Claudia Shelton is the founder and president of The Hopewell Group, providing strategic development strategies, team facilitation and executive coaching to high performing corporate executives and their organizations. As a seasoned executive, licensed professional counselor, certified psychologist and educator, Shelton is an internationally recognized authority on leadership and organizational development—helping individuals and organizations to turn their blind spots into assets.
 
Shelton has written five books including the recently published Blind Spots: Achieve Success by Seeing What You Can’t See (John Wiley, March, 2007). Her clients include companies from financial services, insurance, investments, aerospace, retail, manufacturing, and packaged goods, the majority of which are included among the Fortune 500.
 
Interviewed nationally by the media and named by Business Week Magazine as "one of the 50 women to watch", Shelton was previously an executive for IBM, JPMorganChase, and Travelers Insurance Company; and was a board member of the Association of National Advertisers and the Marketing Science Institute. She holds master’s degrees in Business, Communications Research, and Counseling and has taught at Michigan State University, NYU, Columbia University, City University of New York and the University of Hartford. She is currently a trustee of the Connecticut Career Development Association.
 
A national speaker, Shelton’s keynote presentations and seminars include, The Hartford Insurance Group, LIMRA, JPMorganChase,  Kaman Aerospace, Deutsche Bank, Pitney Bowes, The Society for Human Resource Executives, the United Nations, the Society for Information Managers, the Association of National Advertisers, The American Marketing Association, The International Congress of Meeting Planners  and Attorneys for Family Held Enterprises.
 
In addition, Ms. Shelton serves as Executive Director of The Hopewell Learning Center, which conducts research related to learning across the lifespan, specifically projects for teachers and students in grades K-12 and those 50-65 year olds facing the choices of their Second Adult Life™. 
 
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Publications
 
Identifying Blind Spots by Claudia Shelton in “Leadership Excellence,” July, 2007 issue.
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Turn Your Blind Spots Into Assets by Claudia Shelton in “Training and Development,”  July, 2007.
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Blind Spots: Achieve success by Seeing What You Can’t See by Claudia M. Shelton, John Wiley, March, 2007. 
 
Emotionally Intelligent School Counseling, edited by John Pelleteri, Robin Stern, Claudia Shelton and Barbara Muller-Ackerman, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 2005
 
Understanding Emotion in the Classroom, Claudia Marshall Shelton and Robin Stern, Dude Publishing, 2004.
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Emotional Awareness: Fundamental to Effective Teaching, Claudia Marshall Shelton, Published in Independent School, Spring, 2003.
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Portraits in Emotional Awareness, Claudia Marshall Shelton, Published in Educational Leadership, 58 (1), 30-32.
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Innersense Builds Commonsense, Claudia Marshall Shelton, Published in Educational Leadership, 57 (1), 61-64.
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