Professional Development Book Club

Join us for our monthly book club focused on building business and professional skills. We'll discuss key insights from leading business and self-improvement books, sharing how to apply them in our work lives.

This month’s Professional Development Book Club will feature a special “Meet the Author” session. Attendees will have the unique opportunity to engage directly with Shari J. Goodwin, author of Reinventing Greatness: Leading Yourself & Others Through Change with Confidence & Trust. Shari will share insights from her work and participate in a discussion about leading through change with confidence and trust.

Description: In Reinventing Greatness, Goodwin shares fresh insights on the reinvention process as she guides Lemon Squeezy, a winning ex-racehorse, into a new career. His path parallels the issues we all face when undergoing a reinvention in business or life. Goodwin clarifies the complex journey of change and offers practical steps and personal, profound stories that showcase her expertise and deep understanding of the topic.

Whether you’re leading yourself or a team through change, this book will help you:

• Step into the high-impact zone
• Trust and be trusted
• Make great decisions
• Lead with clarity and confidence
• Achieve your big goal

This book is a must-read for leaders everywhere and anyone navigating change.

About the Author



Shari is a business strategist, leadership coach, author, speaker, and horsewoman with over 25 years of experience, including starting four companies and serving as Director of Program Strategy for a global engineering firm. As a former environmental scientist for 20 years, she led the development of winning proposals valued to $65 million, negotiated and coordinated with team subcontractor firms to ensure superior competitive strategy, and supervised direct reports and matrixed teams of technical professionals. Under government contract, Shari led US Environmental Protection Agency regulatory development efforts to support the Clean Water Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, and Superfund contract laboratory program projects. She oversaw a multi-year, multi-million dollar project to mitigate impacts from cooling water intake structures at power plants and manufacturing facilities. As part of this effort, she conducted site visits to power plants throughout the country, prepared regulatory scoping documents, analyzed scientific data, evaluated technology controls and cost/benefit analyses, supported response to public comments efforts, and attended stakeholder meetings. Her team directed the development of technical support briefs, including engineering analyses, for federal court litigation including the US Supreme Court. Later, one of her start-up firms, an information technology staffing and consulting firm focused on web-based solutions, generated $2.1 million in its first year. In this position, Shari worked with small start-ups to develop staffing plans, build business capture strategies, and ensure timely product releases. She also coached hundreds in resume writing and interviewing techniques.

In 2009, she founded Jaeger2 to help business owners and leaders gain market position, navigate change, and achieve their big goals. Shari is author of two inspirational Amazon best-sellers, Reinventing Greatness, and Take the Reins! 7 Secrets to Inspired Leadership. Her 2022 TEDx talk, “How to Activate Your Invisible Superpower,” has been called “epic.” Shari’s horse experience is extensive. At her farm, she operated a premier horse boarding and training facility, worked to rescue and rehabilitate ex-racehorses, and dabbled in breeding. She was also a competitive rider. All of her horses now assist her as “equine coaches,” expediting client transformation for powerful and immediate results.


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