"I’m here to help leaders and organizations unleash their full potential, fulfill their purpose, and achieve extraordinary results.
TERESA SHAFFER
Hello, I'm Teresa Shaffer. Just like you, I'm on a journey. Every day, I work hard to be better at everything I do. I believe that lifelong learning is essential to ongoing success. In short, we all want to become the best version of ourselves.
I'm passionately interested in leadership, human potential, and helping leaders to achieve the maximum potential for themselves, their teams, and their organizations. I've supported hundreds of leaders and teams to do just this, watching them unleash their potential, make a positive difference, and obtain remarkable results. I've learned incredible things from a wide range of successful people and throughout my own professional career. I'm thrilled to share these insights with you.
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I had my first leadership position in healthcare at one of the world's leading health institutions. Starting my career at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, I laid the groundwork for my future by working with leaders and teams, giving me powerful insights into the importance of purposeful leadership.
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Later, I took on more responsibilities, moving to a top Fortune 500 company named one of the Fortune 100 Best Company's to Work for year after year. I began as a sales representative, worked my way up, and held senior leadership roles of increasing responsibility across sales leadership, organizational effectiveness, talent development, and business operations. I learned many more invaluable leadership lessons from exceptional individuals, such as showing up fully with your unique talents, understanding your strengths and gaps, building high-performing teams, creating and executing strategies that drive sustainable growth to exceed business objectives, and knowing your 'why' in your career and life.
I have a proven track record of success with over two decades of experience owning two businesses, working in healthcare and pharmaceuticals, and winning sales, leadership, and vision awards. My corporate leadership experience and founding Shaffer Executive Coaching and coaching across Multi-Generational Workplaces in the United States, Europe, and India helped me to understand the issues many leaders at all levels face when leading organizational and individual transformation.
I'll work with you to help you reach your highest potential, achieve outstanding results, and improve the world. Thank you for joining me on this journey.
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Clients First
I believe acting in clients' best interests and delivering on client-centric outcomes is best – when leaders and organizations succeed, I succeed.
Results-Oriented
I've helped companies of all sizes, from start-ups to large corporations, become more effective leaders and implement success strategies in growth, decline, turnover, and business transformation. I know what it takes to get the best out of a team and how to grow a business while achieving profitable results.
Transformational Coaching Approach
My executive and leadership coaching are built on trust. I coach with courage, emotional intelligence, positive psychology, deep listening, support, observation, and feedback. I have a profound respect for diversity, inclusiveness, and organizational culture. I meet you where you are, working to understand your goals, values, strengths, and where you want to go next. I won't tell you what you "should" do. You decide what to do because you are smart, and it's your business. I'll ask powerful questions, give perspective, and offer practical ideas so you can explore your options and determine the best answer for YOU.
Business Consultant
Whether you need to strengthen your team, increase revenue, develop and execute strategy with excellence, or develop top talent into effective leaders, I will blend my business, healthcare, sales, strategic planning, leadership experience, the psychology of human potential, and emotional intelligence expertise to guide your people and organizational transformation.
Customized Solutions
I use proven tools and methods to help you walk away with profound new insights and catapult you forward faster. I've designed courses, hired, coached, mentored, consulted, and delivered hundreds of presentations. I create tailored plans using well-tested fundamentals focused on what success means to the individual and the organization.
Education
I have a Bachelor of Science Degree, Nursing, BSN, RN from Kent State University, along with certifications and extensive coursework in:
• Executive and Professional Coaching
• Emotional Intelligence 2.0
• Lominger's Leadership Architect & Voices 360
• Total Leadership, Stew Friedman (an award-winning Wharton professor)
• The Kilman Advanced Training in Conflict Management and Team Building
• Stanford Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT)
• MBTI - Basics
• Situational Leadership
• Consultative Selling
• Extensive coursework – Leadership, Teams, Business, Strategy, Execution Excellence, Process Improvement
• Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
• HeartMath for Health Professionals
• ATD Instructional Design
What I've Written & Designed
Here's what I've written on the topic of coaching and leadership:
• Maximize the Leader in You: 10 Strategies for Greater Success and Happiness
• Life Science Leader Magazine: 7 Steps for Boosting Your Influence
• Leadership Coaching Model for the Whole Person
• Leadership & Sales workshops
• Coaching tools
• Shaffer Executive Coaching Blog – Leadership insights
Professional Memberships
Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) & The International Coaching Federation (ICF)
Fundraising for Children
Cancer, education, nutrition, leadership, teamwork, and helping release children from poverty