Dr. Shauna T. Sobers is a leadership facilitator, coach, resilience researcher, and dance instructor.
With over 20 years of experience, she helps supervisors and team leaders get to know themselves as leaders, then learn to understand, motivate, and develop each team member, so they can create workplaces where people thrive.
Known for her thoughtful presence and practical approach, her facilitation and coaching is supportive, action-oriented, and grounded in real-world tools.
Dr. Sobers is also an author, TEDx speaker, and the host of the Living the Resilience Tree Podcast.
Great leaders are developed by
how well they learn to follow.
We celebrate leading and overlook following; but the two are one skill, taking turns.
In partner dance, the follow isn’t passive; it’s precise, responsive, and demanding, and the dance falls apart without it.
The same is true on every team. Dr. Sobers helps leaders master both halves of the exchange.
Signature Frameworks
The Resilience Tree™
Resilience reframed from a solo act of endurance into an ecosystem you tend (Roots, Branches, Fruit, and Ecosystem), in ratio to your real risk factors.
Leaders build resilience they can sustain, not just survive.
The Dance of Leadership™
Leadership taught through real partnered dance. Trust, communication, and followership stop being slides and become something a team feels in their bodies.
These lessons leaders don’t forget at the door.
CAREfrontation™
Hard conversations held with care, not avoidance, with an intercultural-fluency layer that sets it apart.
Leaders learn to communicate what matters across cultural differences before it festers.
*Delivered through trained, research-based methods: Dr. Sobers is a Gallup-Certified CliftonStrengths® Coach and Qualified Administrator of the Intercultural Development Inventory® and Intercultural Conflict Styles®
Two Ways to Work with Dr. Sobers
🎤 WORKSHOPS & SPEAKING
Leadership Experiences That Move People
Bring a framework to your team as an interactive workshop, a multi-session series, or a keynote.
Built to stick, which is why organizations rebook.
🌱 COACHING & CONSULTING
Personalized Support for Intentional Growth
Go deeper, one-on-one or with your leaders with strengths-based coaching grounded in the Resilience Tree.
For those done proving and ready to sustain.
The Author in the Work
Dr. Sobers’ frameworks don’t stay in the boardroom, they take root on the page. As a published author and the founder of Palm & Ink Press, she writes the same resilience principles she teaches into stories readers can hold onto.
Her work spans both grown readers and the youngest ones: The Resilience Tree: A Model for Women Leaders of Color and Those Who Support Them brings her research to the leaders she serves, while The Resilience Tree™ a series of children’s books that begins with Ruby’s Wonderful Roots and plants those same lessons early.
Rooted in stories. Inked for impact.
Why Dr. Sobers Gets Rebooked
The real proof isn’t that Dr. Sobers gets hired; it’s that they keep bringing her back.
“I highly recommend Dr. Sobers for CliftonStrengths team development. She explained the strengths in ways that went beyond the report and helped our team understand how to better use each person’s talents to work more effectively together.
Months after our retreat, we still keep our strengths name cards on our desks, which continue to spark conversations across the department.
Dr. Sobers is incredibly personable and creates a space where people feel comfortable reflecting on their strengths and supporting one another.“
“Every time Dr. Sobers has given a talk to our teams at Owlchemy I have felt like I’ve learned something new.
Her lessons on diverse communication styles helped broaden my perspective and approach to working with others and approaching problem-solving.
Dr. Sobers brings a really bright energy to the room and creates a space that feels comfortable and supportive which I really appreciate.”
“Dr. Sobers is a returning speaker to the Emboldly Fellowship.
Her Managing Imposter Syndrome & Building Your Resilience Tree session is among the most highly rated in the fellowship year-over-year…
She brings energy, passion, and indispensable knowledge to all of her speaking engagements.”
