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Leadership Coach | Organization Development Consultant | Culture Strategist

Sheila is a coach and OD consultant who helps leaders grow in ways that positively impact both team performance and organizational outcomes. She’s a dot-connector and meaning-maker who helps leaders and teams make sense of the complex. Sheila works at the intersection of talent development, culture, and organizational alignment—where deep transformation happens. She brings a systems lens and a coaching mindset to help individuals grow, teams thrive, and organizations adapt and perform.

Sheila is a trusted advisor and coach who supports the mindsets, skillsets, and alignment needed to enable meaningful relationships, work experiences, and organizational impact. She bridges the big picture and the day-to-day details—translating strategy into observable behaviors, effective systems, and a healthy culture across the employee lifecycle.

She creates spaces where leaders can listen more deeply, speak more courageously, and act with greater clarity and purpose. Whether it’s helping someone navigate transition, develop their leadership identity, or engage more effectively with others, she brings curiosity, challenge, and support. Her clients describe her as calm, insightful, and someone who shortens the path between awareness and meaningful behavior change.

How Sheila does this work:

• One-on-one and team coaching
• Organizational assessments and diagnostics
• Culture and strategy alignment, focused on building clarity, alignment, belonging, and behavior change
• Learning design grounded in experiential and developmental principles
• Leadership and team retreats
• Talent strategy and workforce development consulting

Education and Credentials:

Sheila has a Master’s in Human Resources and Change Leadership, with an emphasis on Organization Development and Human Resource Development and draws on a robust foundation of coach training, assessment certifications, and cross-industry experience to support the human side of change.

She’s certified in a range of coaching frameworks and tools, including The Leadership Circle Profile and BRITE, Hogan, EQ-i 2.0, Immunity to Change, Conversational Intelligence®, the Judgment Index, and more. Sheila has completed advanced coaching coursework with organizations such as Coaches Rising, Coaching.com (formerly WBECS), Conner Academy, and the NeuroLeadership Institute, and is actively pursuing credentialing through the International Coach Federation (ICF).

Sheila is a lifelong learner, dedicated to growing leadership capacity, strengthening teams, and building healthier, more purposeful workplaces. Her professional memberships include the International Coach Federation, Center for Coaching in Organizations (including annual conference planning), Minnesota Organizational Development Network, Twin Cities OD Network, Center for Purposeful Leadership, and the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council.

Ultimately, Sheila believes that when we align people, purpose, and possibility—real transformation is not only possible, but sustainable.