Design the Program.
Build the Infrastructure.
Scale What Matters.

Leadership Coaching Organizational Development Consulting Group Facilitation

I design leadership programs that government agencies and nonprofits use to support workforce development and organizational change. These programs result in a measurable capability shift across your teams and are designed to be sustainable and adaptable.

Twenty plus years of professional experience — from museum interpretation and professional sports to nonprofit consulting and media production — emerging in the age of artificial intelligence, anchored in human-centered design.

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Individual & Team Coaching Leadership Program Design Program Evaluation Workforce Development
Shelly Bennett, leadership coach and program designer
Shelly Bennett MA
University of the Pacific
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Selected Work

Where Coaching Meets Impact

Two current threads of my leadership development work are coming online for individuals, teams and organizations. One original coach model, and one newly designed leadership program.

Virtual Cohort

ILS for Emerging Leaders

Leadership is knowing how to move through the room. Virtual or in person sessions built on the Interpersonal Leadership Style (ILS) framework: emotional intelligence, flexible leadership, stress behaviors, and the adaptive behavior that moves people and projects forward.

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Original IP · Coaching Model

Proprietary Coach Model

My model for coaching toward liberation, synthesized from years of practice with the coachee or team at the center through structured agreements, focused outcomes, and genuine partnership. Extended through graduate research with a novel theory integrating self-knowledge with systemic analysis, presented at the Benerd College Academic Showcase.

↑ Reflective action · Sustained change Research Showcase
Theory Into Practice

Master of Arts
in Leadership

University of the Pacific · Benerd College

A program built for real-world leadership practitioners designing change in real organizations. The curriculum covers design thinking, change management, facilitation, and human-centered consulting. I use these methodologies directly with your teams.

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MA Concentration
Organizational Innovation and Change

AI is restructuring organizations faster than their internal systems can absorb. This is structural work I partner with you to reveal the architecture of why change is succeeding or failing inside your organization, and how to design for the difference.

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SCHOLARLY RESEARCH
My model of self-knowledge within systemic analysis
Most coaching models treat every constraint as a mindset problem, assuming leaders have unlimited agency to choose differently. My research starts with what that assumption misses: systemic barriers are real, structural, and can operate at scale.

I developed the RESET Coach Model™ through practice-based research with leaders navigating oppressive organizational contexts. The RESET Coach Model™ synthesizes emancipatory coaching research with statistical theory to create measurable human-centered outcomes.

Benerd Showcase · Scholarly Commons