Bill Coy

Poet in Residence

Bill’s professional journey has allowed him to work in the most beautiful places on the planet. Honolulu Hawaii, the Vatican, Yosemite Valley, Marin County, Skywalker Ranch, and Fargo North Dakota.

Most recently Bill was the designer and director of the Omidyar Fellows, a cross sectoral leadership development program in Honolulu Hawaii. Previously he was a partner at La Piana Consulting heading the leadership practice. His professional background includes head of training and development at Industrial Light & Magic, George Lucas’s visual effects firm and Director of HR at Yosemite National Institutes.  He holds graduate degrees in systematic theology and clinical counseling.  He is a licensed marriage and family therapist.

His work has allowed him to act as a teacher, facilitator, therapist, writer, aggregator of the wisdom of others, executive coach, and consultant. He has been an executive coach at Stanford Medical Leadership Academy since its creation. He treasures his role as a spouse, father, and grandfather.

Bill is also the poet in residence for the Wellbeing Project, a global organization that promotes the inner wellbeing for changemakers.

Towards the end of his career right now, not ready to retire, he is looking forward to discovering what is next and how to write the chapter in this stage of life.  He continues to be confused about how a 35-year-old man like himself can have 69 birthdays.