Author - Shannon Houde

Shannon Houde, an Impact Entrepreneur correspondent, is an ICF-PCC certified Executive & Leadership Coach with 20+ years as a trusted partner to organizations, evolving leaders and the C-suite on their journey to balance progress with human sustainability across technology, finance, professional services, and conservation sectors.
She listens to inspire leaders to reach personal purpose and peak performance, calibrates insights through values-driven assessments, and designs tangible tools to support personal development.

Over 15 years ago Shannon founded Walk of Life Coaching, the first international leadership development and talent advisory business focused on ESG, human sustainability, and corporate responsibility.

Multi-lingual, having lived in Chile, Italy, France, Switzerland, and the UK, she is also a published author and public speaker.

Her coaching is underpinned by her qualifications in the Leadership Circle Profile, Emotional Intelligence for Leaders, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, Korn Ferry’s ESCI, The Game Changer Index, and the Harrison Assessment.

She holds an MBA from Thunderbird Graduate School in International Management and a BA in Sociology from the University of Colorado at Boulder.