Jill "GiGi" Austin
@jillgigiaustin
Jill "GiGi" Austin
Bio
What If This Moment Is an Invitation to Something More?
Perhaps a familiar role is changing. Something that once felt right no longer quite fits. Or perhaps life is good, and you're simply curious about what else might be possible—more meaning, more joy, more connection, or something entirely different.
Whatever brings you here, you don't need to have all the answers.
I'm Jill “GiGi” Austin, MBA, founder of GrowthFlows and creator of Leadership Wizardry™.
After more than 30 years in executive leadership, along with decades of exploring spiritual, energetic, and embodied approaches to personal growth, I've discovered that some of life's most meaningful possibilities begin when we become curious about who we are and what matters to us.
My role isn't to tell you who to become. It's to help you recognize the wisdom, gifts, and possibilities already within you.
You may not know exactly what comes next. But something within you knows it's time to explore.
Discover the Wisdom Within
Leadership Wizardry™ invites you to become more aware of how you lead yourself through life.
Through the twelve archetypes of the Leadership Wizardry Oracle Deck, we explore different ways of recognizing your gifts, meeting challenges, and discovering what may be ready to emerge.
We pay attention to more than thoughts alone. Our emotions, inner dialogue, intuition, and the wisdom of our bodies all have something to contribute.
We filter with the heart, attune with the body, and discern with the mind.
And sometimes, the most meaningful discoveries begin with a simple question, a moment of recognition, or a willingness to see something differently.
Experience a Leadership Wizardry™ Transformation Session
What would you like to be different in your life? What would you like more of?
A Leadership Wizardry Transformation Session is a 60-minute experience designed to help you explore a question, challenge, opportunity, or possibility that matters to you.
We begin by creating a welcoming, sacred space where you can settle in, breathe, and connect with what is present for you. Depending on what emerges, our time may include spiritual connection, a moment of song, or simply a quiet invitation to listen inwardly.
You'll be invited to intuitively select three cards from the Leadership Wizardry Oracle Deck.
Through their archetypes, insights, and questions, we'll explore what resonates with your experience, what new possibilities may be emerging, and what wisdom is ready to be recognized.
You don't need any previous experience with oracle cards. Simply bring a question, a curiosity, or something you'd like to explore.
Together, we may draw on embodied awareness, energetic sensitivity, intuition, and practical brainstorming. By the end of our time, we'll identify one or two meaningful ways to carry your discoveries forward. I may also suggest a Leadership Wizardry video that speaks to your experience.
Transformation Sessions are offered virtually, with participants welcome from wherever they are in the world.
“The clarity I’ve received from Gigi with our session has had profound effects on my life. I am deeply grateful for the sacred space Gigi held for me to figure things out.”
— Shelley Leggett
If you're curious about experiencing a session, I'd love to hear from you.
Explore Leadership Wizardry on YouTube
A Little Curiosity Can Open a Whole New World
What happens when we meet uncertainty with curiosity?
In Day 1 of my 72 Days of Leadership Wizardry series, we begin with the Novice—the adventurer, the beginner, the one willing to try something new.
And we explore a question you can take into your own life:
Where could I apply curiosity instead of uncertainty?
Featured Video: Day 1 — The Novice Challenge
Across 72 videos, I explore the archetypes, challenges, superpowers, and insights of the Leadership Wizardry Oracle Deck.
You don't have to begin at the beginning. Follow an archetype, a question, or an image that catches your attention.
Start wherever you feel drawn. See what unfolds.
Explore More with GiGi on The Wellness Universe
There are many ways to begin exploring greater awareness, balance, and self-mastery.
Through my recorded workshops on The Wellness Universe, we explore practical tools for emotional self-mastery, happiness, daily balance, and recognizing the energetic signals that influence our lives.
These experiences are designed to help you bring greater awareness and intention into everyday moments.
Explore GiGi's recorded workshops
I've also shared reflections on conscious leadership and Lifeforce Self-Mastery through The Wellness Universe.
Read From Burnout to Conscious Leadership
Read Lifeforce Self-Mastery: From Exhausted to Energized
And you're welcome to join me for Wellness Quarters, a live, 15-minute opportunity to pause, reconnect, and explore a little more well-being together.
The Oracle Within: A Greek Pilgrimage
Photograph: Jordi Vich Navarro / Unsplash
You know something is changing. You just don't know what comes next.
What if stepping away from the familiar could help you discover what matters most—and what you want to carry forward?
