Dr. Linda Sharkey is a trusted transformational expert, author, speaker, and global leadership development coach.
Her most recent book, The Future-Proof Workplace, Six Strategies to Accelerate Talent Development, Reshape Your Culture, and Proceed with Purpose, highlights the changes already taking place around us: the transition from skills to knowledge, the neuroscience approach to leadership and motivation, and galloping technical advances. Command-and-control leadership won’t take businesses into the new global environment and future-proofing your workplace may require a whole system change.
On her weekly radio show, Future-Proof Workplace, Dr. Sharkey and co-host Morag Barrett share first hand experiences, latest research and exceptional guest insights to help future-proof careers and companies. Listeners agree that their show is an essential guide to thriving in turbulence and is packed with compelling real-world cases on how to remain competitive in these unprecedented times. Archived shows are on iHeartRadio.
Through her programs and no-nonsense approach, Dr. Sharkey helps create high-potential leaders and shapes company culture. Linda has deep experience working with Fortune 50 companies and held senior human resource executive positions at Hewlett-Packard and at GE Capital. As Senior HR Executive with GE, Dr. Sharkey established a leadership development effort that became part of the world-renowned Crotonville offerings. This program was named best practice by CEO Jack Welch.
Her co-authored book, Winning with Transglobal Leadership, was named one of the top 30 best business books for 2013.
Dr. Sharkey is a founding member of the Marshall Goldsmith Group, and an inspiring keynote speaker at many global events, including the Global HR Academy with the Conference Board and the World Human Resources Development Conference, where she was honored with the “Super Women Achievement Award.”
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Renowned leadership coach and thought leader, Marshall Goldsmith, has named Dr. Sharkey as one of the top 100 executive coaches from a field of over 16,000 and she was named to “Trust Across America’s 2018 Top Thought Leaders in Trust.”
Dr. Sharkey is a recognized expert on the future of workplaces around the globe and has been quoted recently in Inc. Magazine and Fast Company Magazine.