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The business landscape is rapidly evolving. Executive leaders today are navigating extraordinary challenges by way of overwhelm, hiring and retention issues, staying agile and energetic in a constantly changing environment, employee disengagement, and so much more.

As a leader, you must face these challenges head-on to truly thrive.

Tomorrow’s Impactful Leadership Starts Today

At Erickson Leadership by Design, our mission is to help you awaken an extraordinary path to leadership that goes beyond high achievement to high growth. We empower your journey to get clear, excel, and make significant progress in your goals and aspirations as you establish a healthy work-life rhythm – not years in the future – but soon!

We believe every leader, every team, and every organization is unique. That’s why we work with you closely to determine a custom development plan to reach and surpass your goals in the most efficient way.

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"I’m grateful for Shana's calm approach and her ability to both challenge and reassure me even today. "

In working with Shana as a coach, her ability to listen and draw out challenges and opportunities in leadership has proven valuable to me. As a leader, it can be rare to have a safe space to share second-guessing thoughts, lay out the self-doubts or past experiences that are playing into current challenges.

Shana has been a sounding board for me, asking thought-provoking questions to help me identify what defines me as a leader, the ways I want to bring my whole self to my role. I’d highly recommend considering Shana as a coach either for yourself or leaders in your organization.

Jude Tomei
Business Support & Service Desk – Intelligent Enterprise Business Solutions

"I can honestly say I would not be the leader I am today without her guidance. "

I began my coaching with Shana during a very pivotal time in my professional career.  I can honestly say I would not be the leader I am today without her guidance.  She is an excellent listener, superb communicator and constantly challenged me to grown and push myself outside of my comfort zone.

The biggest impact my professional coaching with Shana had on me was changing my mindset to understand and acknowledge that every individual has different motivations and drivers.  You can’t expect or change how someone shows up or is motivated, but you can adapt your leadership style individually to motivate and promote bringing out the best in someone. I will always appreciate and reflect on my time spent with Shana in her program and would recommend Shana to anyone.

Cory Allen
Senior Vice President, Commercial Banking

"Shana's professionalism combined with her genuine personality has made her an excellent coach."

She is a great listener, calming demeanor, and client-first approach brings her top of mind when I’m asked about coaches in the area.

As a result of Shana’s coaching, I improved conflict resolution, deepened listening skills, and honed my goal planning to the meaningful areas of my career.

Kevin Conklin
Commercial Banking Market Manager

"Shana Erickson is one of those fantastic coaches"

When I think about having an executive coach, I first think about the difference between mentoring and coaching. A mentor to me is someone who has excelled at their chosen field and wants to share their experience. When I think of coaching I think of John Wooden of UCLA fame. He was a basketball coach, but he didn’t just coach basketball, he made better people. The coaches throughout our lives that we always remember, built a foundation on which we could grow in all aspects of our lives.

Shana Erickson is one of those fantastic coaches. Her corporate objective was to coach leaders within our organization, the impact went far beyond that primary task. Of all the benefits that a company can provide I’m hard pressed to think of one that delivers more upside to a person’s life than the support of your firm in providing ongoing coaching. If leaders guide the culture and coaches make better leaders, it doesn’t take a great leap to understand the potential impact of having a truly gifted coach as an integral part of the equation. Shana is that coach.

Stephen Poole
Senior Vice President, Financial Services

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Executive and Leadership Coaching

Enjoy a holistic 6-month leadership coaching engagement to elevate your ability to:

  • Improve your effectiveness as a leader
  • Design the life you want to lead and the legacy you want to leave
  • Engage and inspire your team while exceeding your goals

We get beneath the surface to explore the often-hidden motivators, fears, and beliefs that prevent and/or propel lasting behavioral change.

Get access to Personality & 360 assessments including but not limited to Integrative 9 Enneagram, TruScore 360, Trust Quotient, DiSC behavioral assessment. Also, benefit from a Laser Coaching session to address a pressing challenge and discover quick and powerful insights to move forward.

Bonus: On-demand coaching is available for clients who have completed at least 6 months of coaching.

Organizational Development

Let’s build your organizational capacity to achieve greater effectiveness by creating, improving, and reinforcing the best strategies, tools, and processes.

