From Expert to Strategic Leader
Empowering leaders to develop leadership capabilities and amplify their strategic impact.
Strengthen Communication. Enhance Collaboration. Build High-Performing Teams.
Equipping leaders with the skills, tools and mindset to lead through change, empower their teams and drive meaningful business results.
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Leadership Development
Developing the essential skills to communicate effectively, empower teams, give and recieve feedback, delegate, manage accountability, collaborate and align priorities to strategic objectives.
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Leadership Team Coaching
Building cohesive, cross-functional leadership teams that cultivate trust, embrace healthy conflict, drive innovation, hold each other accountable, and achieve results aligned to shared strategic priorities.
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Executive Coaching
Empowering senior leaders and executives to elevate their leadership presence, inspire a shared vision, drive long-term strategy, and implement succession planning to develop the next generation of leaders and ensure long-term success.
“Being a leader, we often deprioritize ourselves and our professional development. When you have a coach like Carla, you know there is someone in your corner to keep you accountable for making progress.
If you want a coach who will help you grow and refine your thinking, and help you prioritize a roadmap to meeting your goals, you need Carla and Sharkey Coaching.
She helped me take steps toward my ultimate goal: elevating my game so I could seek an executive leadership position.
As a result of working with her, I’m happier - at work and in life.”
- Martin Belanger, Director Public Alerting, Pelmorex
Hi, I’m Carla.
Founder and CEO of Sharkey Coaching. With over 15 years of hands-on leadership experience as head of Project Management, I’ve led diverse, global teams through change. This has given me deeper insights into the unique challenges leaders face in fast-moving, cross-functional, and dynamic environments.
Early in my leadership journey, I thought my job was to turn my team into copies of me—after all, isn’t that why I was promoted? Because I was so great at what I did! I was convinced that if my team simply followed my way of doing things, we’d be unstoppable.
But instead of creating a high-performing team, I overwhelmed them and felt frustrated myself. I had to elevate my leadership skills and recognize how my style impacted my team’s engagement and effectiveness.
I realized that success wasn’t just about driving results—it was about creating an environment where others could thrive and contribute at their best.