Gill Lane has worked as a coach, mentor and trainer for over thirty years.

With a personal philosophy of wanting to help people to develop themselves she coaches mentors and trains senior executives across all sectors, type and size of business. The focus ranges from current challenges such as business strategy and managing change, to career direction and aspects of personal development including interpersonal skills and managing stress.

Gill began her career within the UK National Health Service, where she coached and mentored graduate trainees and all levels and disciplines of management over an eighteen year period, culminating in a post as Human Resources Director. During these eighteen years she coached groups, teams and individuals in various management, interpersonal and inter-team aspects, in addition to her more general HR role.

Following her Health Service career, Gill set up her own coaching and development consultancy, alongside a full-time academic role at Henley Management College, a post Gill held for nine years.

At Henley, Gill's main academic role - some of which continues to this day as a Visiting Fellow - is to coach and mentor Chief Executives, Directors, Senior Managers and Senior Academics on Henley's International Doctoral and Executive Development Programmes, and to teach, supervise and coach MBA participants. Gill also led Government funded research into Standards of Competence of Senior Management and comparison of those Competence frameworks with The Guide to Good Practice for Directors. Other research led by Gill included Work-based Learning, Training of Trainers and Computer Mediated Communication. She sat on Henley's Approvals and Accreditation Committee as Accreditation Advisor.

Gill consolidated her consultancy and academic roles with the formation of Gill Lane Executive Development in early 1998 to include the coaching, mentoring and training of senior executives, managers and professionals on a one-to-one, team and group basis. Gill Lane Associates was formed as a part of that consultancy in the year 2000.

Operating internationally, Gill was a member of the American Academy of Human Resource Development by invitation for five years to 2000. She holds a Masters Degree in Public Sector Management, an Advanced Postgraduate Diploma in Management Consultancy, is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, and is a Non-executive Director with an NHS Trust and with the East Midlands region of the National Trust. She was also a Member of the Institute of Health Service Management for sixteen years and reamins a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts by invitation. Doctoral level research into competences of mentors has been a particular interest. Her latest book - 'The Situational Mentor' by David Clutterbuck and Gill Lane - was published in April 2004 (publisher: Gower).

For more details see Gill's CV