Sandra Shelton

She moves listeners to a higher, broader perspective for each one's potential that can be worked out to high productivity in everyday events. She has spoken to audiences as diverse as underwater construction and prisons to tug boat drivers and corporate and sales strategic planning committees. Shelton is a thought leader in workforce engagement, communication, team building, and leadership development. Her unique perspective comes from hands-on experience in academic and corporate leadership, nonprofit executive director, and business entrepreneur. She delights audiences and tells it like it is with passion, humor, and her personable attraction factor that draws in even the most resistant participant to effectively set the stage for a new motivation to engagement to implement new learning. An organization becomes what it allows, more than that, encourages and supports its members to achieve. The body of Shelton's work is from the premise that performance and productivity are a function of engagement coupled with the tenets of relationship understanding, that is, at the core of every business decision is a relationship issue. Actively disengaged employees, those fundamentally disconnected from their jobs, cost companies billions a year. The prestigious Gallup Organization's research consistently shows that actively disengaged workers tend to be significantly less productive, report being less loyal to their companies, are less satisfied with their personal lives, and are more stressed and insecure about their work than their colleagues. Actively disengaged workers miss an average of 3.5 more days per year than engaged workers. No argument. The best bottom line improvement resides in the workforce. Resources to generate then maintain an engaged workforce are not only necessary but smart. Shelton has developed StrengthBank® Communication WorkOuts® as the viable tool to motivate, build, and sustain an organization's engagement factor. She connects individual's bank of strengths to each one's highest point to work out excellence for business needs in quality, team building, service, sustainability. Consistent participant comments laud her energy and effectiveness in making complex subjects simple and doable. 90% of her business is repeat and referral based. Her clients list stretches over 1,200 entries including companies such as AT&T, American Airlines Coca-Cola, Federal Express, Hewlet Packard, Texas Instruments, US Steel or Walt Disney. In addition to writing two blogs and being a frequent radio talk show guest/commentator, Shelton has been also active as a book author. Her most notable books are The StrengthBank® Principle: Making Tomorrow's Dream Today's Direction and Service On Purpose: Engaged-to-the-Customer Employees Are A Company's Sustainability Factor. Educated in Texas, USA, she received her Master in Education from Sam Houston State University after completing her undergraduate Bachelor of Arts degree from Texas Tech University and her executive coach certification from Coach Training Alliance. She parlayed her education into what is her unique StrengthBank® Communication WorkOuts®.

What she presents:

Corporate Team Building: A Metaphor Gone Bad
How To Deal With Difficult People Who Sometimes Do Not "Make Your Day: Possibilities for working effectively with the "impossible" person to encourage a move to positive contribution.
Service On Purpose: Engaged-to-the-Customer Employees Are A Company's Sustainability Factor
What We Have Here Is A Failure To Communicate!: How To Have Effective Discourse, On-target Decision Making, And productive Work Relationships
The Character Of Leadership: Establishing and supporting a respectful, creative workplace of multi-generations, cultures, and unique talents.
Keynote and Endnote speeches: Sandra can tailor an existing program around your meeting theme