MASTER CERTIFIED EXECUTIVE COACH, ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGIST, RESEARCHER, AND CEO OF CONNECTED EC
Jamie brings a rare blend of science, strategy, and lived leadership experience to her work with CEOs and executive teams navigating growth, complexity, and cultural transformation.
With a PhD in Positive Organizational Psychology, an MBA, and a Master of Science in Information Technology, Jamie bridges rigorous research with real-world execution. Since 1998, she has developed high-performing teams—first as a corporate executive inside large-scale organizations and now as a trusted external advisor to senior leaders across industries.
After experiencing executive burnout herself, Jamie became committed to reshaping how leaders lead—so they can drive exceptional performance without sacrificing their vitality. Her work integrates well-being science, positive psychology, and systems-level leadership to help organizations build cultures where people can burn bright and go the distance without burning out.
She is the bestselling author of Brilliant: Be the Leader Who Shines Brightly Without Burning Out and the forthcoming book Connected Culture: The New Science for Thriving Teams and Cultures, which uncovers what it truly takes to build high-performing teams where well-being and performance coexist. She is also the founder of the Leader and Organization Vitality (LOV) Center, a research institute that advances the science of leadership vitality, culture, and performance and bridges the gap between research and real-world practice.
APPROACH + PHILOSOPHY
Jamie believes sustainable high performance is the result of deliberate leadership design, not personal sacrifice. Her work sits at the intersection of leadership science, vitality research, and executive performance, helping leaders understand that how they show up, physically, emotionally, cognitively, and relationally, directly shapes the culture they create and the results they drive. While most executive coaching focuses on strategy and skills, Jamie goes deeper. She integrates mindset, energy, clarity, and behavior to help leaders expand their capacity, regulate under pressure, and sustain high performance over time. Because leadership isn’t just cognitive — it’s physiological, relational, and systemic. She founded Connected EC on a bold belief: thriving cultures are not built by exhausted leaders. Organizations don’t need tougher executives; they need regulated, clear, connected ones. Her work helps leaders create environments where excellence and vitality rise together, where teams perform at a high level without paying a burnout tax.
EDUCATION
- PhD, Positive Organizational Psychology — Claremont Graduate University
- MBA, University of Denver
- MSIT, University of Denver
- BS, University of Colorado
CERTIFICATIONS
- Coaches Training Institute — MCC, CPCC
- Shift Positive 360® certified; Shift Positive Live certified
- PrinciplesUs
- Insights Discovery Profiles
- MBTI
- DiSC Certified
- Certified Nutrition Therapy Practitioner (CNTP) — Nutrition Therapy Institute
- Project Management Professional (PMP) — Project Management Institute
- Principles 5Cs Assessment
Jamie Shapiro is a leading authority on connecting wellness with leadership performance. Having experienced executive burnout, she understands the incredible pressure executives face in their life and the difficulty in staying connected to professional and personal goals in demanding environments.
Jamie has been coaching and developing high performing teams since 1998 in executive roles within large-scale corporate companies. Jamie, through her corporate career, realized the toll that high pressure, stressful and demanding roles can take. She left the corporate world with a mission to make changes for leaders and organizations.
Jamie has both an MBA and a Masters in Information Technology and is certified as both an executive coach and a nutritionist. Her vision is to bring a new form of holistic coaching to top-level leaders. Jamie’s company, ConnectedEC, helps people develop a keen awareness of how both their health and mindset have an effect on their capacity to reliably tap into their leadership capabilities. Jamie has put the worlds of executive coaching and wellness together to give people a new approach to leadership, health and outstanding personal, professional and organizational performance.
Jamie lives in Longmont, Colorado, with her husband, Sam, their two children, Jack and Ella, and their dogs, Diesel and Luna.
To invite Jamie to present a keynote, 1/2 day, full day or multi-day with your organization, please call 303-478-6652 or email us today! .
