Beth Shapiro, founder of TeamSpirit and sSquaredAssociates, specializes in coaching to improve performance, resolve conflict, and create sustainable change for leaders, teams, and organizations. Her work focuses on building capacity to create and maintain strong, strategic, effective relationships. Beth also trains, supervises, and mentors coaches--both within organizations and in private practice.
Areas of Expertise
Coaching and Facilitation
- Leadership and executive coaching, leader development
- Relationship skills and communication coaching for individuals and groups
- Team coaching aimed at preventing/reducing conflict and enhancing sustainable team performance. Experience with a variety of types of teams including leadership, operational, cross-functional, and project-oriented.
- Facilitation of open conversations on challenging topics among work groups and communities
Training and Curriculum Design
- Design and deslivery of enterprise-wide experiential training aimed at increasing workforce engagement and mission effectiveness
- Design and delivery of large-scale train-the-trainer projects to increase internal experiential training capacity
- Training, supervising, and mentoring professional coaches, including relationship systems coaches and leadership coaches becoming certified in The Leadership Circle assessment tools
- Design of “Visioning Change” workshops to guide people in creating personal and community/world change
Organizational Systems Assessment
- Licensed facilitator of The Leadership Circle leadership and organizational assessment tools
- Authorized facilitator of the Team Diagnostic systems assessment tool
Qualifications and Experience
Beth is a Certified Professional and Relationship Systems Coach (CPCC, PCC, ORSCC), and holds a Master in Public Administration (MPA) from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Her background includes 20+ years of management, leadership, and team-development work, 14 years of experiential training, and 5 years as a professional coach.
She has provided coaching and training in a variety of settings including Federal and state government, higher education, nonprofits, and a number of private sector industries.
As subject matter expert for coaching and experiential Learning, Beth played a leading role in the U.S. Transportation Security Administration’s Security Evolution trainings, featured on 60 Minutes and MSNBC.com. She was on the IDEO design team that developed the trainings, and was the designer and leader of an extensive train-the-trainer program that prepared more than 1,000 TSA employees to train the entire 50,000+ workforce. The Department of Homeland Security included this transformational TSA program among their top 10 successes for 2008.
Beth serves on the faculties of the prestigious Coaches Training Institute (CTI), and the Center for Right Relationship, both schools certified by the International Coach Federation. She is also a co-founder of The Coaches Studio, an organization aimed at raising the bar for skill development in the coaching profession.
Trained in Adventure-Based Counseling, Beth has worked in outdoor and challenge settings with people involved in recovery from violence and other trauma. She trains team leaders to provide effective experiential learning for this population.
Testimonials
"Beth’s sharp acumen about people and systems, combined with her gentle but high-spirited nature, enables her to connect with individuals and groups at every level of the organization. She provides clients with a challenging, supportive place to create useful learning and lasting change. Her commitment to excellence inspires leaders and teams to achieve their highest potential and most ambitious goals."
“Beth’s specific skills are top notch, but what she really gave us was herself. Her ability to hold so much complexity and make sense of it all helped us make sense of it, too. This project would not have achieved such success without her.”
Stephanie Rowe, Former Executive Director,
Security Evolution, U.S. Transportation Security Administration
“As my leadership coach, Beth helped me understand my role so much more deeply. She really taught me how to choose the impact I want to have and direct my actions in line with that. When she began working with our team, she brought out our clarity and courage. We were able to take risks in communicating with each other and that let us iron out so much that was in our way. Now we are well positioned to face the challenges ahead together. We know we’re really a team.”
Tracey Gearlds, Director, Campus Life Services,
University of California at San Francisco
Recent Clients
U.S. Transportation Security Administration, IDEO, University of California at San Francisco, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Scripps Networks, Aduro Consulting, Retail Optimization, Inc., Elm Street Ventures, Oxfam America, World Education, CORA-Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse, Keene Downtown Group, Good Fortune, Inc.
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