Why SHAMBAUGH
SHAMBAUGH has more than twenty years of research and success in applying integrated solutions to address today's business leadership challenges.
We're unique thanks to our
- Customized approach
- Proven process
- Peer-to-peer framework
- Long-term solutions
Executive Coach and Senior Consultant
Jo has nearly 25 years of experience specializing in organizational effectiveness and coaching leaders. She has worked extensively with leaders and executive teams to develop and implement strategy, manage talent, lead organizational change, help with organizational redesign and mergers, and conduct cultural assessments and values clarification. She develops and facilitates talent management, primarily in the areas of succession replacement, planning, and management. She facilitates 360o feedback assessments and individual development planning and provides personalized executive coaching. Prior to working for SHAMBAUGH, Jo has held senior positions at the MITRE Corporation, as an internal Organizational Effectiveness Consultant; the US Government Accountability Office, and started her HR career at the International Monetary Fund. She has consulted to public, private and global organizations.
In the area of employee engagement, Jo has developed new employee on-boarding programs and orientation sessions; employee satisfaction and engagement surveys and action plans, and developed and monitored mentoring programs. She has received many awards for her work, particularly for designing and facilitating high engagement, large-scale strategic off-sites for management and staff. A favorite area of focus is working with intra-organizational teams to increase collaboration and teamwork. She’s coached executives for increased impact and results, support and increased trust, and greater self-insight to achieve their potential.
Jo has presented at many national and international conferences on distance learning and top management team’s meaning making efforts. In January 2010, she presented at the Washington DC Women's Networking Event, Five Ways to Ensure You Get What You Want. In 2009, she presented on Leadership Coaching for Toastmaster's International, and presented a paper at the Academy of Management in Chicago on top teams and their use of temporal metaphors. She published Boots on the Ground: Use and Implications of War Metaphors in a Top Team (2005) in the Organization and Management Journal, a peer reviewed journal. Additionally she published a chapter in the book, Sustaining Distance Training (2000), edited by Zane Berge, called “Attracting, Training, and Retaining Instructors for Distance Learning at the US General Accounting Office.”
She is a qualified administrator of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), and is certified to use the following tools: Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI), Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation-Behavior™ (FIRO-B) and 360 Degree feedback (certified through Personnel Decisions International), CPI 260 (leadership assessment tool), Strong Interest Inventory®, Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI), and Situational Leadership LBA II Assessments.
She earned her Doctor of Education and masters degrees from The George Washington University in Human and Organizational Learning. Her doctoral thesis is titled Work as War: A Phenomenological Study of Meaning Making Through Metaphor (2004). She also has a Master’s Degree in Spanish Literature from San Diego State University & the University of Madrid, Complutense. She earned a certificate in Leadership Coaching from Georgetown University and has been granted the designation of Associate Certified Coaching (ACC) from the International Coaching Federation.
Jo lives in Arlington, VA with her husband. She is a volunteer translator for KIVA, an international micro-lender for burgeoning entrepreneurs in developing countries. In her spare time she enjoys sailing, gardening, yoga, cooking, and traveling.