Ignition Coaching is a team of experienced coaches based in New York, Hong Kong and London specializing in Career, Executive and Resilience Coaching. Clients report that through coaching they are able to achieve greater career fulfilment, resilience and performance in the workplace.

As an Associate coach, Shannon works with clients who have graduated through to Senior Executives. Our clients have included Goldman Sachs, New York Power Authority, Deloitte, Nomura, Tesco, Ernst & Young, Alliance Bernstein, Dream, and Regeneron.

Imagine holding up a mirror to see the leader within you.

The Leadership Circle Profile (LCP) is an innovative breakthrough in 360° profiling. It is the first comprehensive 360° leadership assessment tool to combine core leadership competencies with inner developmental traits, offering a holistic view of your effectiveness as a leader. It integrates:

Creative Competencies – Effective behaviors like fostering relationships, achieving results, and strategic thinking.
Reactive Tendencies – Internal barriers like control, compliance, and protective actions that may limit potential.

With intuitive visuals and a research-backed framework, LCP aligns with your goals to drive growth and performance.

Ready to transform as a leader from the inside out?

Shannon was selected as a Goleman Emotional Intelligence meta coach in the second cohort of the 9-month coach certification program. Grounded in the evidence-based framework of The Emotional Intelligence Leadership Competency Model developed by Daniel Goleman, EI coaching draws upon the best of what we know about the brain and habit change.

As a certified coach Shannon transforms EI from theory into practice and meaningful action. Goleman EI has supported initiatives as diverse as the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the World Economic Forum's (WEF) Coalition for Digital Intelligence, and the daily life of schools, hospitals, and businesses across the world.

Gain personal insights into your leadership and emotional intelligence traits through predictive analytics that will help you design growth plans and improve your influence.

Shannon is a certified Harrison Partner, one of 600 in 61 countries. For over 30 years Harrison has been providing the most trusted and accurate employee assessment tools in the industry, helping change leaders to better understand themselves and improve their performance.

The GC Index® is a technology-based organimetric assessment tool that increases insights around the competencies of team roles such as game changer, strategist, implementer, polisher or playmaker.

The community of accredited GCologists includes Shannon Houde, and the GC Partners include Walk of Life Coaching – working together to deliver solutions that accelerate individual, team and organisational impact.

Shannon partnered with Acre to recruit top talent for her teams and was placed into Deloitte by Acre. She then launched her career coaching offering under the Acre brand in 2008, which she ran for four years before spinning off her own brand, Walk of Life Coaching.

Shannon now sits on the Acre Bench, a vetted selection of leading market experts and accredited consultants, and she offers a range of consulting support including around diversity and inclusion, leadership assessments and well-being.