About SC+C

Mission

Shaffer Coaching + Consulting works with leaders and teams to maximize their potential and the potential of those they lead. We facilitate experiences that inspire leaders and teams by strengthening mindsets, leveraging clear frameworks, and applying them to their specific context so that participants walk away empowered with actionable commitments they can apply as soon as the very next day.

Vision

Leaders and teams walk away motivated and inspired through our work together. They have clarified what exceptional leadership and teamwork look like, and are equipped with the mindset, skills, and confidence to put those principles into practice every day.

Founder & CEO

Kyle Shaffer

A Dynamic Leader and Facilitator —

Kyle is the founder of Shaffer Coaching + Consulting who brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to leadership development and organizational culture. Kyle has worked with hundreds of leaders throughout the country, across sectors and roles, spanning from aspiring leaders to top executives. Whether it’s through one-on-one coaching sessions or a workshop, people leave sessions feeling inspired, owning their strengths, and having practiced specific skills and strategies to help them thrive.

Always an educator at heart, Kyle loves learning and growing, and he helps others do the same. He has spent two decades in education, fifteen of those years as a leader in schools and school districts–he has experience as a founder, a successor leader, and a district leader, where he managed and coached the school leaders across the district.

Kyle has a B.A. in Sociology from Emory University and a Masters in Educational Leadership from National Louis University. He lives in St. Louis where he strives to be a great husband and a great father to his three amazing children.

Positions and Accomplishments

As an elementary school principal, led one of the top five highest performing elementary schools in New Orleans.
As a middle school principal, led the highest performing open enrollment school in San Francisco, which was recognized as a California Distinguished School.
Alongside families fighting for change, created the vision and founded a top performing PreK through eighth grade school which was recognized by Innovate Public Schools as a top performing school for low income students in the entire Bay Area.
Selected for the national Fisher Fellowship alongside sixteen leaders across the country, creating a vision for and founding new schools.
Served as Vice President of Schools for KIPP St. Louis, managing and coaching leaders across the district to transform school cultures and navigate through the shifts from the pandemic.

Served as a Leadership Coach for numerous leaders across the country from aspiring leaders to top executives.
Completed Relay Graduate School’s National Principal Supervisor fellowship and recognized with Distinguished Honors.
Recognized as a "40 Under 40" recipient by Emory University as an alum who has had significant impact on education and communities.
Facilitated leadership development for five cohorts of the Miles Fellowship, a group of aspiring school leaders selected annually from across the nation.
Presented at the Nueva School Innovative Learning Conference which has participants from across the world.