SUSTAINABLE SUCCESS - Key Persons


Beth Shapiro

Job Titles:
  • Founder and Principal of Sustainable Success, Beth Shapiro
Founder and principal of Sustainable Success, Beth Shapiro specializes in improving performance and creating sustainable change for leaders, teams, and organizations. Her work focuses on building capacity to create and maintain strong, strategic, effective relationships. Beth holds a Master in Public Administration from Harvard's Kennedy School and is a Certified Professional and Relationship Systems Coach (PCC, ORSC). Her background includes 20+ years of leadership in both the private and non-profit sectors. She has provided coaching and training in a variety of settings including federal and state government, higher education, nonprofits, and a number of private sector industries. Beth played a leading role in the U.S. Transportation Security Administration's Security Evolution trainings, featured on 60 Minutes and MSNBC.com. The Department of Homeland Security included this transformational TSA program - which trained more than 50,000 employees over the course of 10 months - among their top 10 successes for 2008. Beth serves on the faculty of the Center for Right Relationship (CRR Global), served on the faculty of the prestigious Coaches Training Institute (CTI) and also trains, mentors, and supervises candidates for a number of professional coaching and consulting certifications.

Paul Sherman

Described by Forbes Magazine as a "miraclemaker-or, more precisely a miracle medium," Paul Sherman came to coaching after more than a decade as an organizational effectiveness and training consultant. He has worked with over 50 major corporations and government agencies worldwide. Paul came to coaching after more than a decade as an organizational effectiveness and training consultant. His talent lies in his ability to facilitate individuals, teams and organizations to question business as usual and take action to move forward. As a founding member of Cambridge Technology Partners, a consulting company that grew to nearly a billion dollars in revenue in only seven years, Paul held key leadership positions in marketing, service delivery and training and development. Paul co-founded Team Coaching International (TCI), a coaching company with trained facilitators in more than 20 countries worldwide. Previously, he served as Vice President of the Corporate Business Division for The Coaches Training Institute and as a senior consultant for tompeters! Company. A summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard University, Paul holds a Bachelor of Arts in psychology and a Masters in Human Resources Education from Boston University. Paul's clients characterize his coaching style as extremely straightforward, enthusiastic, feedback-intensive, empathetic, intuitive, authentic, pragmatic, and business-focused. Paul's clients have included: Microsoft Corporation, Procter and Gamble, American Airlines, Hewlett Packard, Bank of America, and multiple Blue Cross Blue Shield plans.