The Big Five For Life
As we embark on 2025, there is of course talk of resolutions and goals. Such planning tools are great, but I propose that we have…
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Your culture can inspire or drain employees.
Imagine a workplace culture that invites employees to be their most productive and creative.
Leaders strive to create cultures of engagement, attract, develop and retain top talent, and produce strong results. But there are various reasons why your workplace lacks these competitive advantages – inconsistent values, poor communication, inadequate delegation, and lack of accountability, to name a few. Leadership consultant and executive coach Shani Magosky works in partnership with you and your leaders to shift your culture to a dynamic one that inspires committed employees who WANT to delight your customers and execute on your business strategy.
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Better culture leads to greater success.
Most senior leaders live and breathe their business strategy, yet very few focus the same effort on creating the right culture - one that support the execution of the strategy. Simply put, culture is what leaders tolerate of themselves and others. Elevating the importance of culture to the same level as strategy is THE KEY to greater success.
How will we shift your company’s culture? A bunch of long, boring lectures or endless PowerPoint slides? #NoWay! Our LeaderShift System and simple yet powerful tools will help you build a culture of trust, engagement, and execution excellence.
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What is The LeaderShift Project?
It's where business strategy and culture finally meet.
Imagine what the workplace would be like if it were filled with better leaders. Your best employees would stick around. They’d be more productive. Customer satisfaction would go up. You’d make more money. One person—a better leader—can change an environment. And a better environment can change everything.
People leave poor managers or toxic cultures, not companies. When you're a leader, the responsibility to have a successful team is in your hands. That means you have a choice to build a culture that inspires your team, or one that drains it. A choice to cut the BS rhetoric and do something bold and different.
We have two goals.
We want to make your job—as a leader—more fulfilling, to help you show up at work every day in a way that gets you the respect you deserve, the business results you commit to, and the career trajectory you want.
We also want to help make your team, department, business unit, and entire organization deliver above-target results.
All of this starts with a being a great leader who sustains an empowering culture in which your people consistently deliver on your brand promise. This is how to delight customers and boost profits. It's where business strategy and culture meet. And we can show you how.
LeaderShift Blog
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January 28, 2021 Do you know where your perfectionism came from? I do. (And if you don’t, that’s something I will help you uncover…
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November 18, 2020 tl;dr It’s easy to say “Good riddance, 2020!” but it’s also important to remember the good with the not-so-bad. Maybe reading my…
How to break the obsessive inbox-checking habit: A 12-step program you need to know about
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Worry, Stress, and Anxiety: What’s the difference?
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Actionable Steps for Creating Space for Race-Based Discussions in the Workplace
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June 30, 2020 By: guest contributor Carla Lopez of boomerbiz.org When you’ve poured your heart, soul, and bank account into your own business, it can…
Lead with love in human-to-human conversations about race and racial injustice
June 10, 2020 As our hearts break watching violence and systemic racism against the black community, while still navigating COVID-19 dynamics and economic insecurity, I…
3 Missteps for non-POC leaders to avoid right now
June 8, 2020 The content here is excerpted and summarized from a June 1st article I loved in Harvard Business Review, by Laura Morgan Roberts…
GAIN™ Your Way to Professional and Personal Well-Being
April 30, 2018 A mission-critical principle that is typically not taught in business school or corporate trainings is the idea that how we show up…
“How Organizations Can React to #MeToo – At Every Level” in SmartBrief
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“Prime Your Workplace for Diversity and Inclusion” featured in September Issue of Legal Management
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The Sound of Workplace Silence
January 16, 2017 As a Gen X’er, I grew up in a home where my parents’ musical preferences prominently featured Simon and Garfunkel. Even though…
Shani Magosky
Founder / Consultant / Executive Coach / Facilitator
Accenture-style expertise. IKEA-like simplicity. Jon Stewart-esque irreverence. This is what you get when you work with Shani Magosky.
Beginning her career at Chase Manhattan Bank in their esteemed Management Development Program, Shani left to join Goldman Sachs, where she worked for over a decade in New York and Chicago analyzing, executing, and marketing deals for a wide variety of companies globally. After leaving Wall Street, Shani was the first General Manager of media startup Plum TV in Vail, CO, where she was challenged to outdistance an entrenched competitor. The station was a finalist for the Best Emerging Business Award by the Vail Chamber & Tourism Bureau in its first full year in business. Her next role was five years as COO/CFO of an entirely virtual international marketing firm. The expertise Shani developed managing that highly distributed workforce is greatly sought after by those leading flexible, virtual, and multi-generational teams. The LeaderShift Project™ comes from years of experience working with leaders at all levels and focuses on creating better leaders who then drive cultures of high engagement and performance excellence.
