Rise Leadership Program

Before launching Pitts Leadership, Shamis served as Chief Operating Officer for start-up technology companies in the education, music, and beauty verticals. Prior to working with start-ups, she performed mission-driven work in both elementary and higher education, allowing her to support the educational growth and personal development of young women and men of color. Shamis has her MBA from Cornell University’s Johnson School and her BA from the University of Pennsylvania.

With her latest book, she has extended her experience watching men and especially women transition to more senior roles where the team knows more than the leader. This can be a trap for expert executors transitioning to roles with greater span of responsibility. You Can’t Know It All: Leading in an Age of Deep Expertise explains why this is an issue, how it impacts performance and what to do about it.

Prior to Forté, Amy was the Director of Professional Education and Training at the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), managing a portfolio of onsite and online conferences, symposia and training events. Prior to that, Amy was the Director of the MBA Program Office and Student Services at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Throughout her career, Amy has also worked as an educational consultant, providing clients with program design and delivery, assessment and strategy input, and workshop facilitation and leadership program development. Amy holds a Master of Education from the University of Maryland, and a Master of Government and a B.A. in Communications from the University of Pennsylvania. She lives in Philadelphia with her human, canine, and feline daughters.

Coaching with Ghita produces leaders across industries and beyond who make bold commitments and take skillful action to create the results they care about. She stands for her clients’ constant expansion as it relates to their external accomplishments, resilience and leadership presence, as well as to their capacity for fulfillment and connection. Simply put, Ghita is a coach with an eye for excellence in execution and a consultant with her pulse on humanity.

Born in Fes, Morocco, Ghita moved to Paris, France at the age of 18 to attend ESSEC Business School. She started her career as a management consultant at Accenture where she led business and organizational transformations for multinational companies in financial services, consumer products and healthcare. She put down roots in New York City ten years ago after having lived in Paris, Lausanne and Milan. Being an expatriate has initiated her into a lifelong path of understanding and navigating how fast-paced, ever-changing environments can catalyze transformation. She holds an MSc in Management from ESSEC Business School in Paris and is a graduate of Accomplishment Coaching Coaches Training Program in New York.Ghita envisions a world where leaders land deeply in their truest essence while also rising to greater levels of excellence, impact and contribution.

Areas of focus: Executive Coaching, Leadership Development, Team Development, Transformation, Design Thinking, Facilitation, DEIB, Community.

The combination of experiences as a leader at The Northern Trust Bank, Kellogg School of Management and NYU Stern School of Business, has given her the ability to understand both sides of the desk when an individual is seeking a change. During her career she has worked with individuals seeking to start a company, manage change, become more effective leaders, move within their current employer, make a move to a new employer, or pivot to a new industry or job function. Her role is to help you peel back all the layers of experiences and information you carry and get to the core of what's important to you. Her sole mission is to coach and celebrate your successes.

She is accredited in the Strengths Profile assessment instrument and she uses this to help individuals and teams achieve success.

Roaxanne is a member of the Forté Board of Directors