Our Valued Clients and Success Stories

  • AHIP (America’s Health Insurance Plans)

    Provide one-on-one coaching and training for vice presidents and management team members. Developed “Roadmap for Success” curriculum focusing on topics ranging from leadership traits, delegation and feedback, to managing up and down.

  • American Health Care Association

    Analyze and provide recommendations and strategies to address proposed rules and sub-regulatory guidance related to health quality and safety standards for long-term care facilities.

  • Canfield Scientific

    Using a 360-assessment and the Energy Leadership Index, provide individual and team coaching on identified areas of development including creating synergy among and across teams; discovering areas that may negatively, and positively, impact their ability to lead, understand and navigate difficult conversations; and managing conflict. 

  • Lumos Pharma

    Using an EQ-i 2.0 (emotional intelligence) 360 assessment, provided one-on-one coaching for C-suite members. Identified key opportunities for growth to strengthen their leadership skills.

  • B&B Health Boutique: Raising Awareness & the Importance of Early Detection for Cancer

    Provided one-on-one coaching to the founder, developed their leadership style and addressed obstacles to building their small businesses.

  • Affinity Strategies

    Partnered with health care association management company to support operations and stakeholder engagement. Filed client’s articles of incorporation and annual report to maintain compliance with secretary of state.

  • Ferrilli, Higher Education Technology Consultants

    Provided one-on-one coaching focussing on client-driven goals. Provided resources to develop their team/future business leaders with effective leadership and communication strategies.

  • Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

    Surveyed, assessed, and coordinated national projects to assist federal agency with improving the consistency of regulations and the quality of care in the nation’s 15,800 nursing homes. Identified underlying systemic problems that have given rise to repeated cycles of serious quality deficiencies and provided recommendations.

  • American Orthopaedic Association

    Developed customized virtual work shops to support a team of 20-plus employees and leaders to get an edge up on 2021 and beyond. Key elements included goal setting, identifying gaps in knowledge and mindset, and pulling in team strengths to set them up for success.

  • American Urological Association

    Provides one-on-one coaching and work shops for the middle- and senior-level Building Business Leadership Capabilities and Expedition Program cohorts and C Suite on topics including delegation, feedback, emotional intelligence, and political awareness.

  • Hinton & Company

    Researched and provided strategic support for clients seeking to manage and respond to the risks, opportunities, and impacts of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

  • MenHealth

    Provided individual and group coaching to help Executive Team become a stronger, more cohesive operational unit. Assessed individual leadership traits and values; created a team alliance.

  • Mea Brown & Co.

    Co-advise clients on diversity, equity, and inclusion strategies. Research content and copyedit editorial content.

  • Oregon Health & Science University

    Empower women leaders with one-on-one coaching pathways that start with an emotional intelligence assessment and focus on traits and skills that impact the ability to lead yourself, lead the team, and lead the organization.

  • SWIU (Society of Women in Urology)

    As the inaugural speaker at the Society of Women in Urology virtual series “Advancing Women in Urology,” coached physicians on how the inner critic shows up in one’s life and work and shared best practices to quiet the voice in one’s head that unfairly causes you to doubt yourself.

    Provided consultation on SWIU’s strategic direction and the priorities for 2025.

  • CRD Associates

    Provide customized in-person workshops and coaching for 10-15 team members.

  • Society for Women’s Health Research

    Provide virtual and in-person learning for staff and the leadership team to influence the direction of SWHR and the impact each team member has on the association’s success.

  • Brio Travel Artisans

    Welcome to Brio Travel Artisans! We look forward to working with your team.

  • International Society for Sexual Medicine

    Launched the ISSM Future Leaders Program! 


    We’ve created all the leadership content for this incredible program, starting with an onsite training day and followed by virtual learning, individualized EQ-i 2.0 assessments, and a personalized Success Road Map.!

  • American Board of Obesity Medicine

    Welcome to our newest client, the American Board of Obesity Medicine. We’re honored to partner with your leadership team and board to co-create a high-impact leadership retreat.

  • Personify

    Provided interactive workshops for their team members in the Women’s Employee Resource Group.

  • American Immigration Lawyers Association

    Co-created the association’s first in-person retreat in five years, focussing on goals and priorities.

What Our Clients Say

  • In just a short time I was able to take frustrations in my lack of forward momentum to leading a large team through a challenging project with energy and action.

    Formerly Executive Director, Health Care, and now Vice President
    Baltimore-area hospital system, Maryland

  • Thank you to Kathleen Zwarick Shanley, PhD, CAE, ACC, ELI-MP and our Women's Network for planning a professional development workshop where our employees spent time learning: How to identify (and enhance) game changer leadership characteristics; 
Behaviors that limit leadership; and 
Strategies to ensure we achieve our leadership goals!

