Sheila Ramsey, PhD
Practice Lead: Leadership Development
Dr. Sheila Ramsey is known globally for her work in international leadership development and creativity. For over thirty years, the purpose of her work has been to design communication processes that explore the interface between creativity, leadership and human development.
Sheila is a Founding Partner of the ‘Personal Leadership (PL): Making A World of Difference’ process technology. The purpose of this technology is to enable those who live and work across difference to use such diversity as a creative resource. Since 2006, this approach has been applied around the world and with diverse groups, contexts and ages. This methodology is now available to the public in Making A World of Difference. Personal Leadership: A Methodology of Two Principles and Six Practices, FlyingKite Publications, March 2008.
She has worked throughout Asia, the Middle East, the Balkans, Europe and North America. Serving as program designer and lead facilitator, she has designed and facilitated sessions on leading through others, leading change, leading teams as well as delivered individual coaching for a wide range of mid-level and senior leaders. Among her many clients are the Smithsonian Institute, numerous government agencies, large NGOs, the Daimler Corporation and diverse agencies and offices within the United Nations.
She has taught intercultural communication in two universities in Japan, worked as a professional photographer, served as a potter’s apprentice in Japan and is a visual artist. Dr. Ramsey received her PhD in Communications from the University of Pittsburgh. She lives in both Washington, D.C. and Colorado, where she is founder of the Crestone Institute.