About Us

Shannon Small

Professional Background
Shannon Small is an energetic leader who is passionate about the power of people and their ability to make a positive impact on business results. She is a skilled coach as well as an experienced manager and strategy consultant.  Shannon brings to her coaching and leadership development work not only the acumen of a seasoned business professional, but also the strength of a collegiate All-American athlete and the resilience of a Breast Cancer survivor.

Shannon works with individuals, teams and organizations in a variety of industries.  She has coached clients ranging from CEO’s and senior managers to students at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.  Her clients have included professionals at Xerox, IBM, Goldman Sachs, Mercer Management Consulting, Wachovia, Leap Frog, and SAP.  She is also an experienced speaker and workshop leader.

Shannon’s professional qualifications include an MBA from Yale School of Management, a Bachelor of Science degree from Northwestern University, and professional coaching training through Coaches Training Institute (CTI) and New Ventures West. She is a certified Integral Coach and qualified to administer the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI).

Personal Interests
Shannon is a third-generation Southern Californian who left for college and needed to test out five other cities before choosing to build a life in San Francisco. Committed to empowering members of her communities, Shannon currently sits on the Alumni Board of the Yale School of Management Alumni Board as well as the Association of Women MBAs of the Bay Area.  She is a devoted community volunteer and avid world traveler. She is also inspired to empower women frequently by her two young nieces.

Christy Consler

Professional Background
Christy Consler is the Founder and President of Consler Coaching & Consulting, Inc., an executive coaching and organizational consulting firm based in San Francisco , as well as the creator of the Professional Women's Dream Team leadership program for high potential women. Christy brings over 15 years of experience in marketing strategy in consumer packaged goods, banking, and technology to her business. She has worked with business leaders and teams in a variety of organizational settings, from Fortune 500 firms to entrepreneurial startups, including American Express, eBay, Gap, Lucasfilm, SAP, Synopsys, Williams-Sonoma, and many others.

Christy's most recent corporate post was as a Marketing Solutions Director for Carlson Marketing Group, where she headed up the Employee Marketing and Change Management Practice on the west coast. She began her career in financial services at Chemical Bank (now JPMorgan Chase), where she was an Assistant Vice President in the Corporate Lending group. Christy also worked in brand management at General Mills in the flagship Cheerios division, as well as in their New Ventures division, where she worked with a cross-functional team to develop comprehensive strategies to create new business platforms and enter new growth markets.

A graduate of the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania , Christy earned an MBA in Marketing and Strategic Management. She earned a B.S. degree from Cornell University and received her coaching training from Coach University.

Personal Interests
Though she grew up in a very small town in upstate New York, Christy was bitten by the adventure bug early in her life. At 17, she lived in Austria for a year as an exchange student, learning German, traveling the continent, and developing a fascination with and appreciation for different cultures and ways of viewing the world. This experience was the foundation for her interest in coaching: by seeing the many ways that people create their personal realities and professional lives, it established her firm belief that everyone has a unique path to choose that suits their highest and best purpose. Christy's subsequent adventures have included Africa , Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand, and Central America . She now makes her home in San Francisco with her husband and their menagerie of pets.

Kerrie Halmi

Professional Background
Kerrie Halmi started Halmi Performance Consulting in 2001, specializing in increasing an organization's success through coaching and facilitation of people management skills. Kerrie has over fifteen years of experience in the Human Resources field, with extensive experience in coaching, training and team facilitation. Client companies include Wells Fargo, Kaiser Permanente, NUMMI, John Muir Medical Center, Camico Insurance, the City of Oakland, eBay and PacifiCare.

Around 2003, Kerrie realized that she wanted to focus more on increasing women's success in business for various reasons--this has always been a passion of hers; she witnessed that women still experience unique obstacles and situations in business and most importantly, her first daughter joined their family. She started speaking on how women can succeed in business at venues ranging from the University of Michigan to NCHRA (Northern California Human Resources Association) to local Rotary venues.

Kerrie received her MBA from the University of Michigan with an emphasis on Human Resources and her BS in Industrial Psychology from the University of Illinois. She is certified in coaching with Corporate Coach University International (CCUI) and is certified in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). She is a member of the National Speakers Association (NSA). Kerrie served as Vice President of the Board of Directors of W.O.M.A.N., Inc., a non-profit dedicated to stopping violence against women.

Personal Interests
Kerrie grew up in the Midwest (Iowa City), but was encouraged to “try out” California by a friend from Michigan Business School. In 1993, she moved here and worked in Human Resources at a General Mills manufacturing facility in Lodi, California. A couple of years later, she moved to the Bay Area and is here to stay. She lives in Oakland with her husband, two daughters and dog.