As the Australian Country Director of Potential -a world-leading provider of organisational development and leadership solutions based on mind training . Gillian is the co-author of One Second Ahead – Enhance Your Performance at Work With Mindfulness and was strategic advisor and researcher for the best-selling book The Mind of the Leader – How to Lead Yourself, Your People and Your Organisation for Extraordinary Results published by Harvard Business Review Press. With a background as a leader and change agent in the sales and operations functions of large corporations and a diagnosis of breast Cancer in 2010 propelled Gillian into exploring a new way of working and a more sustainable way of being. Gillian’s purpose is to support people who care for people, and equip organisations and their leaders with the mind skills to remain focused, kind and effective to achieve important amidst the overwhelm of modern work/life.