    Personify

  • Provided exceptional value to the team. Accomplished our goals to groom our future business leaders and arm them with effective leadership and communication strategies.

    Bill H., COO and Director of Innovation
    major imaging software and research company
    Parsippany, New Jersey

  • The sessions reignited a dwindling self-belief . . . and re-evaluate what was important to me and whether I was willing to make the sacrifices needed to achieve what I wished to do with my working life.

    N. Graham, Client & Small Business Owner, Alabama

  • Kathy gets my highest recommendation as an executive coach. Her unique ability to recognize, understand, and explain complex business relationships has excelled my thinking, and most importantly, my actions. I truly believe I have improved my leadership style.

    Larry Fuhrmann, COO, R.S. Crum & Company, Mountainside, NJ

  • My new position as senior director was exciting but sometimes challenging and overwhelming. Kathy was a tremendous help in getting me to set appropriate priorities and improve my leadership style.

    Client, Washington, DC

  • Kathy is an outstanding executive coach. We worked together on specific leadership and communication behaviors that have allowed me to become much more effective in my role. She’s personable, easy to work with and also has a great grasp of what’s necessary to navigate in today’s complex business world.

    Stephanie Colotti, formerly Director, Business Operations, and now partner, Madison, WI area

  • Even after my first call, my confidence grew and I was able to figure out ways to manage up and get the information I needed from my boss to perform my job well. Kathy is warm and friendly and is so helpful in gently guiding you to figure out where you can improve upon the skillset you already have. I would recommend her coaching to anyone I know who wants to move up the career ladder!

    Client, Alexandria, VA

  • Over several months, Kathy/Statice coached our founding team through individual and group meetings to become a stronger, more cohesive operational unit. Our work environment is more collaborative, positive, confident, and engaged. We are very thankful to Kathy for working with us to transform our team and would recommend her and Statice to both corporations and startups.

    Jenny Belotserkovsky, CEO, MenHealth, San Francisco, CA

  • Kathy is one of my favorite people to work with. Why? Because she is smart, empathic, has great business acumen, and is someone who does what she says she is going to do. She is a certified professional coach who makes a real difference for her clients.

    Jennifer Baker, MSW, CAE
    Senior Director, Business Solutions
    ASAE: The Center for Association Leadership (2012-2022)

  • I was at a major inflection point in my career and feeling stuck. Kathy had me identify my values and used them as the touchstone as I evaluated my options. Besides being incredibly patient, Kathy’s ability to listen, identify recurring themes and in this case pain points helped me cut through the what-ifs and anxiety to make a decision and feel confident about it.

    Senior Executive, Policy Consulting Firm, Washington, DC

  • Kathy has been a valuable resource for our organization as we have navigated the ups and downs of the pandemic and has demonstrated flexibility, expertise, a positive perspective, and the on-point coaching to help strengthen our association staff relationships so needed during this tumultuous period in association management.

    Kristin O. Glavin, Esq., Executive Director
    The American Orthopaedic Association; OMeGA Medical Grants Association

  • With an honest and direct approach, she challenges you in a friendly way that helps you develop more lasting skills. I highly recommend working with her if you are at an inflection point or ready to take a leap as a leader.

    Adam B., Washington, D.C.

  • Kathy helped me navigate through the storm of the pandemic and social change over the years with my own EQ-i 2.0 analysis. I recently reviewed this again prior to our return to face-to-face live meetings and realized just how powerful a gift she has given me. Priceless.

    Eugene Rhee, MD, Chair of Urology, Kaiser Permanente, San Diego, CA

  • Kathy helped me identify and break down obstacles at work and in my own head. With Kathy’s patience and guidance I have a plan in place with tangible goals to reach the next phase of my career.

    Client, Washington, D.C.

  • Kathy is an amazing partner. We developed a leadership program for Managers and Directors and Kathy was vital in the development of this program. When the group was surveyed, the highest ratings of the program components were the sessions and coaching with Kathy. Our program would not have been as successful without Kathy’s wisdom and expertise.

    Randi Cremmins, Human Resources Manager, American Urological Association

  • Kathy is a trusted partner who shows up with a positive attitude and openness for all perspectives.

    Elizabeth Schumacher, JD, CEO & Founder, Affinity Strategies, Lombard, IL

  • Statice coaching allowed me to create a plan to advance my policy career to the next level. I truly looked forward to our sessions and Kathy always brought up insights that I had never considered.

    Client, Washington, DC

  • Kathy worked with me to assess my strengths and weaknesses, and also helped me identify and prioritize the values that define who I am. She put me on the path to tackling my imposter syndrome by patiently helping me to recognize the impact that my thoughts and feelings have on my behavior and actions. Our work together will help me as I plot the second half of my career.

