About ETA

Our mission is to help leaders have the greatest impact on their teams and their organizations.  We believe that having the right people in the right roles, at the right times, doing the right things, in the right way drives optimal business results.

Leaders benefit from having trusted advisors, knowing that they cannot accomplish their goals alone.  We appreciate that being a leader is challenging and often lonely.  Even the best leaders need help to achieve their goals and we are uniquely positioned to provide assistance.

We understand human behavior, performance, complex business environments and competing agendas.  The time we invest thinking about and working with leaders and their organizations positions us to have valuable insight into how to help them be most successful.

We respect the difficult position leaders are in and we work with them to help solve their most important people-related problems.  We do not judge.  Our role is to provide a point of view but never to confuse who is leading the company.  It as a privilege to serve our clients.

 
“Sheila has been providing consulting services to me for years in multiple organizations. From direct coaching, to talent assessments and on boarding processes, her expertise, advice and information has been extremely valuable. That value turns into ‘real’ business outcomes and a better culture to do business in. She is quick to understand business situations and offer tools to solve problems. She is a trusted confidant and partner.”
— Dan Finke, President & COO EmblemHealth
 

Sheila Kampa, Ph.D.

Sheila Kampa has 17+ years of professional experience evaluating and developing senior executives.  She divides her work between small companies (some private equity backed) and large corporations. 

Sheila began her career at RHR International where she evaluated and coached CEOs and members of their Executive Management Teams in midsize to Fortune 50 organizations.  In addition, she helped to develop a proprietary approach to on-boarding and integrating executives into new roles.

Sheila then moved to Cerberus Capital Management, where she focused her efforts on leadership assessment across the deal life-cycle, gaining experience across financial markets and industries.  In her role, she worked extensively with portfolio companies and their leadership teams.

Most recently, Sheila was an associate partner at ghSmart, where her work focused on the assessment and development of portfolio company leadership teams as well as CEO succession planning within large corporations.  Her clients included leading private equity investors, hedge fund managers, start-up entrepreneurs and Fortune 100 executives.

Sheila has published extensively on executive coaching and executive integration and is considered a thought leader in both practice areas.  She has sat on the Board of The American Psychological Association’s Society for Consulting Psychology and holds the rank of Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology at the Gordon F. Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies.

Sheila holds a doctorate in Counseling Psychology from Western Michigan University with an emphasis in consultation and organizational development.  She lives in New York City.

Sheila leverages a network of other seasoned professionals with Ph.D.s and M.B.A.s as necessary to ensure the right team is in place to serve client needs.

 
“Sheila has a unique and solid track record for coaching and leading senior executives and providing counsel to remove personality and capability blockers within organizations. Sheila is not afraid to speak her mind while respecting organization protocal. This ability to speak directly and canididly at the C-Suite level is critical and highly valued.”
— Peter Kirchof, Senior Operating Executive, Cerberus Capital Management
 

Smart, G., & Kampa, S., (2009).  The importance of talent in business.  Invited Presentation for the Young Presidents Organization (YPO), Louisville, KY.

Kampa, S., (2007).  Women in Leadership.  Invited presentation at Pepsi Bottling Group, New York, NY.

Kampa, S. & Schalm, R., (2006). Executive integration: A tested process for increasing executive retention. Presentation at the American Psychological Association Annual Convention, New Orleans, LA.

Kampa, S. (2005). Executive integration: How to accelerate new leader success. Presentation sponsored by RHR International, New York, New York.

Kampa, S. (2004). Measuring Consulting Outcomes – Paradigms & Potentials: A Look at Executive Coaching. Presentation at the American Psychological Association Annual Convention, Honolulu, HI.

Kampa, S. (2003). Executive coaching: A comparison to a general consultation and general coaching model. Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research. Presentation at the American Psychological Association Annual Convention, Chicago, IL.

Kampa, S. & White, R. (2002). The effectiveness of executive coaching: What we know and what we still need to know. In R. Lowman (ed.), The Handbook of Organizational Consulting Psychology (pp.139-156). San Francisco, CA: Josey-Bass.

Kampa-Kokesch,S. & Anderson, M. (2001). Executive coaching: A comprehensive review of the literature and comparison to a general consultation and general coaching model. Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research, 53(4), 205-228.