Sherri Lassila

Sherri Lassila has been an executive coach and leadership development facilitator for the past 20 years. She has worked with hundreds of professionals, including senior leaders in Fortune 500 and entrepreneurial companies, to accelerate their impact and influence, and grow into their next-level of authentic and inspired leadership.

As a coach, Sherri is known for blending transformational inner work with practical and powerful results. What sets her apart is her combination of Stanford MBA/business leadership background and 20-year path of transformational work and mindfulness meditation. This gives her a unique ability to work with talented high-achieving leaders and quickly find the “unlock points” that unleash a higher level of power and potential, and shift previously hard-to-change patterns at their root. Combining this with an action-learning-orientation, she helps clients experiment with new mindsets, ways of being, and stretch behaviors, as well as build new capabilities and skills. She brings an extensive background and set of methodologies, along with a highly intuitive, and supportive yet challenging approach.

In addition to her executive coaching practice, Sherri teaches courses in authentic leadership and unleashing creative potential at Stanford University Continuing Studies and through the Stanford Graduate School of Business Alumni Center. She served as co-leader of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Women In Management Groups Program, and lead faculty for The Shift Network’s Leadership Academy, a year-long program combining retreats, online learning, small group and individual coaching. She is also the Founder of Professional Reboot – a coaching program that helps women create more meaning and balance in their careers.

Having lived and learned through the ups and downs of starting a mission-driven company, Sherri is passionate about supporting leaders who want to contribute their talents toward a calling that fully inspires them. She also brings a special expertise in women’s leadership development – in particular, developing the inner capacities, skills and support systems that research shows women need to lead at their best. In this capacity, she draws on both the latest research and her 10 years of experience facilitating multi-year women’s groups on transformational leadership, career transition, professional fulfillment and balance. As a mother of two, Sherri has a deep commitment to creating new models and pathways for making a leadership impact while raising a family, and to building a community and culture where women’s leadership thrives at unprecedented levels.

Professional Highlights:

• 15 years as an executive coach, career coach, women’s group facilitator, and workshop leader
• 5 years as an organizational change management consultant with Deloitte & Touche
• 6 years on the executive teams of two education and leadership development start-ups
• Founder, President, and Program Director, LifeGuides
• Vice President, Training and Coaching Services, Insight Out Collaborations
• Trained and managed a nationwide team of 25 coaches and trainers
• Redesigned a Stanford Business School course on authentic leadership and unleashing creative potential for use in corporations; facilitated programs for senior executives

Representative Clients (Partial List)

I have worked with clients from a wide variety of organizations including: Charles Schwab, Genentech, Lyft, Federal Reserve Bank, Google, Expedia, Nickelodeon, Gap, Danaher, Hewlett Packard, Clorox, and a broad range of start-ups, smaller companies, and non-profits.

I have also worked with teams and facilitated workshops for a wide variety of organizations including: Stanford Graduate School of Business, Conscious Capitalism Bay Area, Wisdom 2.0, Wisdom Women, Linkage Women In Leadership Institute, Schouten China – Co-Active Coach Training Program, Inspired Beijing, Global Leadership Institute, Charles Schwab, Pacific Theatres, Hewlett Packard, Clorox, Pacific Bell, Aspire Public Schools, California State Universities, Children’s Virtues Development Project in China, Kaiser Permanente.

Degrees

• Stanford Graduate School of Business, Masters in Business Administration (MBA), 1995
• Stanford University School of Education, Masters in Education (MA), 1996
• Cornell University, B.S. Human Development & Family Studies, Cum Laude, 1990

Certifications And Trainings:

I have had the great privilege to study and work with amazing teachers and mentors, and integrate these principles and practices into my coaching approach.

• Creativity In Business (Michael Ray, Stanford Graduate School of Business): Certified Instructor, and co-developed the corporate train-the-trainer program
• Coaches Training Institute: Coach Certification Program and Co-Active Leadership Program
• Feminine Power: Transformative Coaching Certification, Transformative Leadership Certification, Transformational Facilitation Training
• The Potential Project: Corporate-Based Mindfulness Training Certification
• NeuroLeadership Institute: Associate Coach Certification
• Integral Coaching Canada: Associate Coach Certification
• Executive Coaching Institute: Coach Training
• Global Leadership Institute – Team Coach Training and Certification
• The Leadership Circle Profile Certification (360 Assessment)
• Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Certification
• Certified “Mutual Awakening” Practitioner – relational mindfulness and “we-space” practices to take partners and groups into greater collective presence and co-creativity (by Patricia Albere)
• Somatic Coaching and Embodied Leadership training
• Thomas Huebl Timeless Wisdom Training – meditation, intuition, transparent communication, shadow work, collective shadow, somatic awareness and mindfulness. (2 year certificate program)
• Trained in Art of Hosting, Circle Facilitation, World Café, Open Space, and other methods of conscious dialogue and community building
• Trained in a variety of meditation techniques, Eastern wisdom traditions, and energy healing methods including Reiki (Master Level), Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) and several others
• 15+ years of intensive personal development and transformational work