Monique Shields, Executive Coach, Founder of Seven Pines Leadership and Podcast Host of "Ambition Without Compromise", is committed to liberating the professional imaginations of WOC CEOs, Founders & Leaders.
As a coach, Monique leverages her own entrepreneurial and executive experience - plus nearly a decade combined of training in Co-Active mindset coaching, motivational interviewing, interpersonal dynamics, team building and communications - to help her clients find higher forms of leadership and intention in their lives and their businesses.
Monique was formerly on staff at the Stanford Graduate School of Business as a Facilitator for their Women in Management program as well as at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business a Leadership Coach for current MBAs and alumni executives.
Prior to launching Seven Pines, Monique was the Director of Coaching and then the Director of Partnerships at Joyable, a mental health technology start-up in San Francisco - employee #7. In her management roles, she built, led and scaled a client-facing team for a business that served nearly a half million users and managed relationships for the company's largest, most strategic global accounts. Personally, Monique is a wife, a mom of two and a fierce friend to amazing women.
She understands what it means to move through fear and distraction to clarify, communicate and act on a unique definition of success that refuses to compromise what matters most and she brings this perspective to the work she does with her clients.