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THE DELANEY DUKE GROUP
Provoke learning. Simplify change.

Why Sheila?

About Sheila:
Principal of Sheila Delaney Duke Performance Consulting

It is my purpose to help you turn messy situations into outrageous opportunities for success. My clients thrive in crisis, and manage conflict with grace, setting themselves apart where others falter. They know degree of exhaustion is NOT directly proportional to success.

And because of them, I love what I do!

So, what is Sheila all about, anyway?

I've worked with hundreds of professionals just like you, in all sorts of venues. And I've been there. I bring to my practice a whole lot of professional experience: I have degrees in both business and law. I thrilled clients when I worked in financial services, excelled in the practice of corporate financial services law with a leading multi-national firm, and co-led a national HIV/AIDS Awareness and Fund raising campaign to unprecedented success for a global non-profit.

And I've have had fun doing it all.

"...Months later, we are navigating difficult conversations better than ever, challenging our assumptions, and we continue to use tools and language you taught us to navigate daily stress and conflict. Thank you."

-Lillian Thogersen, CEO, World Association of Children and Parents

An executive advocate was delighted to see how a group event unfolded:

"I have seen [Sheila] powerfully engage groups again and again...she encourages us to tap into our own experience as a source of learning...she enhances what she hears so everyone develops a sense of their own potential. People always leave impacted and equipped with tools they can apply immediately..."

- Executive-level Advocate

I've worked 100 hour weeks practicing law. And 20 hour days, days in a row, on the road, managing campaign events. I've missed birthdays. I've lost friends. I've bragged about how little sleep I can manage on, and how hard working that must make me. I've played 'tough' and secretly dared people to get in my way. I've pushed myself to the brink of serious illness and resisted the love and support of people who tried to get me to do it another way.

I learned a lot in a short amount of time, and I won't do it again.

Now, I learn something (sometimes a lot) from every single person I encounter. I have fun - and I still make things happen. I have a support network that many only dream of: a fabulous husband who believes in my best, beautiful daughters who bring magic into my everyday, brilliant business partners who get it, a community I serve and friends who nourish me over and over and over again. My life is grand, but not perfect, my work is deeply fulfilling and I feel like I could go and go and go...

But here's the thing: all the experience in the world is NOT what this is about.

It's about knowing how to support YOU in navigating the barriers YOU face daily.
It's about drawing something out of YOU, YOU didn't even know you had.
It's about supporting YOU, day in and day out, so I can work myself out of a job, leaving YOU equipped for everything work and life can throw at you.

And my clients tell me this is what I do best.

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