Founded in 2002 by Lori Hanau, The Shared Leadership Company guides executives, organizations, and networks in transforming workplace culture by sharing leadership and power through their proprietary Shared Leadership Framework™ and Shared Leadership Journey practices. As a Certified B Corporation, the company challenges the dominant paradigm that values production over people, roles over relationships, and separation over systems thinking, instead helping organizations build healthy, sustainable cultures rooted in clear values of equality, equity, and fundamental inclusivity. Their approach recognizes that beliefs, principles, and values must infuse the actual systems and structures forming any business foundation, and that true power-sharing begins with meeting as equals in our shared humanity before relating through roles, status, and expertise. For over 20 years, they’ve coached and mentored leaders in co-creating thriving, resilient systems and innovative workplace cultures that recognize and activate the potential and wisdom within individuals and organizations. The company measures its impact across five areas—community, environment, governance, workers, and customers—demonstrating commitment to humanizing workplaces through authentic practice rather than superficial gestures.
Why this matters: The Shared Leadership Company demonstrates that genuinely transforming organizational culture requires fundamentally redistributing power and reconceiving leadership as shared capacity rather than individual authority. Their framework offers practical methodology for moving beyond hierarchical control toward cultures where everyone’s humanity and wisdom are honored, proving that organizations can be both more humane and more effective when they operate from principles of equality, care, and systems thinking rather than domination and extraction.