Alanna Shaikh – Coaching, Writing, Speaking, Global Health

What I Do

I’m a nonprofit leader, a writer, a keynote speaker, an executive coach, and an occasional poet. My superpowers are building teams, strategic planning, and making complex ideas understandable to everyone.

Leader

I have more than twenty years of experience in mission-driven organizations. I’ve built and led large teams across countries, managed high value portfolios, and helped organizations find their futures. I’ve worked closely with governments in challenging situations. And I design donor communications that consistently lead to funding.

Coach

As a coach, I ask powerful questions to help individuals and groups uncover their own truth. I help people love their work and find work they love.

As a facilitator, I create in-person, hybrid, and online events that effectively bring people together for a common purpose – strategic planning, strengthening teams, supercharging collaboration.

Communicator

I speak in person and virtually, to large events and small. Recent engagements have included a online keynote at a major university and continuing education workshops for a government agency. All my speaking work goes through my agent, Karen O’Donnell at Chartwell Speakers. Karen@chartwellspeakers.com

As a writer, I turn complex ideas into clear, understandable content. I write long-form and short-form content in a wide range of mediums: nonprofit reporting like annual reports and donor-focused content, published journalism, essays, a book, social media of all kinds, academic articles, and even poetry in literary magazines.

Global
Health

I have more than twenty years of experience in global health. I’ve built and led large teams across countries, managed high value portfolios, and built my expertise in health system strengthening. I’ve worked closely with host country governments in challenging situations. And I write proposals that consistently get funded.

Coaching

As a leadership coach, I ask powerful questions to help individuals and groups uncover their own truth. I help people love their work and find work they love.

Selected Poems

Egret, in Eclectica Bitter Herbs, in Gordon Square Review Gravity, in Fatal Flaw Roosters, at Brain Mill press to my imaginary daughter, at Mason Jar Press Roots, or the Persistence of Fruit Trees, and Ordinary in Elevation Review.

Keynote Speaking

I speak in person and virtually, to large events and small. Recent engagements have included a online keynote on COVID-19 and continuing education workshops for CDC. All my speaking work goes through my agent, Karen O’Donnell at Chartwell Speakers. Karen@chartwellspeakers.com

Get In Touch

I’m always happy to connect.

Want to chat?

You can schedule a 15-minute phone call to learn more about what I do.