Shannon brings over three decades of experience transforming how organizations achieve sustainable success through cultural innovation and strategic purpose alignment. She has been the architect of frameworks that prove how purpose-driven culture catalyzes business value and market differentiation within complex organizations.

At PwC, Shannon held multiple global leadership roles, including Chief Purpose Officer, Sustainability leader, Diversity & Inclusion leader, co-Leader for CEO Action for Diversity and Inclusion, and President of the PwC Foundation, where she positioned PwC as a model for uniting shareholder value with societal impact. The thread that connects these actions is the human need for purpose and their desire to be instrumental in meaningful positive change.

Shannon’s expertise extends across industries, where she partners with C-suite leaders and boards to strengthen governance and long-term value creation. In the for-profit space, she has engaged private and public company boards on embedding purpose and values into organizational ecosystems, integrating sustainability into culture, and navigating the expectations of investors, regulators, and other critical stakeholders in a rapidly evolving landscape. In the non-profit sector, she has led strategic planning and redesign, overseen large-scale pro bono funding initiatives, and guided officer succession planning and CEO searches.

Breakthrough insights on the relationship between organizational culture and strategic execution has earned her recognition from leading business publications including Fortune, Forbes, and The Wall Street Journal. Her influence on modern business thinking was acknowledged by Insider, which named her among the 100 People Transforming Business in 2021. She was also recognized as a 2019 World Changing Woman in Conscious Business and included in Fast Company's list of the 100 Most Creative Business Leaders.