resilience. She brings unique ideas to her business owner clients to not only increase their business, but to manage themselves through difficult times. That is really what resilience is about and Gillian understands that better than most marketing professionals I know. From a local shop to a larger corporation, Gillian creates strategies and helps clients work through dealing with problems they may face.” MItchell Beinhaker, Business Attorney, Beinhaker Law, LLC, https://linktr.ee/beinhakerlaw
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