Carole Lyles Shaw

Carole Lyles Shaw, president of the Columbia Resource Group LLC, has been named the executive coach for the Executive MBA program at Loyola College in Maryland’s Sellinger School of Business and Management. In her newly created position, which begins Sept. 9, Shaw will consult with the program’s student teams on process awareness skills, self-assessment, conflict resolution, leadership, and facilitation. She will also serve as a liaison with faculty on these issues, and with program administrators on topics including team formation, leadership development, and change management. 

“Other business schools often take an individual approach to executive education,” said Ellen Hoadley, Ph.D., academic director of the Executive MBA program, who led the executive coach search. “Loyola chooses to educate its executive students within a cohort and in teams to master one of the most difficult aspects of leadership—team dynamics. Carole is the perfect candidate to provide expert consultation in this area.”

Shaw’s Columbia, Md.-based consulting firm provides leadership development, executive coaching, executive team retreat facilitation, large group retreat planning, and facilitation and training workshops on a range of topics. Her clients include World Bank, Deutsche Bank, Luminex Corporation, Social Security Administration, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, the U.S. Department of Commerce, Pearson, and other government and commercial clients.

Prior to launching her consulting firm, Shaw was a vice president in human resources for Citicorp and served in other human resource management roles for other private sector firms. She holds an MBA from Columbia University, a bachelor of arts in English from Morgan State University, and has pursued advanced graduate study in organizational behavior at George Washington University and in public policy at the University of Southern California. She is a member of the NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science and has been invited to speak on leadership, change management and emotional intelligence at many professional conferences.

The creation of Shaw’s position accompanies the launch of a new Executive MBA curriculum at the Sellinger School—one which emphasizes leadership development, executive coaching, and the strategic integration of concepts introduced throughout the 21-month program. The new Sellinger Executive MBA will include four increasingly challenging integrated projects: a team-based analysis of a single publicly traded firm; a team competitive analysis of a particular industry; a team analysis of opportunity within a specific industry; and an individual analysis of a current situation within the student’s company. This final component will be prepared and presented to the students’ employers. 

“We are excited that Loyola’s innovative spirit has led to the development of this role,” said Manette Frese, director of the Executive MBA program. “Carole is a well-respected expert in leadership development and executive training and an exceptional addition to our program leadership and the Loyola community.”

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