“There is only one way to look at things until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes.”

- Pablo Picasso

WHO IS SHELLY ELLIOTT?

With broad experience working for Fortune 100 public companies and private industry in ascending leadership roles, Shelly brings perspective, insights, and comprehensive approaches to the table. With a majority of her experience in operations and supply chain management, Shelly has led global businesses generating nearly $800M in revenue and directly managed teams as large as 650 employees, deploying human capital strategies for the attraction, retention, development, and succession of the workforce. Additionally, Shelly has led enterprise-wide business transformation to drive profitability, dissecting levers, creating comprehensive change management plans, and implementing action and stewardship processes. She does not settle for the status quo and drives positive change that creates opportunities and rewards for people across the organization.

Growing up a basketball coach’s daughter, the lessons sports taught Shelly have shaped her perspectives on life, leadership, teamwork, business, competition, women’s and girls’ representation, and many other issues. Shelly is incredibly passionate about girls’ access to STEM education and a champion for women’s equality and representation in leadership. Her niche leadership coaching and career advising focuses on mid-senior and newly appointed execute women leaders.

Shelly resides in Annapolis, Maryland, with her husband Scott, toddler daughter Liberty, and dog Biscuit. A lifelong learner, Shelly enjoys studying business cases and leadership, traveling to new places, meeting new people, and trying new foods. She is a board member for the United Way of Central Maryland, Anne Arundel County, and previously served on the University of Notre Dame Engineering Advisory Council.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

  • “ Shelly is a natural leader, with the ability to drive a team around an objective, engaging the team in solutions and the means to achieve their goals. ”

  • “ Shelly emphasizes doing things the right way, and takes her words and her commitments seriously as demonstrated by her follow-through, and her delivery of the results she promises. ”

  • “ Shelly is a great role model for direct reports and also younger employers learning the social system and the means to develop and progress in their own careers. ”

  • “ I watched Shelly host a panel on women in the workplace and strategies for handling difficult situations. She had practical, actionable insights to share that are top of mind for many women at work. ”

  • “ Shelly is in that (what seems to be an all-to-small sometimes) Venn-diagram center overlap of *people-who-really-care* and *leaders-who-get-shit-done*. She brings positive problem-focused energy, technical competence, and integrity that rallies the teams around her to strive for excellence and manage the choppy waters of change. ”

Let’s discuss how I can help you.

INTENT. INSIGHT. IGNITE.