The effective approach to feedback grounded in positive psychology and allyship

Jen Ostrich

After 14 years of leading teams and clients in the advertising industry, Jen decided to follow one of her own core beliefs of "leap and the net will appear" when she sprung into a new career of leadership coaching. To complement her BA in Communications from Penn State, Jen is certified in leadership and transition coaching by the prestigious Hudson Institute, considered to be "the Harvard of Coaching." Since then she's become a PCC level coach with the ICF after completing over 1,000 hours of coaching.

Jen is the founder of ostrich coaching + consulting where she works primarily with leaders in creative communities such as advertising, marketing and technology. Jen is passionate about helping leaders craft their own leadership brand and then living and leading a life that's authentic to who they truly are. Through positive psychology, emotional intelligence, the work of Brene Brown and other experience across business and marketing, Jen brings a unique combination of being able to think like a coach, a leader, a brand and a business person.

As the co-founder of the shift positive 360, Jen is thrilled to be a change agent for how to give feedback in an energizing and effective way while helping others to create sustainable positive change. When she's not running her two businesses, Jen enjoys eating her way through Austin with her outrageously handsome dogs, Koko + Leo.

Pete Berridge

Peter Berridge is an accomplished coach and facilitator who utilizes the sciences of positive psychology and executive coaching to help individuals, teams, and organizations be more engaged, effective and productive. Pete became a certified executive coach through the Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara and is one of 300 people in the world with a Master of Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP) degree from the University of Pennsylvania. Positive psychology is the study of human strengths and well-being which employs proven methods to promote the flourishing of people, organizations, and communities.

Pete also has advanced training in the art of appreciative inquiry and visual facilitation, which he uses to engage organizations and their stakeholders in a highly interactive way, to envision a compelling future, and to move forward with focus and energy. Pete is the founder and president of Shorebird Coaching and Consulting. He has 25+ years of coaching (more than 4,000 hours of individual coaching), facilitation, and Human Resources experience, culminating as executive VP of Human Resources at Courage Center, a nationally respected healthcare agency serving over 20,000 people with disabilities annually. Pete's passion is coaching senior executives, rising leaders, teams, and organizations that are navigating challenges and charting new directions.

Jamie Shapiro

Jamie Shapiro is a leading authority on connecting wellness with performance. Having experienced burnout in the corporate world, she understands the incredible pressure we face in our lives and the difficulty in staying connected to professional and personal goals in demanding environments. Through her corporate career, she realized the toll that high pressure, stressful and demanding roles can take. She left the corporate world with a mission to make changes for people and organizations. Jamie's vision is to bring a new form of holistic coaching to people in the business world. Her company, ConnectedEC, helps people develop a keen awareness of how both their health and mindset have an effect on their capacity to reliably tap into their capabilities. Jamie has brought executive coaching and wellness together to give people a new approach to leadership, health and outstanding personal, professional, and organizational performance.

Jamie has been coaching and developing high performing teams since 1998 in executive roles within large-scale corporate companies and now externally. She is helping executives and teams within leading companies and organizations, including GE, Comcast, and Daniels School of Business. Jamie has an MBA and a Masters in Information Technology and is certified as both an executive coach and a nutritionist.