Shamis Pitts is the Founder and Owner of Pitts Leadership Consulting. She has embraced wellbeing and mindfulness as her tools to connect with peace and joy to help her navigate the world. Her commitment is also around helping others achieve the same goal. She is Certified Professional Coach, a thought leader, keynote speaker and a human capital consultant. This episode has a bit of everything, diversity, religion and spirituality, call to action and full blown inspiration.
Shamis Story in her own words:
I launched Pitts Leadership in March 2019 after completing a “year on” of soul searching. For years, I struggled to connect with my purpose and made the decision to step back from the world of work until I could answer the questions - “Why am I here? What do I want to contribute to the world?”
I have always enjoyed serving and supporting others; however, doing so often left me feeling depleted. I always had access to interesting job opportunities, and I would happily accept the challenges presented to me because I loved leveraging what I knew while learning something new. But something was missing. I realized that the “something” was me!
I was often supporting someone else’s vision for the future without having a commitment to my own. I had been working 70-100 hour weeks, prioritizing work over wellbeing, telling myself that I was doing so in order to support the organizations I was leading and the employees within them.
After taking a step back, I realized - I believe in leading by example. How can I support the wellbeing of others if I am not operating from wellbeing? I then committed to a life of wellbeing - physically, emotionally, socially - and established the support system I needed to be in integrity with that choice.
With Pitts Leadership, I, along with my team and my partners, seek to support individuals and organizations on that journey by providing leadership coaching, training and development, keynote speaking and human capital consulting services.
Pitts Leadership leverages my 20 years of experience in strategy, people leadership and business process within human resources management consulting, financial services, education and start-up technology.
I have served as the official mediator and the unofficial heart and soul for many companies. I endeavor to support individuals, teams and organizations to create similar powerful, purposeful experiences.
Shamis serves in the President's Council of The Acceleration Project a female-founded, female-led business advisory firm dedicated to keeping local economies vital and channeling talent into the economy.
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About – Pitts Leadership Consulting LLC
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