S2E26 - Employee Trust, Relationships, Engagement, and Authentic Leadership During a Pandemic Response, with Shona Elliott

In this HCI Podcast episode, Dr. Westover talks with Shona Elliott about employee trust, relationships, engagement, and authentic leadership during pandemic response. See the video here: https://youtu.be/BhLC3WHLdDA. Shona Elliott (https://www.linkedin.com/in/shona-elliott-965581b1/) is an experienced senior leader who is passionate about helping other senior leaders connect and engage with their greatest assets – their employees – for the purposes of increasing employee retention, employee engagement, and achieving an organization’s strategic goals. As a previous CEO, with fifteen years of senior leadership experience, including pandemic planning, occupational health & safety and operations, Shona understands the many challenges and competing priorities of busy executives. Having been in their shoes, designing and successfully implementing her organizations’ strategic plans, she recognized and harnessed the power of employee engagement to achieve her organizations’ goals. Throughout her fifteen years as a senior leader – both in healthcare and for-profit organizations in Canada and the United States – Shona has a proven track record helping organizations emerging from crisis achieve cultural renewal with a people-centered focus. Through connection with leaders and front line employees, Shona has led an organization through the process to achieve two Top 100 Employer designations. Shona has extensive expertise in strategic planning, transformational leadership, organizational development, and quality management.  Shona previously worked and lived in Southwestern Ontario, Canada, where she obtained her Bachelor of Science, honors degree in biochemistry. Shona also holds an MBA from NYIT, an advanced program certificate in human resources management from the University of Toronto and obtained her certification as an ISO 9000 auditor. She now lives with her family in Edmond, Oklahoma. Shona is an avid golfer, having golfed six out of the seven continents. In addition, she is a novice biohacker, a cautious skier, a world traveler, as well as a food and cooking enthusiast.   Contact Information Website:  www.shonaelliott.org Email:  shona@shonaelliott.org Mobile: 4058883893 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shonaelliott1/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shona-elliott-965581b1/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ShonaElliott4 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shona.elliott.566 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.