The Oracle Within is a pilgrimage to Greece for women who feel themselves standing at a threshold and are ready to explore the questions:
Who am I now? Who am I becoming?
Co-created with Melissa Crim, whose background in therapeutic work and astrology complements my approach to leadership, spiritual exploration, and ceremony, this experience brings together sacred places, nature, reflection, connection, and opportunities to listen more deeply to yourself.
Together, we'll create space to explore what may be ready to be released, remembered, or renewed.
Bring your curiosity and a little sense of adventure.
Speaking, Workshops & Group Experiences
What happens when we bring curiosity, courage, and a little wizardry into the room?
Something wonderful can happen when people come together to explore new possibilities.
Through speaking engagements, workshops, retreats, and group experiences, I invite participants to explore how they lead themselves through life—and how greater awareness can change the way they meet challenges, connect with others, and discover what matters.
My approach blends practical leadership wisdom with intuition, embodied awareness, spiritual insight, and opportunities for personal reflection.
These aren't simply presentations about transformation. They're invitations to participate, experiment, and discover something meaningful for yourself.
And yes, there may even be a song!
If you're looking for a speaker, workshop facilitator, or guide for a meaningful group experience, I'd love to explore what's possible together.
Meet GiGi: Where Leadership Meets Wisdom
My journey has taken me from corporate boardrooms to sacred spaces—and I've discovered that each has something important to teach us about leadership.
For more than 30 years, I worked in executive leadership, including roles at Nortel Networks and Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where I served as Chief Marketing Officer and Assistant Vice Chancellor for Strategic Marketing.
I earned my MBA from Vanderbilt University and graduated with honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Alongside my professional career, I've pursued a lifelong exploration of personal growth, spiritual wisdom, and energetic practices.
My training includes advanced shamanic practitioner studies through the Power Path School of Shamanism, certification as a VortexHealing® practitioner with extensive continuing advanced study, and exploration of Divine Feminine ceremony, Feng Shui, mindfulness, and other approaches to personal transformation.
Today, I bring these dimensions together through Leadership Wizardry™, creating space for people to recognize their own wisdom, reconnect with their gifts, and discover what matters most to them.
After a lifetime of exploring leadership from so many different perspectives, one thing continues to inspire me: witnessing the moment someone recognizes a possibility within themselves that they hadn't quite seen before.
— GiGi
A Personal Reflection: The Essence Remains
What happens when a role that has helped define us changes—or comes to an end?
In this short reflection from my chapter, The Gift of Identity Loss, I share a discovery from my own journey: our roles may change, but the gifts, values, and essence we express through them remain available to us.
Perhaps the question isn't only, “Who am I now?” but also:
“What is this transition opening up for me?”
Featured Video: The Essence Remains
Author & Thought Leader
Writing is another way I explore leadership, self-mastery, identity, and the possibilities that emerge through change.
I am the lead author of Transformative Leadership: Self-Mastery for the New Voice of Business Success, a collaborative book bringing together 24 contributing authors. In addition to supporting those contributors, I wrote the introduction, finale, acknowledgments, and my chapter, “The Self-Empowered Leader.”
I've also contributed chapters to three other books:
The Wellness Universe Guide to Complete Self-Care: 25 Tools for Transformation
My chapter, “Lifeforce Self-Mastery,” explores ways to move from exhaustion toward a more energized and intentional life.
Dreaming with Bees: Sacred Medicine from Beyond the Veil of Grief
My contribution, “Authentic Self-Motivation for Business Leaders,” explores the relationship between authentic motivation and leadership.
The Wellness Universe Guide to Complete Self-Care: 25 Tools for Navigating Loss, Grief & Transition
In “The Gift of Identity Loss,” I explore what happens when a familiar role no longer defines us—and how that experience can become an invitation to rediscover our essence.
Across these writings, a common thread continues to emerge: we have opportunities to lead ourselves with greater awareness, recognize the gifts that are uniquely ours, and navigate life's changes with intention.
What Participants Are Saying
“This is how you connect your magic with your business and your leadership style.”
— Leah Skurdal
“It was leadership wizardry indeed.”
— Preeti Dehin
“It's so lively and her talking, singing and topic is just inspiring.”
— Sherry Wuu
Your Next Chapter Begins With Curiosity
You may be standing at a threshold, ready to release something familiar, reclaim a part of yourself, or explore a possibility you haven't yet imagined.
You don't need to have everything figured out before you begin.
You have but to turn toward what is calling for your attention.
And perhaps that's where the wizardry begins.
With warmth and curiosity,
GiGi