Sharon K., MCC

As an Executive Coach and Facilitator, Sharon supports both experienced and emerging leaders and their teams. She helps them find clarity and chart their paths toward their envisioned future. Sharon empowers her clients to maximize their strengths, draw from their extensive experience, and break through obstacles to achieve their full potential.

MY PASSION TO COACH

  • I handle executive coaching and facilitation engagements, and work with clients across the management spectrum in areas including corporate and not for profit leadership, technology, education, finance, real estate, insurance and faith-based organizations.

  • In working with my clients, I draw from my own executive experience and from coaching and assessing thousands of leaders. My coaching is practical and targeted and focused on helping my clients connect to their strengths, set specific objectives and create and execute a plan for success. My strength is in developing trusting relationships with clients that provide a safe space for developing new awareness and insight for personal and professional growth. I believe that success begins inside, and I support my clients to appreciate themselves, enabling their strengths to emanate in work and life. As executive coach I have watched my clients gain insights from the coaching process that have been transformational.

MY CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

  • Prior to establishing my consulting practice, I spent 10 years as a CHRO with a national real estate firm and as COO for a hotel real estate company and as an executive search consultant.

MY PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Experience working with private sector clients: 

Clients include leaders from such organizations as: Turner Construction, The Wrigley Company, Jones Lang LaSalle, CBRE, Adobe, Hewlett Packard, Cushman & Wakefield, Navigant, and BMO. 

  • Prior to her work as an Executive Coach, Sharon spent ten years as a Senior Vice President of Administration and Director of Human Resources and then served as Chief Operating Officer for an international service firm.
  • She currently manages Leadership & Professional Development activities for a national trade association, and over the past four years has developed an annual Leadership Forum; a series of interactive workshops, focused on developing and inspiring, confident leaders.
  • Sharon facilitates career and organization development seminars, strategy sessions and teambuilding and consensus building workshops.  She is a frequent panelist and speaker on subjects of Leadership & Career Development and her research studies and articles have appeared in industry and business publications.

Experience working with Federal clients:

  • Department of Homeland Security U.S., Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) -Sharon has coached leaders with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) including supporting a range of leaders promoted into positions of increased responsibility. 
  • The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Sharon has coached on leadership and career development issues.

MY CREDENTIALS

  • Georgetown University, Institute for Transformational Leadership – Leadership Coaching, Executive Facilitation 
  • New York University, M.A. Communications
  • Bar Ilan University, B.A.
  • Master Certified Coach (MCC) – International Coach Federation (ICF)
  • Leadership Circle Profile, Emotional Intelligence EQ-i 2.0 & EQ360
  • Hogan Assessment, Search Inside Yourself, DiSC Training
  • TOP Facilitation & Strategic Planning & Consensus Building
  • Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team Facilitator