Shannon Curley Tower

About Shannon Curley Tower

Shannon Curley Tower partners with non-profit leaders to maximize performance, impacting the missions of their organizations. Shannon holds the Professional Certified Coach (PCC) certification through the International Coaching Federation, and she is a certified coach through the Leadership Coaching for Organizational Performance program at American University in Washington, DC. She has spent the past 25 years working with non-profit organizations as a leader, board member, fundraiser, consultant, and coach.Shannon partners with coaching clients to establish goals and uncover roadblocks, helping them move into action. She is certified by Target Training International in DISC, a behavioral style assessment, that she brings to her work with individuals and teams. She believes coaching is a key investment that improves client’s productivity, increases confidence, and develops and enhances leadership skills. Before founding Tower Philanthropy – a coaching and consulting firm – in January 2020, Shannon was a vice president and principal consultant at Gobel Group, a healthcare philanthropy consulting firm where she worked with hospitals across the country to build philanthropy programs, served as campaign council, and provided strategic consulting to leaders and frontline staff. Prior to this role, she directed philanthropy programs at Johns Hopkins Medicine and Cleveland Clinic. Shannon started her career in fundraising roles at the Land Trust Alliance, the Paralyzed Veterans of America, and Case Western University School of Law. Shannon has a BA in English from Miami University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Maryland. In she co-founded the Foundation for Community Betterment and served as an active board member until 2015 when she became emeritus; she now serves as a pro bono coach for the organization. She serves on the board of trustees for the Key School of Annapolis,

Experience

1. Member Board of Trustees

   The Key School

   Sep 2022 — Present · Annapolis, MD, US

Education

• University of Maryland

  M.F.A., Creative Writing: Poetry

  1997 — 1999

• Miami University

  B.A., English, Music

  1993 — 1997

• American University

  Certification, Leadership Coaching for Organizational Performance

  2020 — 2020