Sharon
Shoemaker,
founder of Fast Break Consulting,
has 20 years experience consulting
to or managing in business organizations. As
an advanced facilitator in the Group Facilitation
Training Program at
the Stanford University Graduate School
of Business, Ms. Shoemaker has coached
MBA students in the practice of authentic
communication and self-awareness.
The
name Fast Break Consulting expresses
Ms. Shoemaker’s
vision for the work she does and
is drawn from her lifelong passion
for basketball. In basketball, fast
breaks require a clear strategy and
excellent teamwork, two components
essential to high performance in
business. Like
a good coach, her role as a consultant
is to help companies accelerate their capacity to manage
change in ways that increase both individual
effectiveness and organizational performance.
Ms.
Shoemaker’s
work inside corporations has given
her a thorough understanding of how
organizations work and the levers
that generate and sustain change.
She has worked in a variety of organizational
environments including Sun Microsystems,
Inc. Raytheon Company, Gould Electronics
Group and Aritech Corporation. In
her most recent internal position,
Ms. Shoemaker was Director, US Employee
Relations and Operations, for Sun
Microsystems, Inc.
Fast Break Consulting
has established a network of seasoned
consultants with complementary skills
that are brought into engagements as
the need arises. Ms. Shoemaker is an
associate of the Systems
Consulting Consortium and the Learning
Solutions Alliance.
