Amy Riley

Apr 14

UNITED STATES | Amy Riley ensures that her clients recognize and appreciate their inherent talents and learn what is most relevant from their life experiences. Guiding them through cycles of action and reflection, her clients think about what really matters to them, get in touch with their dreams and believe that they can design a life which inspires them by doing it their unique way.

Amy is a skilled professional in the disciplines of coaching, execution, planning, training, and facilitation in organizations. She has provided this expertise to organizations in a variety of industries including Albany Park Community Center, the American Hospital Association, the American Planning Association, BP/Amoco, Cisco Systems, Clearbrook, Deloitte, Hewitt Associates, Hendrickson International, Protected Tomorrows, Stepan Company, Tate & Lyle and TranzAct Technologies.

Amy earned a Bachelor’s Degree in International Business from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, and a Master’s Degree in Training and Development, with an emphasis in Organization Development, from Loyola University in Chicago. Along with her certification in the Lead True Model for True Leadership, Amy is certified as a DDI (Development Dimensions International) Facilitator, a facilitator for the Korn Ferry 360-degree feedback and development process, a Myers-Briggs Type Indicator practitioner, and as a Certified Professional Behavior Analyst (CPBA) – qualifying her to administer the DISC Personal Profile Tool.

Amy is the founder of Shoop Consulting Group, Inc. and The Courage of a Leader. She is working on her second book, The Courage of a Leader: How to Inspire, Engage and Get Extraordinary Results. After over 20 years of developing leaders at all levels Amy continues to be inspired the courageous ideas, actions and ways of being she witnesses from leaders. In her book she’ll share important leadership mindsets, frameworks and tools. Yet, most importantly, she’ll share real stories about how leaders inspire themselves and those around them, engage others and get extraordinary results.

Moreover, Amy is the host of The Courage of a Leader®. In this podcast, top leaders tell real stories about achieving extraordinary results and share practical advice and techniques you can immediately apply for your own success. This is where you will get inspired and take bold, courageous action.

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Enjoying ALL Your Communities

Tiara certified Career Coach, Amy Riley, offers strategies to help you to shift the ways you look at communities you did not actively choose to be a part of.

Engage People's Hearts

How do you connect with both the heads and the hearts of the those you lead? Tiara Certified Coach, Amy Riley, discusses the powerful impact of vulnerability.

Pillar 4: The Courage to Be Bold and Create the Extraordinary

How to be bold and create the extraordinary? Sounds like a big topic that would involve lots of methods and techniques. Yet there are 2 secrets to boldly creating extraordinary results.

Pillar 3: The Courage to Ask Others to Follow

Leaders need the commitment, the ideas, the passion and the work of others to make big ideas come to life. How do you get that kind of commitment from others? How do you get others fully engaged?

Pillar 2: The Courage to Say What Needs to Be Said

When it’s time to deliver a tough message, do you can feel like you’ve got to have a complex set of interpersonal skills mastered? If so, you’re not alone.

Pillar 1: The Courage to Be Authentically You

Our world, right now, needs leaders who know how to inspire, engage and get extraordinary results. As a leader, you’ve got opportunities, pressures, questions and complexities coming at you from all directions.

The Process of Setting Intentions

I know that it’s powerful to set intentions, to tune in with how I want to feel and what I want to accomplish.

Parenting from the heart is an expression of True Leadership

When we think about being leaders, we typically discuss leadership at work and in our careers. Yet we have the opportunity to demonstrate True Leadership in every area of our lives, including one of the most challenging and rewarding: parenting.