APPROACH

I will help you lead more consciously, so you can inspire a focused, harmonious and productive work environment.

Many leaders have ‘masks’ that they wear at work that convey what they want colleagues to see: competence, expertise, toughness. Unfortunately, their best human qualities are sometimes concealed beneath the mask.

In attempting to look competent, we lose touch with our beginner mindset and bypass innovative solutions. In projecting our expertise, we cut short the exploration of different perspectives and lose nuance and diversity of thought. In attempting to look tough, we lose our ability to connect heart to heart, and awaken deeper commitment and passion from our teams.

I believe in gently loosening the constraints of leadership, peering beneath its surface and identifying each leader’s signature style. This is who emerges when a leader brings ALL of themself to the table and offers their gifts from a place of wholeness, vulnerability, imagination, and service.

With my coaching, I focus on my clients’ deepest gifts, helping them mentally override self-doubt and impostor syndrome, and providing tactical approaches to amplify their impact. I help leaders learn to set the emotional temperature in any room, to transmit their personal values into the work culture, to use their presence and wisdom to turn clients into raving fans, teams into families, and individual contributors into stars.

SPECIALTIES

Coaching

1. Self–Aware Leaders

You know who you are and what you want, but not always how to get there. I teach self-aware leaders how to identify and leverage their deepest gifts; how to steer out of their shadow tendencies; and how to avoid being stopped by obstacles. Through this coaching, you will step out of your own way and unleash massive amounts of untapped potential so that you can have the best, most powerful impact on the world around you.

TOPICS INCLUDE: Developing Embodied Confidence, Interpersonal Skills and EQ Training, Giving and Receiving Feedback, Difficult Conversations, How to Let Go and Delegate, Goal-Setting Processes for Individuals and Teams, Setting Expectations and Managing Consequences, Various Assessments (360°, DiSC, CliftonStrengths, etc.)

2. Business Owners & Founders

You had the dream and the drive to found your own business, and the subject matter expertise to provide for your clients; but there may be some gaps in what you know how to do. As your coach, I provide emotional and tactical support, strategic thought-partnership, and leadership guidance to help you take your business to the next level so that you can increase your revenue while also liking yourself and your life.

TOPICS INCLUDE: Mission/Vision/Values, Long– and Short–Term Planning, Branding Feedback, Developing People-Management Skills, How to Empower Your Team, Professionalizing Your Business, Founder Succession Planning

3. Emerging Leaders

Being new-to-role is a window for exponential transformation. You get to decide what kind of leader you want to be. You get to shape the culture of your organization. You get to guide others in producing big results. But it can also be a scary and isolating time, rife with impostor syndrome and self-doubt. I work with emerging leaders to set and achieve goals for this transformative time, to navigate the pitfalls and, ultimately, to step into a more conscious, focused and harmonious expression of their power.

TOPICS INCLUDE: Board Management, Running ELT Meetings, Developing Your Signature Leadership Style, Shaping Company Culture, Transmitting Your Purpose and Values, Navigating Senior-Level Relationships, Dissolving Impostor Syndrome, Making Difficult Decisions, Influence and Executive Presence

Facilitation

1. Newly Forming Teams

Periods of change can be tough for people and bring up our insecurities, territorial behaviors and limiting beliefs. And yet, beginnings can also be periods of openness that are ripe for reinvention and growth. I listen deeply to the individual, cultural, and operational needs of newly forming teams and design intentional programs to help people develop trusting relationships and cultural alignment; co-create norms, strategic priorities and processes together; and accelerate forward with a shared sense of purpose.

2. Dysfunctional Teams

It is painful to work with people who don’t get along; but fortunately, it doesn’t have to stay that way. When teams learn how to place purpose before ego, they can build a high functioning, high performance culture, even with conflicting personalities. With presence and skilled facilitation, I help teams resolve their grievances; design improved work systems and processes; and fine-tune behavioral habits and interpersonal dynamics so that they can focus on the work and thrive together.

3. Purpose–Driven Teams

Your team is motivated and burning with purpose, but sometimes you are moving so fast that there’s no time to reflect, recalibrate or celebrate the wins. I will design and facilitate a team experience to enable you to reflect on what’s working and what’s not; plan your annual team goals and strategy; or just connect as people in the spirit of learning and/or celebration. These workshops provide purpose-driven teams with the necessary spaciousness and focus to work ON the business not just IN it.

“Shana can get to the essence of things very clearly and can identify the solution to a problem and bring greater clarity to what the problem really is and what needs to be done to solve it.”

— Chief Strategic Officer, Global Advertising Agency

The Process

  • Schedule a call to discuss your needs, scope and budget and get a feel for my work style and capabilities.

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  • Commit to the process, be it coaching or a facilitated event for your team.

  • If requested, begin a 360° assessment where I interview your team, peers and other stakeholders to identify strengths, areas for growth and improvement, and team needs. Digital assessments available as well.

  • Review the 360° assessment findings and set goals for the work.

  • COACHING - We schedule bi-weekly 60-minute coaching calls where we work on your goals together.

    FACILITATION - You pick a date for the event, and I develop the discussion guide, materials, and activities that will transpire at the event.

  • Review the results. Celebrate the wins. Put future action plan into place.

“Over the past year of working together Shana has helped me to navigate the upper limits of my comfort zone while developing an increased level of self confidence in interacting at the executive level at my global organization. Shana cares about who you are at your core and pushed me in ways I needed to be pushed.”

— SVP, Global Insurance Service