    Client, Washington, DC

  • I was slightly unsure of myself as someone on a leadership path at a new firm. Through her strategic approach to professional coaching, I put together a multi-tiered plan for success that included key goals, strategies, and tactics that dug into every facet of firm leadership. The plan was met with unanimous enthusiasm from senior executives. Kathy brought me from a place of self-doubt to a mindset of self-belief.

    Jonathan, policy consulting firm in Washington, DC

  • Kathy is an incredible career coach. Her approach allowed me to rethink my career, and think outside of the box, when it came to developing my resume and my overall career plan/perspective. I highly recommend working with her.

    Rachel, Association Professional in Chicago area

  • My coaching sessions were an incredibly useful investment. These sessions helped me identify things I needed to work on in order to unlock my next level of success and re-define what success meant to me: as a physician, leader and person.  I felt this experience was invaluable and would 10/10 recommend to anyone looking to sharpen their toolset.

    Casey Seideman M.D., Oregon Health & Science University

  • We invited Kathy to lead an interactive workshop on Quieting your Inner Critic for the Society of Women in Urology membership and she seemlessly provided expert content, facilitated small group breakouts, offered a framework to think about how our thoughts can be self critical and actions to validate ourselves. Highly recommend her for your professional development goals!

    Simone Thavaseelan, M.D., Society of Women in Urology
    Associate Professor of Urology, Brown University

  • Kathleen’s guidance and insights have been nothing short of transformative; she assisted me by providing excellent resources that enabled in-depth discussions and much-needed self-reflection to help guide me on my own leadership journey. She possesses an innate ability to see beyond the surface and dive deep into the core of who I am as a leader, as well as my potential.

    C. Zamora, Director, Nonprofit Membership Organization

  • Kathy didn't waste time on ‘fluff’ or teaching me things I already know. We started with leadership traits and easily pivoted to specific areas I wanted to address. I walked away with actionable frameworks and strategies to lead.

    Sarah Hecht, MD
    Asst. Professor of Pediatric Urology
    Oregon Health & Science University

  • For years, I had the benefit of Kathy’s “informal” coaching on a regular basis. Made me a better leader and frankly a better person. I strongly endorse Statice.

    David Penson, MD, MPH,
    Vanderbilt University Medical Center

  • The SWHR staff met with Kathleen Zwarick Shanley, PhD, CAE, ACC, ELI-MP last week to chat about leadership dynamics, trusted relationships, and team communication. Thank you for a valuable conversation, Kathy!

    Society for Women’s Health Research

  • Kathy has an incredible gift for mentorship and leadership coaching. She is a true asset, and any team to have the privilege to work with her will find itself better for the partnership.

    Erin Kirkby, MS, Guidelines Director
    American Urological Association
    Expedition Class

  • Our team partnered with Statice to get to know each other better, understand our own and each other's styles as well as our team culture. I really enjoyed this exercise and have already found ways to incorporate the insights that were shared.

    Luxury Travel Brand Client, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

  • Kathy continues to surpass my expectations in every regard. Her insightful guidance, personalized approach, and steadfast support have empowered our executives to navigate complex challenges with more clarity and confidence. I highly recommend Kathy to any HR executive seeking to elevate their organization’s perform.

    Maggi Gentle, SHRM-SCP

    Vice President, Human Resources

    Lumos Pharma, Inc.

  • Kathy helps me OPTIMIZE what I already do well and tweak some other areas that are “fine” so that they are great as well. I've improved my decision-making process, enhanced my emotional intelligence, and refined my leadership style due to working with Kathy. I'm so glad I made that first call to her!

    Ellen Breipohl Thorp, CAE
    Meridian Consulting LLC

  • Kathy’s support was invaluable during my career transition, boosting my confidence in my skills. I highly recommend her services for anyone seeking a career change.

    Hannah G.
    New Jersey

  • Kathy helped us plan our first in-person All-Staff since February 2020, which included distilling down our very long list of potential topics to those that would be most impactful and valuable to our group of 80+, many of whom were meeting in person for the first time. I would recommend Kathy to anyone who is having difficulty figuring out where to start, which goals to prioritize, and how to hold yourselves accountable to them.

    Kay Ciesla
    Chief Governance and Leadership Strategy Officer
    American Immigration Lawyers Association

Statice Turns 10!

Statice turned 10 in 2024! As we look back on the past decade, we are filled with gratitude for the connections we have built with our amazing clients. Their video testimonials have left us speechless, so we are sharing them with you. We can’t wait to see what the next decade will bring!

Watch what our clients say!

Kathy is a trusted partner who shows up with a positive attitude
and openness for all perspectives.

— Elizabeth Schumacher, JD, CEO & Founder, Affinity Strategies, Lombard, IL

Interested in achieving similar success? Contact us to discover how our tailored solutions can drive your organization’s growth.