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Thriving people and teams driving exceptional performance.
With expertise in people leadership, organizational development and executive coaching, we offer you a robust approach to enable you to proactively address people and business opportunities.
Our clients are growth motivated, but humble people, They are both curious to discover their full potential and bold in trying new methods.
We guide leaders and teams to uncover their full potential, build new skill sets and find alignment on culture, which all together, yield tangible results. Our goal is to help you realize your utmost potential: thriving people and teams driving exceptional performance.
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Leadership.
Shirley Braun, Ph.D.
Founder & Managing Partner
An accomplished Coach and People and Organizational Development executive, Shirley Braun helps organizations, teams and individuals successfully scale up, learn, grow, and thrive.
With decades of experience scaling organizations, coaching, working with the C-suite, and building strategy, she blends her broad global business experience, servicing scaling organizations and Fortune 500 companies, with a direct, transformative, and caring, approach to coaching and consulting. She is passionate about helping her clients find their true needs, unleashing their potential, and accomplishing their goals. She loves to share with her clients the practical tools needed for scaling their impact and transforming their teams and organizations. Past clients have said that Shirley has a solid ability to build trusting and collaborative relationships, promote a high-performance mindset, and influence business results. She understands first-hand both the challenges and opportunities that come with leadership roles in various cultures ,championing adaptable organizational structures, experiences, and programs. By advocating for scalability and innovation, she invigorates organizations to effectively navigate evolving needs and seize emerging opportunities with agility and foresight.
Before founding Swift Insights, Shirley was a Chief People Officer in a number of technology companies that were scaling up and held executive HR and Organizational Development positions at Fortune 500 companies. Shirley holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology from California School of Professional Psychology, San Francisco; and an MA in Industrial and Social Psychology and a BA in Psychology, both from Bar Ilan University in Israel. Shirley is a published expert in the area of workplace inclusion and the underrepresentation of women: "Attitudes and company practices as predictors of managers’ intentions to hire, develop, and promote women in science, engineering, and technology professions Braun, Shirley; Turner, Rebecca A. Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research, Vol 66(2), Jun 2014, 93-117 (Link).
When she is not coaching, or consulting, she is an avid learner and loves to spend time with close friends and family traveling, cooking, and dancing.
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Our systems perspective takes a look at three levels: individual, teams, and the organization. Understanding all of these parts is critical for developing the right strategic approach.
With the results of a systems diagnostic, we create a comprehensive and customized solution.
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Industries served
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Digital entertainment
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Fintech
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Cloud infrastructure
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Data security
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Biotechnology
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Software
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Technology startups and growth companies
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