Linda Shaffer-Vanaria

Linda Shaffer-Vanaria is a seasoned EDGE Performance Coach, Consultant, and Thought Leader, bringing over 25 years of experience to her work with leaders and organizations worldwide. She has coached more than 2,000 leaders, ranging from frontline supervisors to C-level executives, helping them refine their leadership impact across various organizational levels. With this broad coaching experience, Linda enables leaders to recognize how they are perceived within their organizations, allowing them to make strategic, decisive shifts in their approaches.

Linda's coaching expertise focuses on guiding leaders to connect and enhance best practices, navigate competing priorities, and optimize performance amid complexity, ambiguity, and high-stakes decision-making.

Linda's extensive background includes a distinguished career as a U.S. Navy Test Pilot, Squadron Commanding Officer, and Director of the U.S. Navy's Leader Training Unit. Under her command, her squadron received an operational excellence award for the first time in its 21-year history, and Linda was honored as one of five Pacific Fleet finalists for the prestigious Vice Admiral Stockdale Leadership Award.