Sharon Knoll has consulted with organizations in the U.S., Europe and Japan in the areas of change management and leadership and organizational development for the past 25 years. She has conducted multi-year transformational programs inside such organizations as Intel, Nordstrom, Fisher Companies, and the Weyerhaeuser Company. In Ms. Knoll’s view, leadership resides in everyone—it is not associated with or limited to rank and position—and it can be nourished and developed. She is committed to the concept that people are the solution, not the problem.

Ms. Knoll has supported effective change not only in the boardrooms of corporations and institutions, but also in the assembly halls of rural villages in the developing world. Over the past four years, she has consulted within the United Nations system. She has worked in Africa, Papua New Guinea, and the Caribbean countries with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), with her most satisfying work being the design and facilitation of a Coaching Capacity Development Program inside UNDP’s HIV/AIDS Group. These programs varied in length from three months to three years in Ethiopia, South Africa, Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, and countries of the Caribbean. This work has provided a platform for beginning to develop hundreds of south-based facilitator/coaches and has been expanded to all development issues.