SHANNON COHEN HAS THE PASSION AND EXPERTISE TO HELP LEADERS THRIVE AT THE INTERSECTION OF JOY AND PURPOSE.

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Shannon Cohen lifts individuals and entire companies toward forward, positive momentum in their personal and work lives.

The knowledge Shannon Cohen speaks and writes from stems from a background in emotional intelligence research with decades of lived experience as a decorated leader, entrepreneur, and consultant. She has combined both acumen and wisdom gleaned from her own leadership journey to cultivate an authentic empathy towards fellow difference makers. Each speaking engagement, blog post, or inspirational piece unites the idea that to be better leaders, we need to balance being logically honest and healthfully kind towards ourselves.

Shannon helps leaders openly unpack and address the tough challenges they face behind their smiles, titles and roles and helps organizations tackle the issues they wrestle with behind closed doors. Shannon creates safe spaces for leaders and organizations to unveil their truth and walks alongside leaders to strategize and pace solutions that yield results.

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Technical competence and acumen are not enough. The most effective visionaries, difference makers, and managers are adept in the art of people care and people management.  That adeptness stems from an awareness and connection to one’s self as a leader. Shannon has taken curriculum she designed and taught as an adjunct professor for undergraduate and graduate courses into boardrooms and organizations nationwide.

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Topics include:

  1. Leadership that Makes A Difference
  2. Is it Arson or is it Fire: Navigating Sabotage in the Workplace
  3. Soulful Leadership
  4. Fostering Fit and Belonging on your team
  5. Employee Engagement and Team Building
  6. Coalition Building
  7. Leadership in the Valley— Navigating Setbacks and Failure
  8. The Business Case for Addressing Burnout and Overextension Among Your Team

There is a business case for addressing burnout. Tough Skin, Soft Heart is a movement specializing in empowering today’s overextended leader to navigate the emotional, mental, and, physical strain that often accompanies a life committed to being a difference-maker. Shannon is an expert in the connection between emotional intelligence and leadership.

Rockstar women—Shannon loves what she calls ‘rockstar’ women. A rockstar leader is a female difference maker who is the rock in her home, marketplace, and community. She gives relentlessly of herself to the causes she believes in, the people she loves, and the work she has committed herself too. 

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She is the 1st call for help because her judgment is sound and she is known to come through no matter what. She sacrifices, leads, and serves to her own hurt.  She seems invincible, to the world around her and the world she impacts, she is invincible. But this invincibility is not without a cost. Shannon knows that the rockstar woman is often the most emotionally neglected. She has no time to become unglued because she is the glue to so much and so many.

Shannon loves pouring into rockstar women and creating safe places for rockstar women to lay down the burden of perfection, invincibility, and fearlessness to take inventory and to listen to the voice of their soul. Her favorite question to ask rockstar women—how are you… for real?

Shannon is the co-founder of Sisters Who Lead, a movement birthed out a research study Shannon facilitated with Patricia Sosa VerDuin entitled, ‘Invisible Walls, Ceilings, and Floors: Championing the Voices and Inclusion of Female Leaders of Color in West Michigan.’

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 Shannon is committed to changing the narrative that there are no qualified women of color to fill vacancies in public, nonprofit, and private sector leadership spaces. We are committed to championing the voices and inclusion of female leaders of color in the workforce.

Data is replete with numeric accounting of racial and gender gaps and disparities. Data exists underscoring the business case for diversity in a creative class and knowledge-driven economy. Shannon Cohen, Inc. partners with community and organizational partners committed to rethinking talent attraction, retention, promotion, and employee engagement. Shannon has been a catalyst for the reform of systems, processes, networks, informal and formal policies and workplace culture in the area of equity and inclusion.