Dave draws on his extensive leadership experience to mentor CEOs and business owners throughout the Puget Sound and West Coast.

He helps Excell Members gain clarity, focus and breakthrough to achieve their dreams, by increasing their awareness about what is holding their company back and what will propel it to even greater heights. Through their work together, Excell Members learn concrete steps that support achieving their goals. Some of his clients hire Dave to roll up his sleeves and work alongside them to accomplish those goals.

In addition to individual work with companies from San Francisco to Seattle, Dave is currently CEO and Group Leader for his Seattle based business, Excell Puget Sound.

Shannon Bruce, CPCC, PCC is a Catalyst for Conscious Culture Change who uses her skills as a Team Coach, Facilitator and Trainer to save companies time, money and pain caused by unresolved conflicts and team dynamics that hinder results. As the Owner and CEO of StoryBridge™, she helps companies rewrite the story of ineffective communication and silos among teams to create an inspired story of team collaboration and peak performance.

Shannon’s greatest strength is her ability to create a safe environment for individuals and teams to address “what’s not being said”. With a unique blend of compassion coupled with truth telling, she brings to light the unconscious negative thought patterns that hinder relationships and performance. Through active listening and evocative questions, Shannon reveals the unhealthy engagement styles to redesign new ways of interacting in an energized and positive manner. The end result is highly engaged employees and teams that know how-to effectively communication and handle conflict in a healthy way for an improvement in both top-line and bottom-line performance.

Shannon utilizes tools that produce transformational and sustainable results for her clients. Using the Get Clarity™ “Shift to Above-the-Line Culture” training, Shannon is improving performance and the quality of leadership and team dynamics as a result of changing negative thought patterns that drain vital energy. With the Team Diagnostic Assessment™ she is able to cut to the heart of the matter as the team identifies the dynamics of the team which accelerates results and provides a strengths based approach toward crucial conversations.

One example of her proven track record with clients pertains to her work with several health care teams and a Call Center Department in the Pacific Northwest which resulted in customer service level increases of 26%, reduced absenteeism that translated into a decrease of call wait times of 39 seconds and overall team improvements of 35% for positivity and 36% for productivity.

Shannon has 24+ years of experience as a CPA, Auditor, regional and corporate Operations Manager and Entrepreneur. She holds a B.A. in Business from Washington State University and received her coach training from the world renowned Coaches Training Institute. She is credentialed through the International Coach Federation as a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) and has over 2,500 hours of working with Executives and Teams. She also works as a mentor/supervisor for coaches going through the credentialing process as a result of her passion for coaching. She is an authorized and licensed facilitator of The Get Clarity™ Shift to Above-the-Line Culture training and of Team Coaching International using the Team Diagnostic Assessment™ to accelerate the high performance of leaders, teams and organizations.

Living in Bremerton, WA with her teen-aged daughter, Shannon enjoys reading, hiking, and spending time quality time with others building relationships and community.