In addition to decades of hard-earned corporate leadership stripes, Shani is also a:
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⇒ Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coach Federation (ICF)
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⇒ Certified Co-Active Professional Coach (CPCC) through the Co-Active Training Institute (CTI)
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⇒ Certified Neuroscience and Relational Trauma Coach (NCRT)
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⇒ Graduate of CTI’s transformational Co-Active Leadership Program
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⇒ Certified Leadership Circle Profile and Leadership Culture practitioner, utilizing individual and collective leadership effectiveness frameworks
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⇒ Trained Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) practitioner
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⇒ Team Coaching International (TCI) Team Diagnostic™ Trained
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⇒ Certified Barrett Values Centre Culture Transformation consultant
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⇒ Certified DISC TTI Talent Insights Behavioral Assessment consultant
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⇒ Certified Inside Out Coaching (GROW) Master Trainer and Executive Coach
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⇒ Trained Positive Intelligence® (the X-Factor in Performance & Happiness) practitioner
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⇒ Certified Crucial Conversations facilitator
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⇒ Certified DDI Manager Ready Assessment facilitator
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⇒ Certified Take Back Your Life Productivity facilitator/coach
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⇒ Adjunct instructor of Culture and People modules for the grant-sponsored Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program
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⇒ Guide for Chief, a private membership network focused on connecting and supporting VP to c-suite female leaders
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⇒ Author of The Better Boss Blueprint
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⇒ Host of The LeaderShifter Show Podcast
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⇒ Developer of the Mindset Medicine app
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⇒ Volunteer coach/mentor for Dress for Success and American Corporate Partners
Finally, Shani is a Certified Neuroscience and Relational Trauma Coach (NCRT) with a specialty in helping people heal from trauma from relationships with narcissists or other toxic people in their personal and/or professional lives.
In her free time, you can find Shani rock climbing, mid-vinyasa at her favorite yoga studio, playing tennis or planning her next travel adventure (so far, 57 countries and 46 U.S. states).
Testimonials
Director, Global Non-Profit
“I wanted to share some amazing news—last week, I was promoted to a Director role! It’s such an exciting step, and I’m incredibly thankful for the time we’ve spent together in our sessions. Your guidance has truly made an impact, and I’m grateful to have had you as part of my community.”
Chairman, Public Relations Company
“There are many things I am thankful for in my life and a few stand out as primary. One of them is that I know a philosopher, and she sends me emails that are both insightful and make me think about things that would otherwise go unnoticed. You are, of course, my philosopher. Thanks for…
Leadership Development Workshop Participant
“I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your [leadership] seminar at the LPU. It has made my life so much easier. Helping people is a deep, inner need for me. I thought that was only possible if I always had a solution, an answer, ready for everyone. I felt…
Managing Director at Goldman Sachs
“Shani has been an invaluable resource for my career overall and professional development as a business leader. She is incredibly thoughtful and strategic in helping me enhance my specific career goals. From brainstorming business planning to navigating sensitive and complex team topics, Shani has successfully coached me through them all. I believe I am a…
Senior Operations Manager at Fortune 500 Insurance Company
“I started coaching with Shani to improve my team management skills. It was right after four of my direct reports quit and two blamed me. The results have been phenomenal – I now have a happy team, we’re connected and passionate about our business, and working together. An unexpected result was I now have a…
C-Suite Media Industry Executive
“Shani is my coach and does an amazing job – truly the best coach I’ve had in my career. She has a fun, stress-free way of interacting but always gets to the root of the challenge/problem for the day, asking probing questions, guiding me in considering my options/solutions and always helping me get to closure…
LeaderShifter Show Podcast Listener
“Love your smarts, sass, and river of flowing metaphors.”
Managing Director at Goldman Sachs
“Shani has been an invaluable resource for my career overall and professional development as a business leader. She is incredibly thoughtful and strategic in helping me enhance my specific career goals. From brainstorming business planning to navigating sensitive and complex team topics, Shani has successfully coached me through them all. I believe I am a…
Ready to ``get your SHIFT together`` (i.e. finally merge your business strategy and culture)?
The LeaderShift Project has a pretty lofty dream: we want to see a world filled with better leaders. Why? Because great leaders build better cultures, and most company cultures today are mediocre, inconsistent, and poorly defined; the worst ones are downright toxic. Better cultures inspire committed employees who WANT to delight your customers and execute on your business strategy.
