Shannon is an accredited Coactive Coach from The Coaches Training Institute (CTI). She has completed the CTI fundamental training, certification, and assisted training workshops. She also volunteers as a crisis line counselor.

Shannon has a degree from University of California San Diego in Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts. This involved classes ranging from classic art and art history to HTML. Java programming, and Calculus. Not many art students do well in Java and Calculus, so she was one of only a handful to graduate from the program in her school year.

Shannon has associate degrees in business and economics, and has had her own business as a piano teacher. She has traveled around the world, is a classically trained artist, and helped found an intentional community.

As a coach, Shannon is intuitive, insightful, and thought provoking for her clients. She helps her clients gain self understanding, a greater ability to do what they want to do in life, and a greater capacity to slow down and enjoy what they achieve.