Welcome to Life Design Hub
Welcome to this learning centre which has a goal of empowering people to live, work, and lead in alignment with who they truly are.
This is the new home for Gill McLaren’s passion to enable her proven methodology and tools for intentional life design accessible to everyone, not just a luxury for a few.
Over time, Gill plans to share tools, insights and support programs to help you uncover your Unique Life Fingerprint™, create a clear and energising plan, and start living an integrated life that feels in true alignment with who you are.
“This is the home of my mission — to make intentional, integrated life design accessible to everyone, not just a luxury for the few.”
— Gill McLaren
What is Life Design?
Life Design is the intentional act of shaping your life — based on who you truly are.
It’s grounded in Gill’s 6-step Think.Plan.Live.® methodology to design an authentic life plan that is aligned with who you are by:
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Defining your Who, With, What, Why, Where and When
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Joining the dots to integrate your Strengths, Values and Energy sources
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Integrating all of this with your Goals and Aspirations.
Whether you are navigating a major life transition, seeking more meaning in your work and career, or simply ready to stop living on autopilot, this approach is for everyone at any life stage.
No one else has your unique Life Fingerprint. That’s your greatest advantage.
What You’ll Find Here
This Life Design Hub is being developed to support individuals, teams, and organisations.
Our goal is to create simple programs and tools to guide people on a journey of self-insight, personalised planning and action to build and live their best integrated life.
Currently, you can access Gill’s Think.Plan.Live.® Audiobook and Workbook, with its many tools and resources for designing your next chapter.
You can also hire Gill as a coach to build a tailored program for your personal and professional growth.
You can book Gill to deliver group offerings, including group coaching, speaking and facilitation.
Gill is always happy to connect and explore how she can inspire and help you and your people.
“Gill’s sessions are interactive, inspiring, and practical – often accompanied by the Think.Plan.Live.® toolkit and opportunities to continue the work beyond the event.”
Take a guided Life Design journey with 1:1 coaching
Incorporating the Think.Plan.Live. tools with 1:1 coaching, each program is tailored to the individual personal goals of each person.
Typical client goals revolve around navigating a career transition, around building a life and career more in tune and authentic to who they are and around midlife re-focus on building a meaningful next chapter of their life.
Each program starts with a free exploratory call to mutually assess if Life Design is what you need, and how the program could be designed to achieve your goals.
Book Gill McLaren
to Speak and
Facilitate
Inspire your people to live, work, and lead with authenticity, energy, and purpose.
Gill is an inspiring speaker who brings life design expertise, insight and lived experience to every room she enters. With warmth, clarity, and just the right amount of challenge, Gill helps audiences reconnect with what matters.
Whether you have a leadership retreat, women’s event, or team development session, Gill tailors everything to your audience — blending personal story with powerful tools, and leaving participants with inspiration and practical takeaways.
Leadership Development for Organisations
Want to support your people to grow, energise, and lead more authentically?
Gill offers flexible programs tailored for any workplace. These experiences help individuals and teams reconnect with what matters, reduce burnout, and improve performance through clarity and alignment.
Each program is highly tailored to the context and goals of the team and organisation. Examples include inspirational kick-off sessions, workshops leveraging the Think.Plan.Live toolkit and other self-reflective and 360 tools, and annual career and life integration planning.
Is this as good as it gets? Are you really living the life you want from a career and family perspective?
Buy the Book
If you are starting to think about your Life design, then this is an easy starting point.
Think. Plan. Live. is a workbook that will stimulate your thinking so you can confidently design a life as unique to you as your fingerprint.
It comes complete with tried and tested strategic frameworks, tools and practical advice and is now also available as an Audiobook and PDF Workbook.
Spotlight: Second 50 Life Design Program
What if the second half of life — or even just the next chapter — could feel more meaningful, more aligned, and more you?
In partnership with Second 50, Gill co-created a transformative 8-week Life Design experience for women in midlife and beyond.
This virtual program helps women reconnect with their values, strengths, and energy, and create a practical 12-month integrated life plan aligned with the life they want now — not the one they’ve outgrown.
It’s powerful, flexible, and grounded in connection and clarity.
Available exclusively through Second 50.
See what Second 50 women are saying about Gill and Second 50 Life Design
Gill has a gift for getting to the essence of people, backed up by a thought-provoking methodology that simply makes self-awareness fun!
Gill walked me through the values investigation and helped me identify what truly matters to me beyond surface-level goals and showed me how to make decisions aligned with my core beliefs.
Gill expertly facilitated a journey for me to clarify my strengths and values. From here, I prioritised what, where and with whom I would spend my time and energy on, with the goal of living my best integrated life. It was a thoroughly worthwhile process.
With her passion for helping people live their best lives, I thoroughly recommend working with Gill and her Life Design process.
Gill’s guidance is both expert and deeply heartfelt. You can tell she’s speaking from lived experience, which makes her insights resonate on a whole other level.
Gill is an amazing coach and facilitator and brings her lived experience to life in the program. If you are looking for an approach to help you live your life (both work and play) with purpose and in alignment with your values then I couldn’t recommend Life Design enough.
