Shirley McAlpine

Executive Coaching, Top Team Work, Leadership Development, Org Development

Chicago, Illinois

Shirley has a passion for development and transformation, her clients include Fortune 100 companies, small businesses and Foundations including L’Oreal, Color of Change, Open Society Foundations, Civil Rights Corp, IBM, the Clinton Foundation, UN Foundation, BP, the NFL, the Global Alliance for Clean Cooking, Shell, KPMG, Takeda, Campaign for Black Male Achievement, and Windsor Leadership Trust.

In 2017 she designed and Chaired the very first ‘Inspiring Black and Asian Leader’ Windsor Leadership program delivered at Windsor Castle in September 2017.

Shirley’s successful Chicago based coaching, consulting practice and online training business works with senior leaders, and C suite executives, with a primary, not exclusive, focus on senior women including Women of Color.

Her coaching has an ontological underpinning and is grounded in developing active listening skills, improving emotional intelligence, Gestalt
Theory, working with systems and mindful reflection. Her work includes both individual as well as team coaching.

She is PCC accredited by International Coaching Federation and Faculty on one of only 50 fully accredited ICF programs globally. She has also designed an ICF program on Race for coaches continual development with CEUs. She is trained in Helliger’s Systemic theory, EQ, Gestalt, and an accredited Intercultural Development Inventory Assessor (IDI).

Over the years her diversity work has included supporting the launch of the Soros Equality Fellowship and coached Fellows who are leaders influencing the racial justice field. Delivering Diversity Engagement Sessions to the top 1000 leaders in Shell. She led an award-winning organizational change diversity program, called People Matter, at M & S leading suppliers. She also designed and delivered the diversity and Inclusion program called ‘Daring to be Different’ for all Partners in KPMG UK.

She has spent the last 10 years providing leadership and coaching services to the National Association of Certified Professional Midwives to support the expansion of their critical work.