About Me
At Shira Baron Coaching, I specialize in using neuroscience backed strategies to help my clients get clear on their professional trajectory and make an action plan to achieve it. Together, we optimize and utilize their unique skillsets and value in their career search, current role, or career transition. We work together to integrate clarity, confidence, and development in any aspect of a career path where it is missing.
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I am so happy you are here and ready to start strategizing for what is next.
I have been in your shoes...
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As a former civil rights lawyer, I spent a decade counseling clients and coaching them through some of the most challenging points in their lives, but I hit a wall in my legal career. I chose to become a lawyer in my early twenties, but as my career progressed, my life changed shape as well. In my mid-thirties I found myself stressed out and overwhelmed, trying to live fully in my personal life, while deeply immersed in a career that did not feel right for me and I had no clue what to do next. I felt completely lost.​
Then I found a coach...
Through working with my career coach, I found my way here. It did not happen overnight. It took a lot of patience and work. BUT she did help me completely shift my perspective on what a job should look and feel like. She helped me use my values and career goals as a lens to see a new career path that could be rewarding, fulfilling, and energizing. Ultimately, I realized I wanted to be a coach because it aligned with both the skillset that I loved utilizing and my life. Coaching was the career I had been searching for, but it had never occurred to me until I worked with a coach myself.
And now...
I am very excited to work with you and help you achieve your own version of the career satisfaction, balance, and fulfillment I have found.
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And if you are part of an organization or business looking for some coaching support...
My fifteen years of experience of work in non-profit organizations and government has given me a deep understanding of the systems, structures, and supports necessary to create healthy work environments. I have coached business owners, nonprofit executives, startup founders, school leadership teams, and community leaders. My coaching is geared towards ensuring that your team, from the top down, has the insight and vision to create the ideal culture and work-space.
A little more about me...
I am originally from St. Louis, spent many years in New York City, and moved to Chicago in 2019. I am a Certified Professional Co-Active Institute Coach. I have a Juris Doctorate from Fordham Law School and a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology from University of Michigan. I have three little kids and love all things outside, including: eating good food, walking, hiking, horseback riding, and traveling. I am an avid reader and TV watcher and am newish to hot yoga.
Whether you want to find a new job, grow within your current job, or figure out your next steps as a leader, we will work together to find you:
Clarity around your professional goals
Actionable strategies that feel doable
Accountability structure that works
A pathway to career growth and development
Balance in your work and personal life​
What It's All About
Shira Baron Coaching specializes in career and leadership development, using neuroscience-backed strategies to foster sustainable growth and fulfillment at all career stages. Our mission is to help individuals and groups achieve clarity and fulfillment in their professional lives.
The inception of Shira Baron Coaching began when Shira, the founder, asked herself a pivotal question: "Do I want to work in my current profession forever?" This query led her to hire a career coach, ultimately leaving her career as a public interest attorney. Shira became a certified Co-Active Coach and launched Shira Baron Coaching.
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Shira quickly realized that many of her peers grappled with similar questions about their careers: "Do I want to stay in my current role?" "Do I want to lead my team this way?" "What do I truly want to achieve?" Recognizing this widespread need for clarity, Shira combined her legal background with her passion for cognitive and positive psychology to create a unique approach to career and leadership coaching.
Shira Baron Coaching empowers clients in both one-on-one sessions and group coaching to gain crystal-clear insight into their career aspirations and barriers. Shira works with clients to develop actionable, methodical plans to achieve their goals, ensuring a structured and manageable path to success and effective leadership.
Our services cater to a diverse clientele, including executives, business founders, lawyers, schools, nonprofit leaders, community leaders, and TV personalities. Shira is especially passionate about leveraging her experience in the nonprofit and government sectors to provide leadership and group coaching within organizations. She is dedicated to supporting and nurturing public interest leaders and employees who tirelessly serve their communities nationwide.
Shira Baron Coaching is committed to providing excellent coaching to all of her clients, ensuring that they have the tools and support to make impactful career and leadership transformations.