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
Rebecca Shambaugh
President and CEO
Coaching Development, Leadership and Organizational Development, Women in Leadership and Learning
A nationally known leadership strategist, Rebecca Shambaugh has over twenty years of experience helping organizations and executives respond to critical leadership challenges and opportunities in today’s business environment. Rebecca is President and CEO of SHAMBAUGH, where she founded Women In Leadership and Learning (WILL), an organization dedicated to the research, advancement, and retention of women leaders and executives.
Throughout her career, Rebecca has coached and worked with top senior executives on timely leadership areas such as crisis and change management, communications strategies, culture development, human capital development, and corporate governance. Prior to starting her own company, she worked for such premier organizations as General Motors, Fairchild Industries, and Amax Inc. as a senior executive in the leadership and human resources arena. Rebecca founded the first executive leadership development program in the country devoted exclusively to optimizing the leadership skills of executive women. Her WILL programs have become an integral part of the advancement strategies of women leaders. Rebecca discusses leadership issues on her blog at www.shambaughleadership.com.
Rebecca partners with a cross section of clients such as AOL Time Warner, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Capital One, Department of Interior, Ernst and Young, Fidelity, Freddie Mac, IBM, Intelsat, Marriott Corporation, MedImmune, Microsoft, MTV Networks, Patton Boggs, Northrop Grumman, Pfizer Corporation, SAIC, Sallie Mae, USA Today, Washington Gas, and Washington Metropolitan Airport Authority.
Rebecca’s pioneering approach to women and recent research in leadership was featured on National Public Radio and showcased on a two-hour telecast on PBS to over 20,000 executives around the United States. She has been featured in publications such as Leader to Leader, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, USA Today, Washington Business Journal, Fortune Magazine, Fast Company, Pink Magazine, American Executive Magazine, Entrepreneur Magazine, American Management Association, Computer World and Professional Woman’s Magazine.
Rebecca is the author of a new book published in the Fall of 2007, It’s Not A Glass Ceiling, It’s A Sticky Floor (McGraw-Hill). Illustrating her unconventional approach towards women in leadership, the book draws upon SHAMBAUGH’s leadership programs for women and the thousands of speaking engagements and other educational events Rebecca has given around the nation for the past 15 years which focus on how women can get unstuck, empowered, move up, and prosper in their careers.
Rebecca is a member of the National Press Club and currently serves on the Boards of Visitors for both Marymount University and George Mason University. She also serves on the advisory boards of several early-stage companies. She has served in prior Chairperson roles for the Northern Virginia Technology Council’s Human Resource Advisory Board and the Board of Trade’s Leadership and Retention Board. Rebecca holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Industrial Relations from Purdue University and a Master of Arts Degree in Organizational Development from Marymount University.
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