Shaunna has spent more than 30 years working at the intersection of leadership, organizational culture, talent development, and human behavior; long enough to know that most workplaces are still trying to operate with leadership models built for a different era.

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As co-founder of Redwood Leader and creator of the ECOsystem Leadership Framework, Shaunna helps organizations rethink how leadership actually works in modern environments: not through hierarchy and control, but through trust, adaptability, connection, and resilient human systems.

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Her work is grounded in a simple belief: Healthy organizations behave more like ecosystems than machines.

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Over the course of her career, Shaunna has led people and culture initiatives across industries including technology, healthcare, finance, nonprofit, and professional services. She has worked with organizations navigating growth, disruption, burnout, leadership transitions, and the increasing complexity of modern work.

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Again and again, she saw the same pattern: Organizations were asking people to operate like machines while wondering why culture, engagement, and trust were breaking down. That tension became the foundation for Redwood Leader.

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Shaunna’s approach blends organizational strategy, leadership development, neuroscience, and ecosystem thinking into practical tools that help leaders build stronger, healthier, more adaptive teams. Her work focuses on creating environments where people can thrive under pressure without losing connection, humanity, or purpose along the way.

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She is known for bringing a rare combination of:

• strategic clarity,

• grounded leadership insight,

• emotional intelligence,

• and the willingness to challenge outdated leadership assumptions that no longer serve modern organizations.

 

Whether facilitating executive workshops, speaking on leadership transformation, coaching teams through change, or developing future-focused learning experiences, Shaunna brings a perspective that feels less like corporate theory and more like real-world leadership for the ecosystem era.

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Her inspiration for the Redwood Leader ECOsystem Framework came while walking among California’s old-growth redwoods; living systems that survive not because they stand alone, but because they grow through interconnected root systems, adaptability, and collective resilience. 

 

That philosophy now shapes everything Redwood Leader teaches, because the organizations that will thrive in the future will not be the ones that push people the hardest. They’ll be the ones that build the healthiest ecosystems, where trust runs deep, people stay connected under pressure, and growth is strong enough to survive the storm.

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That’s the work Shaunna is committed to building. Not better corporate theater. Better human systems. Because the future of leadership will not be built through control. It will be built through connection.