Sonya Shelton founded Being Present to Win to help managers and executives increase their leadership effectiveness so they can boost their professional and business results. Being Present to Win offers workshops and coaching programs designed to develop leadership capability from the inside out.
Sonya designed the programs at Being Present to Win based on her more than 20 years experience as a leader in a variety of companies and industries, including the high-paced fields of publishing, advertising, and entertainment.
In addition, Sonya has a background in communications, organization development, and change management, which adds a multidimensional approach to the leadership programs at Being Present to Win. This customizable approach includes leadership development from the perspective of the self, interpersonal, team, and organization. Sonya has helped her Fortune 500 clients create strategies to manage organizational change through mergers and acquisitions, business transformation, workforce reduction, and large-scale system implementations.
Sonya has a Masters of Science in Organization Development from Pepperdine University and has studied Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. She has also done research on the effectiveness of mindfulness meditation on employee attitudes during organizational change and is currently working on a research project on the effects of mindfulness on creativity in partnership with Pepperdine University.
