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It's time for your next big leap but unsure where to begin?

Feel supported at every step with a trusted career partner

Together we will craft your future, not just your next position

 

This isn’t just about landing your next role...

It’s about scaling your impact, creating legacy and leading with intention, every step of the way. You don’t just need another coach - you need a trusted partner who sees the complexity of your path.

Introducing...

The Whole Journey

From proving your value to influencing the board - we’re at your side for every pivotal career advancement

Themes Covered

Career Coaching

Shift Careers

You want to shift into a career that makes a difference and creates a lasting positive impact.

It's time to break down the entire job search process into clear steps and make your dream job a reality with our signature career coaching program.

Career Coaching

Land The Job

You've worked hard and your personal branding is on point. Shannon will now coach you through converting contacts into job opportunities, making LinkedIn do the work for you and interviewing with confidence and gravitas.

Onboarding

Ensure Success

You’ve landed that dream job so now it’s time to ensure your success in your first 90 days with intentional focus.

Shannon will support you to integrate into your new role and team, navigate new culture, build key stakeholder relationships and pace your impact.

Executive Coaching

Grow Influence

You’re in your dream job but professional growth doesn’t stop here.

Shannon will support you to shift mindsets, gain critical senior management buy-in, use Emotional Intelligence to empower and motivate your teams and build trust through empathy.

Our exclusive Whole Journey program

How would it feel to have Shannon guiding you from landing your next big role to advancing your personal influence and executive presence?

  • Ensure your promotability and career growth
  • Build your executive presence with proactive influencing skills
  • Grow your personal gravitas with tricks to land a Board role and public speaking opportunities
  • Gain revealing insights about the power of your unique leadership skills with the Leadership Circle Profile 360 assessment
  • Realize your legacy vision with a clear five-year career plan
  • Understand the secret market trends that are relevant to you
  • Set yourself up for success when creating trust with new stakeholders in the first 90 days

What is Included?

Lead at the next level without doing it alone

See if this is the turning point your career needs...

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We've coached change leaders from getting promoted to influencing buy-in at:

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Shannon has been a catalysing partner over two years. The Whole Journey program has been instrumental in landing my dream job and in building my resilience and emotional intelligence as a change leader. She helped me keep my authenticity while stepping into a more senior role and driving change with new stakeholders.

I highly recommend working with Shannon and her Walk of Life team. They have a well-developed curriculum, thoughtful resources, and a well-researched approach to recruitment, positioning, and networking.

After 9 years in one role, I was ready to grow as a sustainability leader but wasn’t being valued. The Whole Journey gave me exactly what I needed - sector expertise, a clear structure and Shannon’s coaching that was both firm and encouraging. We then completed the Leadership Circle Profile 360 degree assessment which was a revealing and in-depth look at my own skills through the lens of colleagues and bosses compared to how I viewed myself. It shifted my entire approach from aimless applying to strategically going after dream roles. The tools I gained, like leveraging LinkedIn and mastering interviews, still guide me today.

Anne-laure Brison
Senior Manager, Chemical Industry
WBCSD

Bryan Sheehan
Managing Director, ESG and Carbon Strategies
WAP Sustainability

Terry Duffina
Director, Sustainability Program Office
Stanford Health Care

Shannon has been a catalysing partner over two years. The Whole Journey program has been instrumental in landing my dream job and in building my resilience and emotional intelligence as a change leader. She helped me keep my authenticity in shaping impact. With compassion, Shannon challenged me to live into my growth edge and push beyond my comfort zone of status quo.

Anne-laure Brison
Senior Manager, Chemical Industry
WBCSD

I highly recommend working with Shannon and her Walk of Life team. They have a well-developed curriculum, thoughtful resources, and a well-researched approach to recruitment, positioning, and networking.

Bryan Sheehan
Managing Director, ESG and Carbon Strategies
WAP Sustainability

After 9 years in one role, I was ready to grow as a sustainability leader but wasn’t being valued or supported. The Whole Journey gave me exactly what I needed - sector expertise, a clear structure and Shannon’s coaching that was both firm and encouraging. It shifted my entire approach from aimless applying to strategically going after dream roles. The tools I gained, like leveraging LinkedIn and mastering interviews, still guide me today. It was truly transformational.

Terry Duffina
Director, Sustainability Program Office
Stanford Health Care

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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 Profile™, 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...

Shannon Houde

Executive Leadership and Career Transition Coach

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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.

Why the Leadership Circle Profile?

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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We plant one tree for every hour of coaching sold, dating back to 2008 when the business was founded.

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