Exemplary leaders don’t just execute, they inspire. As part of our Women in Leadership series, We will explore the tools and techniques to become a more effective, motivating, and persuasive leader in the face of disruptive change. Lead amongst the noise and focus yourself and your team on what matters most.
We’ve brought together three of incredible leaders to talk through this important topic: Libby Gill, a leading change management expert, Tina Dobie, Chief Customer Officer at Calendly, and Felicia Jones, Managing Director at Accenture. These three women will talk about how they motivate and thrive through complex challenges. You’ll leave today’s session learning how to lead amongst the noise and focus yourself and your team on what matters most. .
We'd like to recognize that this event is not solely for cisgender women. We welcome anyone who is interested in improving their awareness, understanding, and allyship that’s central to creating an equal world for all.
Libby Gill, Leadership Expert, Executive Coach, Author
Libby Gill knows change. She grew up on two continents and went to eight different schools before putting herself through college waiting tables. Starting her career as an assistant at Embassy Communications, a television company founded by the legendary Norman Lear, Libby survived three mergers to become head of publicity, advertising, and promotion for Sony’s worldwide television group in just five years.
After her first career heading communications at media giants Sony, Universal, and Turner Broadcasting, Libby founded LA-based Libby Gill & Company, a leadership consulting and executive coaching firm. She guides individuals and organizations to lead through change, challenge, and chaos by deeply engaging employees in a shared future-focused vision of success.
Libby guides emerging and established women leaders through workplace challenges including career advancement; gender bias; visibility and exposure; connection-leveraging; and work/life balance. With intelligence and humor, she shares an inspirational blend of leadership strategies and hard-won secrets to success.
Libby is the author of five books, including the award-winning You Unstuck, Capture the Mindshare and the Market Share Will Follow, and Traveling Hopefully. Her latest book is The Hope-Driven Leader: Harness the Power of Positivity at Work.
Tina Dobie, Chief Customer Officer, Calendly
Tina Dobie is the Chief Customer Officer at Calendly, where she leads the Customer Experience team of experts to onboard customers, drive product adoption, and deliver world-class customer education and support.
Tina brings over two and a half decades of experience in the SaaS and management consulting industries, where she’s built and scaled global teams at high-growth organizations. Previously she was the Chief Customer Officer at WP Engine. Prior to that, she was the Vice President of Client Services at Bazaarvoice. She’s also held brand management and consulting positions at Inquisite, Nestle USA, and AT Kearney.
She holds a Bachelor of Business Administration and a Master of Business Administration from the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin, and was a Fellow for the Consortium for Graduate Studies in Management.
Felicia Jones, Managing Director, Accenture
Engaged and trusted Senior Executive with expertise in combining business development, technology, change enablement, and relationship management fluencies to cultivate and implement effective, long-horizon enterprise business transformation strategies. Demonstrated leadership in the sales and management of complex, multidimensional programs involving an array of internal and external resources; recognized for helping organizations to significant growth and profitable contributions, including entries to new geographies. End-to-end knowledge in driving organizational alignment, strategy, roadmaps/lifecycle, goal attainment, and best practices per qualitative outcome measures. History of managing multiple, concurrent projects and positioning market share to the forefront. Surgical approach to reducing costs amid comprehensive, top to bottom expansions. Poised to advance relationships and partnerships.
Felicia holds a mathematics degree from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University.
Caitlin Keohane, SVP, Global Customer Advocacy
Caitlin Keohane, has held various leadership roles across Sales, Product, CX Strategy and Operations throughout her 10 years at Zendesk. She spent 2 years in Singapore working closely with our Chat product, engineering and GTM teams and recently led Sales & Success for our Zendesk Sell product. As the head of CX Strategy and now Global Advocacy, her focus is on creating a World Class Support Experience for our Customers and our Advocates