OUR FACILITATORS

Sheila Ramsey, PhD

Crestone, Colorado, U.S.A.

• PL Founder
• Global leadership development
• Creativity
• Consulting

PL work
Sheila Ramsey, PhD, is one of the three Founding Partners of the Personal Leadership practice and of the Personal Leadership Seminars organization. She is acutely aware that global leaders who are skilled in leading themselves while leading others are those who can create life-affirming paradigms for us all.

Motivated by over 20 years of an ever-deepening PL practice, Sheila teaches and speaks about Personal Leadership all over the world. She has offered PL at the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies in Rhinebeck, New York, and at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. She has trained faculty and staff of the Jakarta International School in Indonesia, and directors in the UN Secretariat Leadership Development Programs in Europe, North America and Africa. She has given public PL seminars in Tokyo, Japan, and currently teaches PL at the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication in Portland, Oregon.

Sheila lives in Crestone, Colorado, which is the inspirational home of PL. She has been hosting a variety of PL seminars there since 2001: the PL Foundations training, the Training of Facilitators seminars, Global Gatherings, and specialized PL seminars. She is one of the three authors of Making a World of Difference: Personal Leadership.

Other work
Sheila is founder of The Crestone Institute, a Colorado-based consulting firm known internationally for a focus on integrating creativity with global and personal leadership.

Since 1975, Sheila has worked with global leaders in corporate, government and NGO contexts in Asia and Africa, the Middle East, the Balkans, Europe and North America. Clients have included: the U.S. Department of State, UN-AIDS, the Smithsonian Institution, the U.S. Peace Corps, Daimler-Benz Corporation, the George Washington University Elliott School of International Diplomacy, Intel-Japan and Apple-Japan.

Personal background
Sheila is a “domestic nomad,” having been born in Texas, then shuttling between Texas and Illinois in the younger part of her life.  She lived in Japan three different times for a total of six years, which was the beginning of a 20-year professional relationship with Japan. She has taught intercultural communication at two universities in Japan and, in the early 1980s, co-developed one of the first series of seminars on “Working and Living in Japan” for non-Japanese global executives in Tokyo.

Academic
She holds an MS and PhD in Human Communication from the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, supported by a background in theatre and anthropology.
 
Other interests
Sheila is a visual artist, worked for several years as a professional photographer, and studied as a potter’s apprentice in Mashiko, Japan. She loves hiking in the glow of mountain sunsets on the Sangre de Cristo Mountains that are just outside her front door.