Leadership training
business transformation
About Turquoise Consulting
Turquoise Consulting is comprised of a network of professionals and trainers with deep knowledge in leadership development, team building, innovation, human-centered design and design thinking, business development, change management and executive coaching. We are entrepreneurs + artists, mavericks + misfits, we have BAs, BFAs, MAs, MFAs, MBAs from America’s top universities.
Degrees aside, we have equally impressive victories – and battle scars – from the startup and corporate world and top honors from world-class institutions for our work. Our old-fashioned manners make us a delight to work with.
Companies Call Turquoise When They Want to:
01 Identify
conflict and areas for growth while paving a way to create connective tissue among individuals and teams.
02 Jump-Start Change
and create momentum to overcome both stagnancy and complacency.
03 Intelligently Adapt
to new technologies that shatter traditional frameworks through which products and services are created and delivered.
04 Nurture Risk-Taking
which becomes possible when you reframe failure as a part of any process of change. Curiosity and experimentation replace fear, which blocks creativity and innovation.
07 Deploy
decentralized models and new ways of working and still maintain transparent communication, team camaraderie and collaboration best practices.
05 Successfully Navigate
dynamic change, competitive threats, socio-economic shifts, regulatory turmoil, crises and other disruptions that permeate the way people live, work, think and feel.
08 Develop
dynamic tools to resolve internal conflicts, remove perceived obstacles and roadblocks, inspire teams and extract order out of chaos.
06 Effectively Scale
steep learning curves that impact structures, processes and behaviors.
09 Partner
with an organization to remove unforeseen challenges that appear soon after the launch of a company transformation.
About The Founder
Turquoise Consulting was founded by Shana Dressler, who has dedicated the last decade to empowering executives, 21st-century entrepreneurial problem-solvers and creative professionals who have launched businesses, built hardware and software products, and scaled social impact organizations. As the Executive Director of Google’s 30 Weeks, Shana ran an incubator for creative entrepreneurs that Fast Company named as one of the World’s Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in design. In that role she helped founders-to-be shape nights and weekend passion projects into financially viable businesses. Part of their training included how to build cross-cultural high performing teams with diverse skill sets to collaborate during the early days of a startup where pressure is high and days are long. As a business consultant, Shana has helped entrepreneurs develop unified mission and visions, understand the power of operations and create sound, strategic plans in order attract angel and venture capital.
To keep her feet firmly planted in innovation, she mentors startup founders at incubators and accelerators. Some of her current and past collaborations include providing training and/or 1-on-1 coaching with entrepreneurs in programs such as: the MIT Solve Challenge, Cornell Tech, NYU Steinhardt EdTech Hyper Accelerator, D&AD Impact Accelerator, the NYCEDC’s Futureworks incubator, the New Museum’s NEW INC Incubator, Made in NY Media Center, Brooklyn Navy Yard Accelerator and others.
Shana is also the co-founder of the NYC Innovation Collective, a 501(c)(6) nonprofit that convenes and supports 100+ incubators, accelerators and innovation programs throughout New York.
Shana received her coaching and leadership training from the Co-Active Training Institute, The Leadership Circle and the THNK School of Creative Leadership. She is an Aspen Institute Scholar, a member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, and a judge for The Webby Awards. In 2014 she became a Delegate to the United Nations Foundation Global Accelerator which brought together “100 of the world’s top entrepreneurs to work together with policy leaders on global issues.” In 2015, Shana was honored by the World CSR Congress as one of the 50 Most Talented Social Innovators.
Shana has given keynote talks and led workshops at conferences including Fast Company’s Innovation Festival, Harvard Social Enterprise Conference, HarvardxDesign, A Better World By Design, Adobe’s 99u, the Social Good Summit, the Disruptive Innovation Festival, Core77 and many others.
