About Me

My Experience

Gilly Brunton
The Wellness Expert

I’m Gilly, a Registered Nutritionist (RNutr), corporate wellness expert, and Agile-certified project manager with over 32 years of experience helping individuals and businesses thrive.

From personalised nutrition coaching to corporate wellness programmes and quality assurance, I deliver practical, no-nonsense solutions that work.

Whether you need evidence-based nutrition advice, project oversight, or compliance assurance, I bring expertise and clarity to every challenge. I’ve helped hundreds of clients, trained teams across industries, and even written a best-selling book, Becoming a Better You.

If you’re ready for expert-led guidance that delivers real results, let’s make it happen!

Education

Oxford Brookes University | Master of Science, Applied Human Nutrition

September 2017 - August 2018

University of Surrey | Post Graduate Certificate of Education, Physical Education & Science

September 2001 - August 2002

University of Bedford | Bachelor of Science (BSc), SportsScience/Leisure Management

September 1994 - July 1997

Agile Business Consortium | Agile Project Management, Foundation & Practitioner

April 2023 - July 2023

Mentoring
Specialist

Published
Author

Counselling
& Coaching

Project
Manager

Registered
Nutritionist

Business
Owner

My Experience

Innovate UK

Monitoring Officer / Monitoring Service Provider

July 2023 - Present

Runs a successful nutrition business. Provides therapy to 300+ clients. Designs online programmes and CRM systems. Published author. Leads corporate wellness workshops. Consults for nutrition brands. Trains teams at Selfridges and Harrods. Lectures at De Montfort University. Mentors nutrition graduates. Specialises in digital health solutions.

Monitoring technical and financial performance against the agreed project scope, work packages, milestones and deliverables.
Conducting structured quarterly project reviews and providing independent assessment and reporting to IUK.
Reviewing project expenditure, forecasts, claims and financial controls and identifying material variances or emerging issues.
Monitoring project risk, governance, resourcing, commercialisation and exploitation activity.
Challenging and supporting project teams where delivery deviates from the agreed plan.
Reviewing proposed project changes and assessing their potential impact on scope, time, cost and outcomes.
Supporting effective project management while maintaining appropriate independence and assurance.
Working across multidisciplinary innovation portfolios, with particular expertise in health & care, digital health, MedTech, nutrition, AI-enabled healthcare and life sciences.

Key responsibilities include:

GB Wellness Expert Limited Director

Agile Project Manager | Health & Life Sciences Consultant

April 2018 - Present

Formerly Better Nutrition by Gilly Ltd – company renamed in 2023 to reflect the evolution and expansion of its professional services. GB Wellness Expert Limited provides specialist project management, monitoring, quality assurance and consultancy services, with particular expertise across health, life sciences and innovation.

My current work focuses primarily on Agile project management, project monitoring and quality assurance, drawing upon extensive experience in health, science, education, behaviour change and commercial programme delivery.

• Agile project and programme management
• Project monitoring and quality assurance
• Risk, issue and change management
• Governance and stakeholder management
• Technical and financial project oversight
• Scope, work packages, milestones and deliverables
• R&D and grant-funded innovation
• Commercialisation and exploitation
• Health & life sciences consultancy
• Report writing, review and assurance

Areas of expertise include:

The business originally focused on nutrition and behaviour change consultancy under the Better Nutrition by Gilly identity. Its renaming in 2023 reflects the transition into broader project management, monitoring and professional consultancy services.

Various Education & Sport Organisations

Education & Leadership | UK & UAE

September 2002 - March 2018

Fifteen years in senior education, sport and leadership roles across the UK and UAE, progressing from Athletics Director and Head of Physical Education to Partnership Development Manager, with responsibility for teams, curriculum development, professional training and large-scale physical activity and school sport programmes.

Highlights included leading a team of 14 qualified teachers and working across 82 London schools, delivering national leadership and professional development training, contributing advisory expertise within government education and sport settings, and establishing Physical Education and Athletics provision within an international school in Dubai.

This period also included serving as a Team Leader in Press Operations at the London 2012 Olympic Games, working with athletes and international media within the Mixed Zone at Horse Guards Parade.

Leicester City FC Academy & Southampton FC Academy

Academy Operations & Youth Development

August 1999 - August 2001

Worked within professional football during a major period of change in English youth development, holding Academy Administrator roles at Leicester City FC and Southampton FC as clubs implemented and embedded the new Academy structure introduced through The FA's Charter for Quality.

The new framework represented a significant shift in the development of young professional players, establishing formal Academies and Centres of Excellence with defined standards covering player registration and development, coaching, education, welfare, safeguarding, medical and physiological monitoring, staffing, facilities and administration. Its wider objective was to create a structured pathway through which professional clubs could identify, nurture and develop talented young players over the longer term.

As Academy Administrator, my remit included supporting the implementation and ongoing administration of these requirements, maintaining player records and registrations, coordinating Academy processes and communications, and working across coaching, education, welfare and operational functions to ensure the Academy structure met the required professional-football standards.

This was an early introduction to regulated programme delivery, governance, compliance, stakeholder coordination, quality standards and structured reporting – skills that subsequently became central to my career in project and programme management and, more recently, project monitoring and assurance.