Amy RileyShoop Consulting Group, Inc., Chicago, IL

Facilitator, Coach, Curriculum Developer

Amy is passionate about working with leaders to simultaneously achieve organizational objectives, leverage the leaders’ strengths and achieve their personal aspirations. Amy is pragmatic, action-oriented, and listens intently to provide customised solutions that fit the people and the situation.

With 20+ years of experience coaching and developing leaders at all levels, Amy enables them to clarify and fully step into their unique leadership style and achieve extraordinary results.

Recent client engagements include:

• Facilitated a global Experienced Leader Program where leaders focused on leadership at self, team, and system levels. Program participants applied all learning to a Bold Challenge project, which annually results in millions of dollars saved and new opportunities realized.
• Coached high potential senior leaders at the Director and Executive Vice President level in a year-long engagement to strategically leverage strengths and develop leadership skills and emotional intelligence when needed.
• Supported the design and execution of a year-long global Emerging Leaders Program.

Coached individual emerging leaders and designed and facilitated monthly Learning Groups. This year, what was previous a hybrid model of in-person and virtual learning, has been conducted entirely virtually with post-kick off and mid-program evaluation processes showing no drop in satisfaction or results.

Amy has extensive virtual delivery facilitation experience in the Cisco Webex and Zoom platforms. She has also worked with clients in associations, consulting, financial services, food, manufacturing, non-profit, pharmaceutical, professional services, retail and technology industries.

Amy earned a Masters of Science in Training and Development (MSTD), with an emphasis on Organization Development (OD), from Loyola University in Chicago and a Bachelor’s degree in International Business from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.

Beyond her extensive education, Amy is a graduate of the American Society of Training and Development (ASTD) Human Resource Development (HRD) Institute. She is a certified Tiara International Coach and a Certified Professional Behaviour Analyst (CPBA). She is also certified in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI).