Jean Houston Shore, CPA, MBA, CSP, works with organizations who want their people to work together better and with people who want to achieve more in life. As a consultant, speaker and author, Jean specializes in helping organizations translate their visions and values into actions that produce results.
Whether she’s giving a keynote on managing change, conducting skills training for managers or facilitating an off site leadership retreat, Jean’s combination of enthusiasm and expertise makes the experience fun. Through guiding participants to develop leadership skills, discover personal values or create career management strategies, Jean challenges achievers in many industries to new levels of skill and inspiration. Jean’s clients repeatedly say that her ability to isolate core issues and her willingness to ask the “tough” questions helps them to achieve measurable improvements quickly.
Creator of five comprehensive management development programs, Jean’s work on leadership, values clarification and change management has been featured in three books, Reach for the Stars, Where There’s Change, There’s Opportunity, and Irresistible Leadership. A summa cum laude graduate of Mercer University, Jean is a member of the National Speakers Association, the Georgia Speakers Association, the American Institute of CPAs, and the American Society for Quality. Jean works with a diverse base of clients including corporations such as AT&T, Bellsouth, CIBA Vision and WORLDSPAN and with associations and non-profits like 4-H, Girl and Boy Scouts of America and Special Olympics. She served on the Board of Examiners for the Georgia Oglethorpe Award Process (Georgia’s highest business award) and was named by the Virginia Society of CPAs as Discussion Leader of the Year. Most recently, Jean completed her MBA at Baylor University where she obtained a perfect 4.0 average. She is also one less than 500 Certified Speaking Professionals in the world, the highest earned designation of the National Speakers Association. Other awards include the President’s Leadership Award from the Georgia Speakers Association (2000) and the Medal of Excellence from Fort Benning, GA.(1999)
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