About Merydith Willoughby

Merydith Willoughby is an award winning international organization development consultant and author with over two decades in this industry.  She is a prolific writer, published globally and regular commentator in the media.   Merydith’s excellence has been acknowledged in many ways, most recently Marion Citizen of the Year nominee – Marion Australia Day Awards and Australian of the Year nominee. She is listed in Who’s Who SA, was awarded a Corporate Business Champion Award by Drug Arm and was on the Inner Southern Business Enterprise Centre as a board member when they were voted best enterprize centre in Australia.  While project director at the SA Business Vision 2010 Think Tank she helped get her state on the map at the prestigious annual national Australian Chamber & Commerce awards for the second time in the awards’ 10 year history.  Services delivered to New York & Adelaide. 

Merydith went to university as a mature age student to study Labour Studies at the University of Adelaide.  Since that time, she has gained a cross-institutional postgraduatequalification in education and politics from three major Universities.  Other studies have included business development, coaching, training, HRM, neuroscience and cognitive behaviour therapy.  One result of this passion for learning in such a diversity of areas is that Merydith is able to look at the world and those in it in many different ways.  This ability contributes much to her success.

When a corporate contract ceased in 2003, Merydith founded IB Coaching. IB has worked literally from boardrooms to the grass roots level of society. The approach they use is based on keeping it simple, to focus on building competencies, to inform, to involve and to engage all stakeholders.  They then measure, monitor, mentor and manage key result areas.  IB uses a clear, systematic and practical approach with all clients and there is no guessing going on.  

A highlight of Merydith’s career was when she attended President Obama’s inauguration and launched Sex in the Boardroom (leadership book) in Washington DC and New York.  She was commentator for a radio program and relayed what was happening ‘on the ground’ at the inauguration to an Australian audience. Later that same year The Washington Post published an article of Merydith’s ‘Five Leadership How-Tos for Recession Survival’. She is also the author of If it’s to be: It’s up to meand Back from Hell.

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Media

The Washington Post
The Leadership Playlist: Five Leadership How-Tos for Recession

Council Manager
The Magazine for Senior Leaders in Local Government: Why managers must take a break

HRM Magazine - Singapore
Workplace conflict strategies

The Advertiser - Adelaide
Executive Call: Why employees think managers are losers

Merydith has written articles for
The Advertiser since 2004

Along The Grapevine
Merydith has written articles for Along The Grapevine (community newspaper) since 2004

The above is a snippet of what Merydith has written. Services delivered to New York & Adelaide.