  • Strategic planning sessions: We facilitate working sessions, leveraging our unique design thinking framework to partner with teams in actualizing a strategic plan and helping them move in on opportunities to drive growth, innovation, effectiveness, and process improvements.
  • Talent Management Consulting: We leverage nearly 25 years of hands-on experience in leadership to implement talent management strategies and programs, including career and succession planning. Gain tremendous insights from a personalized change management plan and communication strategy.
Team Development

Your team is the backbone of a profitable organization. Let’s equip your best talent to grow, thrive, and achieve powerful momentum to positively impact your bottom life. We offer:

 

  • Team Enneagrams: Leveraging the Integrative 9 Enneagram’s Team report, dive deep and help your team develop a far greater understanding of how to work well together.
  • Team Chartering: Unleash your team’s highest performance with a strategic framework and process as informed by the Enneagram results.
Leadership Development

Create greater confidence and competency in your leadership bench! We offer:

 

  • SLII Experience Powering Inspired Leaders: Blanchard’s SLII® empowers leaders to become adaptive—a requirement for our uncertain times. Backed by 40 years of research and an unmatched track record of results, The SLII Experience™ teaches your leaders how to lead situationally by giving their people the right support at the right time.
  • Management Essentials: Blanchard Management Essentials builds on the secrets of the best-selling business book, The New One Minute Manager®. Managers who receive the necessary tools and training are set up to become leaders who create engaged, productive teams and drive greater results in the organization.
Group Coaching

Enhance your leadership bench with a group coaching session. Your leaders will learn from their peers and other leaders to strengthen and accelerate their growth. Coaching is a proven method to elevate problem-solving, decision-making, and conflict-resolution skills around a variety of Leadership topics such as SLII, Enneagram, and Extraordinary Productivity.

Speaking

Engage Shana’s speaking services today! She attracts, inspires, and informs her audience with compelling keynote speeches and presentations, Expertly combining 25 years of leadership development experience with electrifying anecdotes, Shana has a rare ability to capture the room and effectuate real change from within on topics like:

 

  • Evolving a Culture, One Conversation at a Time: Learn how to transform your leadership to compete in a rapidly changing business landscape. Shana shares her insights on how to stay relevant through agile development and coaching. She walks leaders through evaluating the philosophical mindset shifts and methods used to engage an army of leaders to role model change while keeping people at the center of innovation.
  • Design the Life You Want to Lead: Experience the power a human-centered approach to innovation can generate. By leveraging the best practices of design thinking, Shana guides your leaders in applying her DESIGN framework to create the life they truly want to lead.
  • Wellness Retreats: Shana takes leaders on a journey to powerful self-discovery. She taps into the latest in neuroscience to help them shift from a reactive to a responsive place; and move from ‘should’ goals to gift goals.

Results from a three-year study of coaching clients:

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of coaching clients retained in organization

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of coaching clients have been promoted or expanded their role within their organization

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of respondents agree or strongly agree coaching has contributed to their ability to develop others

Ready to Move From High Achievement to High Growth?

This is a phenomenal experience like no other! We deliver a whole-person leadership development journey to help you thrive at your highest potential.

Partner with us today to realize your goals and aspirations, experience the work-life rhythm you’ve been yearning for, and positively impact your organization’s profitability and scalability.

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"Shana is an outstanding Executive Coach, Mentor, Career Developer, and Strategic Partner!"

In today’s ever-challenging and ever-changing business environment, the ability to have an individual by your side to guide you, ground you, and continue to develop you towards success is an invaluable asset for any leader.

Shana’s coaching approach stems from her passion and is therefore unique and innovative in that she goes beyond the surface to truly find your strengths and uncover areas of opportunity. It is through her coaching and mentorship that I have been able to dig deep and tap into the parts within myself that make me a great leader and have the confidence to successfully apply them to my work.

Vanessa Melchor-Miranda
Learning and Development Professional

"I love Shana's approach of coaching and developing the whole person."

In a relatively short amount of time, Shana has helped ground and elevate me in key leadership competencies and provided transformative recommendations to accelerate progress within my leadership journey.

I love Shana’s approach of coaching and developing the whole person and challenging her clients to align their desired aspirations, outcomes, and successes with their pursuit of purpose and fulfillment in life. I highly recommend Shana’s leadership development programs and coaching services for individuals and companies.

Elvira DeCuir
Senior Manager, DEI Engagement

"Working with Shana has been incredibly rewarding"

Her experience across industries and market cap sizes gives her a deep well of experience to draw on as a confidant and sounding board. Beyond providing a steady cadence on goal setting and reflection, Shana continues to challenge me with polite yet persistent question where needed most: what am I doing for me?! This has provided an invaluable lens into my own work/life balance. I am incredibly grateful for Shana’s professionalism and friendship.

Greg Sigrist
Chief Financial Officer

"Thanks to Shana, I became more purposeful in networking, optimized my working style, and aligned my values with my leadership approach."

I am incredibly grateful for the guidance and support provided by Shana during my career coaching sessions. Her ability to ask insightful and thought-provoking questions helped me challenge my default thinking and explore new perspectives, resulting in several significant improvements in my professional life.

Shana was an excellent accountability partner and helped me stay connected to my goals and ‘why.’ Additionally, her coaching enhanced my professional life and helped me improve relationships in my personal life. I highly recommend her without hesitation to anyone looking to take their career to the next level.

Derek LeBlanc
Driving as-a-Service growth & resiliency as an SRE leader