Sonya Shelton worked at Disney during a shareholder revolt by a family member that she compares to a corporate divorce. The conflict damaged the company's culture and her own health, pushing her to start Executive Leadership Consulting to help other organizations fix their leadership and culture problems.
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Prior to starting Executive Leadership Consulting, I worked for the Walt Disney Company. And I worked there at a very interesting time when we had a member of the Disney family leading a shareholder revolt against our CEO. So I really saw the impact of culture. It was like a company going through a divorce. Right? So a company that's known for having an amazing, amazing culture, and then going through this event, which is like a divorce. And I saw the impact not only to what happened with the company, but to my own personal leadership and my physical health and my mental health as a result of those things. And then I really got passionate about having an impact in organizations as a result of that, like the. The importance of culture. And that's why. That's why I started the company.