Meryl Gilbert

Meryl Gilbert is an experienced business leader, EMCC Accredited Professional Coach, Facilitator, and is an MBTI and DISC Certified Practitioner.

During a corporate career spanning 30 years Meryl gained a wealth of experience from various industry sectors:- Automotive; Financial Services; Hospitality and towards the tail-end of her corporate career operated on the Executive Committee of a market leading $3.3 bn Global Payments company.

Meryl’s specific expertise lies in the arena of sales, customer management, people development and leadership across a range of sales channels.

At a time of significant challenge in her own career Meryl sparked an interest in and love for learning and development and all that it can do when it’s correctly utilised.

Meryl has worked with both companies and private individual such as: –

Royal Association for Deaf People; Leasys; TRL; Corbeau Seats; Duo Plc; National Tyres Plc; Covea Insurance Plc; Cherry Nurseries; Ashford School; Furley Page; Toomey Leasing Plc; Hitachi Capital Plc Westcoast Plc; XMA Plc, Well-being People; Phoenix Business Solutions

What people say about MGL

We utilised the training services of Meryl Gilbert…. to assist with a new business and account management workshop for our sales team. …..Both days [of training] Meryl ran the course content smoothly, effectively and in a professional manner….the team provided positive feedback and felt that they had been reminded of some good best practice. They also picked up some new techniques which they felt could be used in the field in the future.”

Alex Butcher, Sales Director, Toomey Leasing Group

“Meryl has a very engaging and natural manner and is brilliant at asking the right questions to enable me to really explore the areas that we were discussing. Meryl got to know and understand me quickly and this enables us to discuss some difficult topics in depth.I always leave sessions with Meryl feeling like I’ve just answered all of the big questions and concerns in my head entirely for myself. My confidence grew massively through our time working together.”

Julia Clarke, Principle Consultant, Newton Europe Plc.

“Working with Meryl was a revelation! Her techniques are simply impressive and have proved to be extremely efficient, allowing me to rediscover myself. I spent 3-4 months reflecting and soul-searching at every given opportunity, almost craving for that long 3 hours journey in the car to think things over! I now have a much deeper understanding of what makes me ‘tick’ – how I can control and manage my fears (whether founded or not) what I can improve and how. Thank you, Meryl I feel in control again.”

Laura Grancerof, Partnership Manager, The RAC

“MGL undertook a brilliant marketing effectiveness review to help us understand the support we were delivering to internal stakeholders, and to explore how marketing could better support the business in future.

Meryl’s professional and self-starting nature meant she hit the ground running, and her approachable style, cut-through intelligence and gravitas was well received by senior stakeholders. A combination of which led to an insightful report with practical outcomes – an invaluable input to the marketing strategy process”.

Matt Schembri, Head of Marketing & Innovation at Hitachi Capital (UK) Plc, Contract Hire & Leasing Business

I have never had a coaching session before, and was a little unsure of what to expect, but Meryl quickly put me at ease. The benefits of the coaching programme was being able to see the wood from the trees, very simple techniques have made it easy to plan my working day, and not get bogged down. Meryl style and techniques are very subtle but effective – and helped me to think about my issues from another perspective enabling me to gain insight into the areas I need to prioritise. The immediate benefits for my business are I am much more production, less stressed and have a new found confidence that enables me to say no”

Business Owner Waste Management Company, Kent

“I have worked with consultants before, and spent a lot of money in the process, but the work and recommendations that MGL undertook really caught my attention and made me appreciate what is really going on in my business, and what I need to do about it. Meryl is extremely professional with an easy an approachable manner, which made the process not just beneficial, but enjoyable”.

Alex Moss, CEO, Duo Plc, Aggregate Business

Meryl has a very engaging and natural manner and is brilliant at asking the right questions to enable me to really explore the areas that we were discussing. Meryl got to know and understand me quickly and enables us to discuss some difficult topics in depth.

I always leave sessions with Meryl feeling like I’ve just answered all of the big questions and concerns in my head entirely for myself. My confidence grew massively through our time working together.

Julia Clarke,Principal Consultant, Newton

“We liked very much the approach that MGL took in undertaking a study for us, and were very happy with the outcome. By taking each question that we wanted answers to separately, and responding to them individually Meryl ensured that the assignment tied back to address the original requirement. The study brought a lot of new and independent thinking to our project which enabled us to consider the potential of a new market, and was very much appreciated by myself and my stakeholders”.

Group Executive, Global Financial Services Business

“From start to finish Meryl was a pleasure to work alongside. She is warm, supportive, responsive and very creative. We had clear communication throughout and felt confident that the day would go well – and it did! With a combination of hearing and deaf people (mostly British Sign Language users) in our session, Meryl adapted to working with a mixed group, through interpreters with great ease. We would highly recommend Meryl – who we are confident will enhance any of your team events/meetings.”

Amanda, Lesley and Sue, Joint Chief Executives at the Royal Association for Deaf people

“Meryl’s experience of running sales teams, coupled with her expertise in coaching and people development really came to the fore as she led the management group in setting the cute prose and objectives of the course and the activities within. She encouraged a wider perspective of the future of our business in terms of what we wanted to achieve with our sales people, and on the back of that we are in the process of developing a robust PDP and Review process, which we believe will be the basis of our sales DNA.”

Jon Quinn, National Account Director, National Tyres

“The process and coaching that I have received from Meryl has truly been helpful, valuable and very worthwhile as Meryl was able to adapt to my needs and wants, and I have felt supported and listened to throughout. I couldn’t recommend coaching, but especially Meryl, enough!

Thank you!”

Sophia Page, Wellbeing People

“Cherry childcare is a family owned childcare business operating 11 children’s day nurseries. We believe in investing in training to help develop and motivate our people. The majority of our training has been internal so we approached Meryl as we were looking at developing our managers coaching skills, which needed an independent approach. This has been very well received.”

Nigel Rolfe, Managing Director Cherry Nurseries

Tel: (+44) 7500 111 388
email: meryl@merylgilbert.co.uk