Sharon Ehrlich (ERR-lick) is proud, Bronx-raised native New Yorker.    Sharon’s business career started in the health care industry where she spent nearly a decade in hospital administration at a major NYC hospital.     A love story led to her permanently relocate to Austria. With this move she pivoted her career to IT working for IBM for over a decade and led teams throughout Europe, Turkey, and Russia.     Sharon followed her passion for educating future leaders and spent 14 years as an Adjunct Professor of Business Management at a local university.   Sharon’s interest in professional development resulted in a career shiftto Sales Readiness and Enablement where she provided strategic leadership for large multinational organizations at both the European and global executive level.   Sharon is a passionate advocate for female empowerment, diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging and has been invited to share her views and lived experiences as a keynote speaker, podcast guest and webinar panelist.   Sharon is the founder of Living While Leading, a premier executive coaching service which focuses on supporting women IT executives in their quest to optimize their lives so that they can live and work authentically and in alignment with their priorities and values.    She also hosts the Living While Leading Podcast, a weekly podcast which focuses on topics related to women in leadership and female empowerment.    Sharon resides in Vienna with her husband and has an adult son.   In this episode, Sharon highlights and expounds on how she works with executive women who want to either transition to a completely new area of their existing careers, move from corporate work to the nonprofit sector or those who would like to become more impactful and present as it relates to their increased inner satisfaction.  Through her work with executive women, Sharon has noticed a recurring theme — that women universally have a habit of putting everything and everyone else ahead of themselves. These are all areas that Sharon can assist you in addressing so that you are maximizing joy, comfort, advancement and self-awareness. She does this primarily through her 5-month Living While Leading Four Step System.    During the interview, Sharon provides several examples of she has done this herself, along with identifying and exploring new areas that ultimately brought her new growth and fulfillment opportunities, both internally and externally.    If you would like to connect with Sharon through an exploratory session, she can be contacted through her website www.livingwhileleading.com or via email [email protected]