Shannon Jordan

Shannon is board certified coach and leadership development consultant with an extensive background in talent development and employee engagement. She spent 8 years at Qualcomm supporting employees, teams and leaders across the globe to tap into higher levels of performance in their work by leveraging emotional intelligence, positive psychology and neuroscience-based mindfulness practices. Shannon now consults across private and public industry sectors, having facilitated programs for organizations such as eBay, PayPal, StubHub, Oracle, Genentech, Monster Media, AMEX, Kaiser Permanente, Welk Resorts, CalSTRS, and the Port of San Diego. Shannon holds a bachelors degree in business and a masters degree in counseling psychology.  She is a contributing author to the book Building Workforce Strength, and spent several years as an Ask-the-Expert columnist on workplace issues for USAToday.com. Prior to moving into organizational work, Shannon served as a program director at UCSD Extended Studies and taught on the adjunct faculty at USD School of Leadership for many years. Currently, she teaches mindful leadership at both UCSD Rady School of Management Executive Education and UC Irvine Extension. Shannon completed teacher training in mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) through UCSD Center for Mindfulness and has had a personal mindfulness practice for nearly 15 years. Shannon has traveled the world extensively and lived in Singapore but is at home in Solana Beach where she lives with her husband and teen daughter. Shannon completed teacher training in mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) through UCSD Center for Mindfulness and has had a personal mindfulness practice for nearly 15 years. Shannon has traveled the world extensively and lived in Singapore but is at home in Solana Beach where she lives with her husband and teen daughter.