Sheryl Spanier - Biography

Sheryl Spanier has been assisting executives to enter, excel in and exit organizations for over twenty years. Her combination of quick insight, energy, nurturing and pragmatism has enabled those with whom she consults to develop strategies designed to implement successful personal and professional change. Sheryl's unique experience spans business development, proposals, project planning and management, platform delivery, and individual service. Her practice focuses on senior level career management, leadership strategy, team engagement, and executive coaching.

Sheryl has been instrumental in building organizational consulting, executive coaching and career management/transition practices at four premier human capital services firms serving Fortune 1000 companies. She has worked with individual executives and their staffs to develop and deliver programs for leadership strategies, team engagement, career management, the psychology of success, crisis intervention, managing change, assessment, coaching techniques and performance. In addition, she has launched and executed marketing and sales initiatives that have significantly expanded brand recognition and business results. Sheryl's professional experience also includes executive search, public sector programs (including the Reagan/Bush transition team and equalization of opportunity programs) and academia.

Often quoted in the media (The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Psychology Today, Newsday, and National Business Employment Weekly), Sheryl is the co-author of three Executive Career Guides www.notime4theories.com, has published numerous articles and has appeared on television, radio (NBC, CNBC, and ABC). She is a founding member of the Association of Career Professionals International, and is certified as a Fellow by the Institute of Career Certification International, is a member of the Financial Women's Association, New York Human Resources Planning Society, The National Career Development Association and the YAI Business Advisory Council. Sheryl has an undergraduate degree in English from Hunter College, is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and holds a Masters in Counseling obtained at Columbia and LIU. She and her husband live in New York City and have two adult sons.