BIO - Sharon A. Kuhn, Author, Organizational Health Consultant, Gallup Engagement Champion, Forbes online contributor and Council Member, Executive Coach, Empathy Trainer and certified Holistic Health and Wellness Coach.  

Summary: Sharon creates and blends tools for teams to accurately interpret each other and maximize performance and efficiency. Her clients increase empathy, advance communication and relationship skills, unlock talent, and increase conflict productivity for goal achievement.

Background: Sharon has worked for over 30 years in the area of talent discovery, brain science, and trauma intervention impacting organizations and families. She is the author of the Your Interior Design, a brain based, identity framework, emotional intelligence and talent accelerator designed to develop empathy and self-confidence. Sharon believes that strong relationships and a true sense of belonging are the basis for resilience, agility, mental strength, and talent engagement. Designing diverse and inclusive environments for leaders and teams, she empowers people of all ages to understand relationships and their underlying mechanisms thereby maximizing potential.

Sharon’s life experiences and research have earned her the admiration of her colleagues in the mental health, business, and education professions who esteem her as an emotional intelligence coach as well as an attachment and behavioral specialist in the fields of Interpersonal Neurobiology and trauma informed care. 

Author: Sharon’s book, Empathy, A Guide to Maximizing Human Potential, has been entered into the Forbes Executive Library and is based on her own trauma informed and mental strengths program, Your Interior Design formerly named, Unique EQ. It is available at Amazon.com.

History: Throughout 20 years of home educating her five children, Kindergarten through high school, and 16 years of teaching art to students ages 4 to 84, Sharon witnessed the profound power of empathy and affirmation. Scaffolding students’ diverse abilities, including many special needs students, Sharon saw learners of all ages increase their self-expression for personal and academic achievement. These years were proving grounds for the framework of her, Your Interior Design, her blueprint for discovering one’s unique somatosensory, emotional, intellectual, and behavioral model exploring beyond traditional personality assessments.  

Sharon’s Motto: We don’t just manage the pain; we build the brain by turning everyday circumstances into developmental opportunities needed in a high stimulus fast paced world.

Speaking and Passion: The neuroscience of empathy for secure attachment, health, brain optimization, and cultural engagement is Sharon’s passion. Having presented to businesses and organizations such as NASA, Mental Health America, Parkview Behavioral Health, Paul Merage School of Business and many others, Sharon would count it a privilege to work with your organization to enhance your wellness culture for corporate success.

Research and Backdrop

Sharon’s personal recovery from early childhood trauma has played the most significant role in her work as a parent, teacher, coach, author, and speaker. For over 30 years Sharon has focused on close relationships and their underlying mechanisms influencing self-esteem, motivation, culture, and workplace engagement.

In addition to the science outlined in her book, Empathy, A Guide to Maximizing Human Potential, she is highly researched having explored the effects of children’s and adult’s sense of attachment security on their capacity for high performance on their job, ability to engage in pro-social behavior, and self-regulate for lifelong learning. Sharon believes the foundations for altruistic identity development, and attentional strategies can be rebuilt through customized application of her model: Your Interior Design and applicable to the field of Organizational Health—the most likely pathway to meeting the needs of the masses.

Her disciplines include:

·      Relational leadership (science of attachment in the workplace.

·      Emotional intelligence

·      Employee engagement

·      Attachment theory and affect regulation

·      Trauma informed care, burnout recovery

·      Resiliency research

·      Interpersonal neurobiology

·      Effects of genetic and epigenetic mechanisms on self-regulation and health

Each discipline illuminates neurological impact of attachment-imprint pertaining to self-belief, motivation, and whether one’s attachments benefit or stand in the way of early education and development toward resilience.

Offering 1-on-1 life and executive coaching and organizational health consulting.  Sharon would love to train you and your teams in the power of empathy for workplace wellness. Her comprehensive toolbox and approach entitled—Your Interior Design—unlocks full talent engagement for accelerating and protecting your strategic goals.  Sharon is endorsed by national and international leaders for implementing the hard science behind the soft skills of success.

Emotional Intelligence Consultant, Leadership Coach | Author Your Interior Design

www.sharonkuhn.com  |  Office: 260-443-3056  |  Based in Indiana, US