
Shaffer Coaching helps leaders, faculty, and organizations navigate meaningful change with clarity, confidence, and intention.
For career advancement, leadership development, or myriad workplace challenges, we offer executive coaching, workshops, facilitation, and equity-informed strategy.
Grounded in a holistic, results-based approach, our work combines reflection, practical strategy, accountability, and thoughtful attention to institutional context. The result is support that helps people move forward with purpose and build sustainable professional growth.
Our customized, interactive workshops use a collaborative, strengths-based approach designed to provide concrete outcomes, strategy and tools to empower our clients to pursue sustainable professional and organizational growth.
What We Do

Leadership Development & Consulting
Support for organizations seeking thoughtful planning, culture change, and professional development aligned with mission and values.
Leadership development provides support for established and emerging leaders who want to increase self-awareness, strengthen people-management skills, navigate transitions, and lead with greater intention and effectiveness.

Academic and Executive Coaching
Confidential, individualized coaching for faculty, administrators, and professionals seeking support with career direction, leadership challenges, decision-making and workplace complexity.
Clients identify goals for growth and learn to embrace their own potential through self-initiated change.

Workshops & Facilitation
Interactive sessions that help strengthen communication, leadership, belonging, and equity-minded practice.
We design programs tailored to your specific audience, your culture, and your goals. Our workshops, retreats and facilitated conversations, provide experiences that empower our clients to pursue sustainable organizational growth.
Trusted by hundreds of clients and 60+ institutions nationwide

