Ignite Your Leadership
Inspire teams. Navigate change successfully. Optimize impact.
Services to elevate your leadership
Individual Coaching
Leadership Experiences
Individual Coaching
The Ignite Coaching Program is an elite coaching experience designed to propel you to the next level of leadership. Through a collaborative process, we'll identify your critical leadership goals and craft a personalized roadmap for achieving them.
Team Coaching
Leadership Experiences
Individual Coaching
We will design customized team coaching to meet the unique needs of your team.
Cultivate a collaborative culture, increase productivity, retain talent, and increase overall team/organization performance.
Leadership Experiences
Leadership Experiences
Leadership Experiences
We offer cohort-based leadership training experiences across the year. These programs integrate training, peer support, and coaching. The programs are designed to provide practical, hands-on cohort experience designed to support system-level leaders in education and the social sector to build skills, elevate perspectives, and successfully lead at the next level.
Testimonials
I was fortunate enough to be coached by Paula during a professional transition time, when I was overwhelmed by the thought of having to decide where to go next in my career. Her support allowed me to engage in deep self-reflection and to quiet the “noise” within and around me—self-doubt, fears, input from others. I was able to define the work that was both inspiring to me and where I could have the most impact as a leader, and to focus my energy in those areas.
–Talia Shaull, CHRO at The Wallace Foundation
Paula Shannon is that rare individual who possesses both instinct and skills. Whether she is working with someone at the start of a career or a seasoned and tested professional, Paula offers keen insights and guidance that make a real impact in people’s lives. As a practitioner, she is a standout.
–Elsa Marquez, Founder & CEO at The Leadership Consultancy
Paula's coaching and guidance has been a transformational experience for me this year. She has put together a thoughtful arc of engagement and learning, with a range of supporting materials. While there's an intentional sequence, she has also been responsive to timely questions, needs, and interests in any given session. She asks great questions, captures and shares themes across sessions, and offers insights that push my thinking and inform my leadership actions. I have a clearer sense of my strengths, my goals, my values, and my learning edges, and I am excited to continue to deepen that understanding of myself as a leader and a human. If you are interested in an identity- and values-based approach, I recommend working with Paula.
-Heather Johnson, VP Ed Vestors
Meet Paula shannon
Paula Shannon
Paula Shannon, founder of Whole Leader Lab, is a passionate advocate for mission-driven leaders, empowering them to achieve results while staying true to themselves and living sustainable lives.
With extensive experience leading large-scale organizations, managing diverse teams, and overseeing substantial budgets, Paula brings expertise in strategic planning, organizational transformation, people management, operational excellence, and stakeholder engagement to her coaching practice.
Through one-on-one leadership coaching, team development and coaching, and leadership development experiences, Paula helps leaders develop resilience, achieve work-life balance, navigate complex dynamics, build high-performing teams, communicate effectively, and enhance strategic thinking and decision-making skills.
Her holistic approach to leadership enables clients to explore the tensions present in being responsive while inclusive, caring for people while driving results, and balancing the demands of today with the risks associated with being innovative and bold for the future.
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Whole Leader Lab
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