Career History

In addition to her work at The ExCo Group, Shafer has trained more than 1,200 consultants, executive mentors, and change agents in values-based assessments and strength-based methodologies worldwide.

As the co-founder and partner of Richard Barrett and Associates (now Barrett Values Center), she specializes in values assessment surveys for organizations, which provide an actionable roadmap that becomes an integral part of a leader’s or organization’s development plan that supports their business strategy. The survey instruments have been used to measure the values of more than 6000 organizations and 3000 leaders in 80 countries and are available in more than 50 languages. She co-developed the LVA (Leadership Values Assessment), an instrument that helps individuals define their core values to accelerate their transformation to achieve higher performance levels.

Shafer started her career in the aerospace industry as a project engineer and manager at Airco Temescal and then advanced to program engineer and manager of high-tech subsystems for satellites and military aircraft at Hughes Aircraft and TRW for 12 years.

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She holds a bachelor of engineering from Vanderbilt University. In addition, Shafer serves as a senior mediator for the County of Hawaii. For the past twenty years, she has fuelled her lifelong passion for golf by leading an annual week-long golf program in Scotland called “Fairway to Heaven.”