Denise Shields

PCC

United States

Denise brings more than 30 years of corporate leadership and coaching experience, helping professionals navigate leadership challenges, career decisions, and significant transitions. Her background combines business leadership with expertise in leadership development, emotional intelligence, mindfulness, and personal growth.

As a coach, Denise helps clients clarify what matters most, better understand their strengths, explore opportunities, and make thoughtful decisions about what comes next. Her approach balances reflection with action, helping clients move forward with greater clarity, confidence, and purpose.

Denise recognizes that career transitions are rarely just about finding the next role. They are also an opportunity to consider how someone wants to work, lead, contribute, and define success. Drawing on decades of real-world leadership experience, she brings perspective, empathy, and thoughtful challenge to each coaching relationship.

Professional/Business Experience

Denise’s career spans more than three decades of corporate leadership, organizational development, talent development, and coaching. She has worked with leaders and professionals through organizational change, career transitions, evolving leadership responsibilities, and complex business challenges.

Denise holds a doctoral degree from Cardinal Stritch University, where her research explored the relationship between emotional intelligence and personal mastery, including mindfulness practice. This work continues to influence her coaching approach, particularly her emphasis on self-awareness and intentional decision-making.

Denise is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) through the International Coaching Federation. She is also certified in the EQ-i 2.0 and EQ 360 Emotional Intelligence assessments, is a Certified Mindfulness Teacher Professional, and holds the Certified Professional Retirement Coach designation.