Sharon Keys Seal, PCC, Executive Coach

Sharon Keys Seal is an executive coach and facilitator whose belief is that within each of us is more than we imagine. Her mission is to recognize, encourage, and strengthen her clients’ gifts and greatness. She is skilled at helping clients see themselves and their work in powerful new ways, while illuminating potential areas for enhanced performance and guiding professional development.

Ms. Seal’s mission is to serve as a catalyst for positive, proactive change in action-oriented individuals and groups who want to do and be their best. Her clients, with whom she forms long-term collaborative partnerships, are open to fresh perspectives and ideas, and desire to take their career to the next level while integrating their values and vision. Ms. Seal possesses an innate ability to establish trust and rapport, which is the foundation for her work in executive coaching, organizational assessment, team building, and leadership development.

A combination of excellent interpersonal skills and insightful understanding of workplace challenges enables Ms. Seal to work with professionals in a wide variety of industries. Her client base includes corporate executives, small business owners, scientists, managers, consultants, and executive directors of non-profits.

In addition to her coaching practice, Ms. Seal is a professionally trained facilitator, skilled at guiding group processes in meetings and retreats. She is noted for her energetic and insightful approach in seminars and workshops on a variety of topics, custom designed to give a new perspective and focus to those in the workplace.

Ms. Seal’s background includes management positions in both the corporate and non-profit arenas. She was Director of Operations for Grace Fellowship Church, where she was responsible for budget decisions, managed a 52,000 square-foot facility, and directed the personnel functions for a staff of 24 people. She acquired additional small business experience during her tenure as Business Manager for an advertising and public relations agency and on the marketing team of a management consulting firm. Ms. Seal was also a successful real estate agent who, in her first full year in the industry, was top salesperson in her office of over sixty agents.

As founder and host for three years of the Maryland Chapter of the International Coach Federation, Ms. Seal works to promote the professional community of coaches in Maryland. Ms. Seal has served as a contributing expert columnist for Entrepreneur Magazine's on-line publication Entrepreneur.com, and wrote a monthly business column for the Baltimore publication The Urbanite Magazine for over five years. She is a member and former president of Resource Link; is a member and former Club President of Toastmasters; is Co-Chair of The B'MORE Fund; and serves on the Johns Hopkins Breast Cancer Survivor Volunteer Team.