Our Clients

Guiding Leaders and Teams works with Fortune 100 and mid-size companies across a range of industries, including technology, health care and pharmaceutical, government/financial services, manufacturing and industry, and education.

Here is a small sample:

• Microsoft
• Canon North America Advisory Council
• Apache Corporation
• Alaskan Airlines
• Boeing Company
• Surgeon General of the United States Army
• HealthPoint
• Children’s Hospital and Medical Center
• Center for Creative Leadership
• Northwestern University
• Federal Aviation Administration
• Surgeon General of the United States Army
• US Department of Ecology

Our Complete Client List is Available Upon Request.

Testimonials

Sheila Connor has successfully coached our executives on several levels: she’s coached executives one-to-one who needed strong guidance around changing their levels of self-awareness and self-regulation and made a positive difference in their work lives and those who work with them; she’s coached executives in one to many and many to many situations within their teams, improving team levels of understanding and mutual respect; and finally, because she is such a masterful coach, from time to time she has coached our executive coaches when she has seen they could benefit from her wisdom and experience. She has also worked with our executives and senior recruiters to develop a model for an in-depth behavioral interview to assess senior executives’ cultural fitness with our firm using user-centered design methods based on emotional intelligence research.
Founder and Chief Executive, Technology Company

Guiding Leaders and Teams’ facilitation design for strategy work increased the effectiveness and engagement of our leaders. Sheila’s capabilities as a master coach are well-illustrated by her ability to share her frameworks for successful crucial meetings (one to many and many and many scenarios) coach facilitators on powerful practices to employ during those meetings.
Founder and Chief Executive, Technology Company

Coaching with Sheila It allowed me an opportunity to have someone who could reflect what others see, hold me accountable for my part of the relationship and provide tools to assist me with finding my own way. Learning to understand yourself and your interactions with others is a lifetime pursuit. Having someone there along the way, provides you the harsh but necessary reflections for honest, insightful and, in the end, critically needed change.
Director, Education Client

Sheila role-modelled masterfully in her approach to designing and executing an emotional intelligence behavioral interview framework. With her extensive experience, she could have easily created an excellent product simply relying on her expert knowledge. Instead, she approached like the master coach she is, pausing to take in a broader perspective and using user-centered design methods to create a carefully tailored response aligned with our unique context. The resulting output has been far more useful than prior internal behavioral interviews or extensive in-depth third party reference interviews.
Founder and Chief Executive, Technology Company

Sheila Connor and I partnered with my General Manager of Customer Service to design and facilitate the leadership development journey for our Customer Service Leadership Team. We were globalizing our business and it was critical that the leadership team operated as a collective to transform our global business. She helped us get clear on who we were as individual leaders, as a leadership team, and our business priorities. Sheila worked with us for the following ~2 years on our leadership and transformation journey and she continues to work in a coaching capacity.
Director, Technology Company

Sheila helped our Leadership Team transform our organization; we were redefining our mission and strategy and undergoing a significant change in our operations model. Sheila was instrumental in coaching the leadership, our leadership team, and facilitating change during a critical time.
Director, Technology Company

After working with Sheila, I was able to see how others saw my actions and behaviors as opposed to my intentions. I realized that I was often on the defensive assuming ill intent of others creating an adversarial or disrespectful relationship. Though I could understand the spoken or written words, I was not able to acknowledge the emotional or personal needs behind the communication. I often found myself believing that I needed to solve problems and not allow others to have an opportunity to problem solve.
Director, Education Client

I learned to first ascribe best intentions from others, listen to understand, ask clarifying questions and know that I do not need to be the first person to speak or to do the work on my own. I needed to allow others to assist me and to let them know early on in the process. By ascribing good intentions, I could listen first and provide room for not only my colleagues and peers to participate in the conversation and project but for my direct reports to take initiative, participate and be creative problem-solvers. I do more preplanning to identify stakeholders and include them earlier in the process of pursuing new ideas or projects. Their participation ensures that all perspectives are considered. This ensures that the results reflect their needs.
Director, Education Client

Sheila – I can’t thank you enough around how well the session was facilitated.  You were simply magnificent at observing the personalities in the room; guiding the discussion to ensure inclusion and helping us capture all the key nuggets from the key stakeholders in the room.  Net/net….we walked away with tangible results and direction.  Couldn’t have done that without you helping facilitate.
Executive, Technology Company

You woke up something in me that had been resting comfortably for some time. So while I have moved the bar it is time to get back in the saddle and exercise where my experience and background can deliver extraordinary results. Once I reflected I was amazed at how little personal progress I had made expanding on my current capability in either breath or depth. I reached out to my former CEO and we had a long conversation and he provided guidance and a wonderful perspective.

So while I have been able to breeze comfortably that comfort left a huge void due to the very nature of my personality and the need to learn and grow. You HELPED me see that in a single conversation.
Partner, Technology Company

Sheila has helped me setting up DPAC councils. She is really good at getting us to go deeper and improve relationships so quickly. I haven’t even touched the service of her expertise and abilities.
Anonymous

The exercise of force ranking your values is very powerful and has me going.  There’s a lot of self-examination going on inside me right now.  This could not have happened at a better time.
Director, Technology Company

I just want to thank you for your time and effort for the 3 days leadership program.  I really enjoyed the program and the network.  In fact I mostly enjoyed the case study in day 2 and 3.  These are a good challenges and actual opportunities for us to step up as new leaders.

Thank again for a job well prepared.
Chief Accounting Officer, Oil and Gas Company

I learn so much every time we meet.  What a gift!  Thank you.
Leadership Team, Health Care

(Sheila) has helped me to consciously assess my approach in dealing with business issues. I am trying to deal with issues strategically rather than functionally.

Sheila gets my brain to think about things in a different way regarding my leadership and vision for my group.

Also she made me think of what I do well and recognize the skills that I should help teach to others – not used to thinking about myself in those terms.

The more personal or real relationships are and the more ownership there is of issues or tasks the greater change there is of success.  Teams that have bonded, or where there are no hidden agendas or jealousy can make the greatest contributions.
Anonymous