Meet Jillian
Jillian Gorbold founded Lead Work Well™ around a simple belief: better performance starts with understanding what’s really happening.
For more than 20 years, Jillian has worked alongside people, leaders, and organizations navigating growth, change, complexity, and the everyday realities of work. Her experience spans:
Professional services, including law firms
Senior People & Culture leadership
Municipal leadership
Organizational change
Leadership development
Adult learning
Jillian works with leaders and organizations to identify what is getting in the way of performance and build the capability to address it. She brings clarity to complex challenges and helps turn insight into decisions, action, and stronger, more sustainable performance.
What’s Informing the Work
Associate Certified Coach (ACC), International Coaching Federation
Leadership Circle Profile™ Certified Practitioner
EQ-i 2.0® & EQ 360® Certified
Prosci® Change Management Practitioner
Chartered Professional in Human Resources (CPHR)
Master of Arts in Leadership
Master’s Certificate in Public Management
20+ years at the intersection of people, leadership and performance.
The road to Lead Work Well.
Throughout Jillian’s career, she has worked with highly capable people and organizations where knowledge, expertise, or technical capability were not the issue. Performance is more complex than capability alone.
How people work together. How leaders lead. How change is experienced. How expectations are understood. How behaviours, relationships, competing demands, and individual circumstances influence performance.
That’s why Jillian founded Lead Work Well™.
She wanted to create a practice that brings together practical experience, coaching, evidence, and neuroscience to better understand what is shaping performance and what can be done differently.
Lead Work Well brings that thinking into practical work with people and organizations, helping them navigate complexity, strengthen how they lead and work, and build performance that can be sustained.
How we work together
We start with a conversation to understand what’s happening, what matters most and what you want to achieve.
Together, we clarify the goals and focus for our work.
Discover
Through coaching or advisory, we make sense of the patterns, pressures and dynamics influencing performance.
We focus on what matters most and identify a practical path forward.
Navigate
We turn understanding and insight into action.
Through practical strategies, new practices and accountability, we build toward meaningful and sustainable performance.