Shelley McClure

Shelley McClure, CHE, EdD, CEC, is an executive coach, educator, and health-care leader with over 25 years of experience across health care, education, and business. A Certified LEADS Facilitator, Specialist, and Coach, she partners with leaders at all levels, emerging to executive, to achieve sustainable, meaningful change by fostering clarity, confidence, and courage in complex systems. Shelley is known for bringing learning to life in ways that create impact felt in everyday practice.

Her leadership approach is relational and evidence-informed, grounded in self-awareness, trust, and purposeful action. She creates psychologically safe environments, facilitates courageous conversations, and strengthens individual and team capability. Drawing on her doctoral research, extensive leadership experience, and the LEADS in a Caring Environment Framework, she guides leaders in navigating uncertainty while making decisions with head, heart, and gut: the triangle of decision-making.

In her consulting and educational work, Shelley supports transformative, operational, and strategic implementation through a distributed leadership model. She designs engaging learning experiences that foster reflection, growth, and skill mastery, integrating a coach approach to elevate engagement and organizational effectiveness.

Shelley’s leadership philosophy is anchored in kindness, humility, and social justice. She views leadership as a dynamic, human process requiring an agile, learner mindset to achieve sustainable outcomes.

A lifelong learner, Shelley holds a Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership with a focus on transformative change, a Master of Arts in Leadership and Training, a Certificate in Executive Coaching, and certifications including Trauma Informed Coach®, Coaching Out of the Box®, Psychological Safety®, Emotional Intelligence®, Trust in the Workplace®, Fierce Conversations©, and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®.

She has received multiple Awards of Excellence for outstanding service and has authored extensive learning and development material, most recently for the Canadian College of Health Leaders.

Hargrove’s invitation—“Dream. Imagine. Explore. Rebel. Invent. Create. Transform. Pioneer.”—reflects not only an ethos Shelley teaches, but the way she traverses the world.