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Are you influencing decisions and leveraging your executive presence?

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Wanting to drive influence beyond your title?

Master your executive presence to negotiate board buy-in and lead cross-functional teams

Let's increase your gravitas to unite stakeholders

 

Start leading without overwhelm

What if your efforts were rewarded with influence, resilience and executive presence? That's the shift Grow Influence will help you create.

We've coached change leaders from getting promoted to developing influence at:

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How Grow Influence helps you lead with impact

A 12-session coaching program to elevate your performance with boards, teams and stakeholders

  • Dive in deep with 12 live coaching sessions with Shannon via Zoom
  • Advance your performance by tackling personal leadership challenges - imposter syndrome, board influence, boundaries, focus, executive presence, gravitas
  • Grow your gravitas by landing a Board role and public speaking opportunities
  • Personalize your leadership growth with leading-edge assessments (Leadership Circle Profile, Emotional Intelligence, Harrison, Game Changer Index, Korn Ferry)
  • Be introduced to Shannon's LinkedIn network of 8,100 impact leaders with reach to 20,000+ engaged followers

Tim Mohin
Partner and Director
Boston Consulting Group

How Does it Work?

Themes Covered

You want to discover personal balance and self-awareness while achieving professional growth

Leadership

Driving scalable change means taking others on the journey and making it feel like it was their idea. You have the courage, clear vision and ambition to be a change leader but want to keep evolving your skills of influence.

Emotional Intelligence

Effective leaders have strong self-awareness and build trusting relationships. You want to gain insights in order to communicate better, keep balanced, navigate conflict and empathize with others.

Resilience

Resilience is about adapting to change while paying attention and being more aware of our thoughts, emotions and physical signals. We live in a very distracting world and are overwhelmed by inputs that challenge our focus and balance.

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with senior stakeholders

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self-management during stress

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organizational change more effectively

Enhanced

team leadership with empathy & empowerment

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I was looking for support to help me make the leap from management to executive leadership. Shannon provided the perfect sounding board through my onboarding as a member of the Leadership team and preparing to launch the Sustainability & Impact business at Luminous. I especially appreciated the fact that Shannon has coached so many other people in similar roles and could help in bridging the US/UK divide – that specialist expertise is something I was specifically seeking.

Working with Shannon was transformative. With her help I was able to develop the clarity and confidence to reposition myself as a corporate sustainability leader. Through her tools and guidance, I identified where I truly wanted to lead and built the gravitas to step into that space. I refined my personal brand, aligned my LinkedIn and resume, and approached opportunities strategically. The result? A role where the head of HR called my resume one of the best she’d seen. Shannon’s approach continues to shape how I evaluate and grow in my leadership journey.

Shannon brought immense value to both our global project and my leadership journey. Her adaptable, expert guidance helped me build credibility, trust and visibility across 25 countries within a complex, matrixed organization. The transformation in team buy-in and mindset after her workshops was truly unprecedented. Shannon’s coaching strengthened my gravitas and confidence to lead at a senior level, opening doors I never imagined including building trusted relationships with country CEOs.

Rachel Madan
Executive Director
Luminous

Christine Riley Miller
Director of Sustainability
Samsonite

Mario Elias Gonzalez
Former Responsible Business Manager
CEMEX

We undertook a year of leadership coaching with the primary focus on emotional intelligence - awarness of self and awareness of others. Through coaching I learned how to orient myself for the other leaders in the room, to adapt to their mindset or learning style. It was so impactful that I then had Shannon coach two of my direct reports and facilitate two team training workshops on Emotional Intelligence.

Amon Rappaport
Chief Communications Officer
California State Polytechnic University

Shannon is one of those rare individuals who come along who influence how personal leadership is developed while discovering the authentic reasons why anyone should choose to be a leader in place of being a follower. Sustainability is about leading change management and while I am no longer working on sustainability programs, key messages from her teachings in sustainability leadership still resonate. I highly recommend Shannon as a mentoring and training resource for sustainability change management and leadership.

Jack Hamilton
Senior Managing Consultant
Wellspring

Shannon brought immense value to both our global project and my leadership journey. Her adaptable, expert guidance helped me build credibility, trust and visibility across 25 countries within a complex, matrixed organization. The transformation in team buy-in and mindset after her workshops was truly unprecedented. Shannon’s coaching strengthened my gravitas and confidence to lead at a senior level, opening doors I never imagined including building trusted relationships with country CEOs.

Mario Elias Gonzalez
Former Responsible Business Manager
CEMEX

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Shannon Houde

Executive Leadership and Career Transition Coach

About Shannon

Your coach, mentor and career partner

Shannon Houde has spent two decades mentoring, coaching and training more than 1,500 change leaders and CSOs in the impact sector across 25+ countries and over 4,000 hours of one-to-one support.

She founded Walk of Life, the first-of-its kind international career advisory business focused solely on corporate sustainability and ESG, more than 15 years ago.

As an ICF-certified executive coach accredited in the Leadership Circle Profileℱ, Shannon was selected as a meta coach for the Goleman Emotional Intelligence certification program. She is a published author of the book "Good Work" and has been a GreenBiz columnist for more than 10 years.

Her coaching is underpinned by 30 years in recruitment and 10 years as a sustainability consultant and in-house practitioner within Fortune 500 companies, management consultancies and recruitment agencies including Adobe, Barclays, BlackRock, Deloitte and WWF as well as...

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Shannon was a tremendous help to me. Her process is well-defined and easy to implement, with many practical tools that have been consistently helpful to me. I highly recommend her, regardless of where you are in your career path.

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We Walk Our Talk

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

Walk Of Life Coaching have decided to take Coldplay's lead and pledge to plant one tree for every hour of coaching sold, back dating to 2008 when Shannon started the business. That's an amazing 4,768 trees being planted!

In partnership with Ecologi.

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Leadership Circle Profileℱ

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?

As an ICF-PCC certified executive coach, Shannon is a Leadership Circle Profile coach and was selected as a Meta Coach to teach on Daniel Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence Coach Certification course. She is also certified in Harrison Assessments, The GameChanger Index, and Korn Ferry's ESCI 360. PCC credential holders are trained, experienced coaches with a commitment to high ethical standards. 

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