Growth in Motion. Leadership in Practice.
Shauna T. Sobers (STS) Leadership Development helps people grow into everything they already are; and learn to lead, and follow, well.
We work with leaders and teams navigating transition, through facilitation, coaching, and practical tools that make complex ideas accessible.
Our belief is simple: everyone has the potential to lead and everyone already has within them what they need. They may just need help articulating it and putting it into practice.
Our Why
To affirm and develop transferable skills and competencies that help people articulate their current and future potential.
Everything at STS Leadership Development grows from that purpose. Whether in a keynote, a coaching relationship, or a workshop, the aim is the same: to empower leaders to own the talents they already carry, and put them to work toward their goals.
Our Logo
Our logo holds two images at once.
First, it is a tree (leaves rising, trunk rooted),
Growth is the heart of our work, and the tree echoes the Resilience Tree™ framework at the center of it: the idea that potential is cultivated, not installed.
Then, at the center, there are two forms intertwined. They represent two partners, mid-motion, held in frame. That is the dance of leadership.
Because leadership, like partnered dance, is never solo. Someone leads, someone follows, and the roles shift, as they always do.
Following is not the absence of leadership; it is a form of it.
The best movement, on the dance floor and in any team, comes from two people responding to each other with trust, timing, and grace.
Growth and grounding. Leading and following.
Two forces, moving as one.
What We Do
STS Leadership Development works across connected streams:
- Facilitation – workshops, retreats, panels, discussions, and keynotes that turn ideas into shared practice.
- Coaching – support for teams, supervisors, and individual leaders navigating change, growth, and transition.
- Practical Tools – strategies, analogies, and resources that make complex ideas practical and accessible.
What ties the work together is a throughline of growth: encouraging leaders to invest in their roots and rise toward their goals.
Our Frameworks
Leadership develops best when people understand themselves, navigate complexity with resilience, and communicate well across differences. Three signature frameworks that are reflective, relational, and embodied are what inform all of our facilitation, coaching, and scholarship contributions.
The Resilience Tree™ – how leaders cultivate endurance and adaptability through challenge and change. Using the metaphor of a tree, it names the roots, branches, fruit, and ecosystem that let leaders stay grounded while they grow.
The Dance of Leadership™ – how the principles of partnered dance become practical leadership skills. Through invitation, connection, and improvisation, leaders learn that leading and following are not opposites, but two halves of the same conversation in motion.
CAREfrontation™ – how to hold hard conversations with care instead of avoidance. Built on an intercultural-fluency layer, it teaches leaders to be both honest and attuned, so hard things get named across differences without blame.
Running through all three is an intercultural lens: how directly we speak, how we show or restrain emotion, what “respectful” even sounds like. These are shaped by culture, upbringing, and lived experience.
STS Leadership Development teaches leaders to communicate across those differences, not over them.
What We Value
- Professional Development. Growth is intentional, and everyone deserves the opportunity and support to reach for their potential.
- Professionalism. We strive to produce the best quality work we can within our given circumstances. We hold our standards and our integrity steady whether we are leading or following.
- Perspectives. We stay open to viewpoints shaped by different cultures and experiences, recognize our biases when they are named, and check our assumptions before acting on them.
- Partnerships. We stay adaptable to different styles, and committed to learning from everyone, because whatever the role, the higher impact work is often co-created.
Our Founder
STS Leadership Development was founded by Dr. Shauna T. Sobers, a leadership facilitator, coach, and author whose work centers on resilience, growth, intercultural understanding, and helping people navigate transition.
Originally from Barbados and now based in Texas, Dr. Sobers created STS to bring the lessons from her resilience research, strengths coaching, and leadership development work to leaders and teams of every kind.
She is the creator of the Resilience Tree™, Dance of Leadership™, and CAREfrontation™ frameworks, a TEDx speaker, and a scholar-practitioner whose work makes complex ideas practical and accessible.
Work With Us
For facilitation, coaching, keynotes, or leadership resources, contact us at lead@shaunatsobers.com.
STS Leadership Development is a division of shaunatsobers, LLC.
