Sharon Lebovitz Richmond
Sharon Lebovitz Richmond helps executives envision and build successful, healthy companies fueled by cultures of accountability and mutual respect. She brings simple, practical frameworks to help clients surface what they, their teams, and their organizations must do to win: to have better conversations, make better decisions, and get better results.
Client companies in technology, healthcare, education, retail, and biopharma have benefited from Sharon’s extensive experience helping clarify intentions and priorities, energize teams and organizations, and ensure effective, achievable action plans. Her client list includes AMD, Apple, Cisco, Google, VMware, Wells Fargo, Woven-Toyota, Yahoo! Aikon, CloudLinux, Clover, Foodics, Hover, IMVU, and Jupiter Intel, Blue Shield, East Bay Medical Group Intuitive Surgical, Oregon Health Sciences University, Roche/Genentech, and Stanford Healthcare Emeritus, FlexSchool, Masterclass, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford School of Medicine, and USF.
Sharon coaches individual executives and their teams, facilitates culture building, as well as mission, vision, and values development, and guides strategic planning processes. She boosts EQ on executive teams, coaches large-scale transformations, and advises executives on scaling growth. Clients appreciate Sharon’s ability to confidentially challenge and support them as needed, as well as the new perspectives she offers on nagging issues and situations. She is committed to curious inquiry, truth-telling, and life-long learning, and promotes inclusive, collaborative approaches to planned organizational change, which results in clearer goals, well-aligned stakeholders, and straightforward implementation plans.
She holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where she has also taught leadership, designed courses, and facilitated the extremely popular Interpersonal Dynamics course for more than 20 years. She collaborated with Stanford professors Dr. Jeffrey Pfeffer to bring experiential learning into his famous Paths to Power course and Dr. Charles O’Reilly in several leadership programs. Sharon is the host of the podcast To Lead Is Human, which has reached more than 50,000 listeners since its launch in November 2022. She is the author of Introduction to Myers-Briggs Type and Leadership. and has been an MBTI® Master Practitioner for more than 20 years. She serves as an alumni co-chair for the Modern Elder Academy and has previously served on the boards of Stanford Women on Boards and GSB Alumni Consulting Teams