Sherri McArdle is Co-CEO. She is a dynamic leader, practitioner, author and speaker with over 20 years of experience working with leaders to help them achieve the clarity that enables meaningful and lasting change.
A stimulating strategic thinking and change partner, coach and consultant with CEOs and senior leaders, Sherri co-creates ways they can increase their results and turn their vision into a sustainable reality. She collaborates on new approaches to whole systems change and building organizational capacity.
Sherri is passionate about the power of great teams who can design and execute strategy that aligns organizational behaviors. She is also passionate about nurturing a culture of encouragement and innovation. She applies the same passion in her leadership of McArdle Ramerman & Co.
Sherri’s experience includes consulting within a broad range of public, private, family-owned and not-for-profit organizations. Clients describe Sherri as engaging, insightful and trusted. She catalyzes leaders to speak the truth, challenge assumptions and broaden perspectives. Sherri and her team are respected colleagues for their emergent and self-organizing designs and effective applications. Some of those experiences are shared in the book she co-wrote with Jim Ramerman, "Why Dogs Wag Their Tails: Lessons we can learn about work, joy and life."
Sherri has a business degree from St. John’s University and has done post-graduate work in business strategy and development (University of Chicago), organizational and family systems theory (Georgetown Family Center), as well as in counseling (SUNY Brockport and Unity Hospital). She also completed the Leadership Coaching Certificate program at Georgetown University. She is a Professional Certified Coach through a credentialing process with the International Coach Federation.
Sherri is on the faculty of the Leadership Learning Collaborative, an organization formed by McArdle Ramerman & Co. and University of Rochester’s Warner Center. She teaches regularly in the Leadership Coaching Course.
Family and business relationships synergize for Sherri; her husband Terry is Chief Operating Officer and a coach/consultant at McArdle Ramerman & Co. Sherri and Terry co-manage an active household of two adult children, Rachel and Matthew and three dogs, Scout, Sophie and Wasabi. Somehow, Sherri finds time for her creative outlets of writing, cooking, painting, gardening and design.
Life as Co-CEO: QAs
"Know what’s important to you personally and professionally. What are you passionate about? What are your best skills and competencies? How will you bring out the best in people and yourself? What would you like your business to look like and to accomplish over time?
"Most important in starting a business is a realistic plan. It needs to reflect the realities of the marketplace; required investments; and what it takes to build functional awareness of their brand..." Click here for more.
Entreprenurial blood
"When I was 12, my parents sat me down. They had something important to tell me. I thought my mother was going to say she was pregnant. Instead, they told me that my father had decided to leave a safe but despised job to become an entrepreneur. It was a decision that changed our lives. (Click here for the rest of Sherri's story)
Putting time on your side
"How many times have we heard ourselves say, “I’m too busy for that…,” or “Sorry I’m late, I got tied up?” I know I have my share of those moments, and have been stepping up my approaches to the issue. I’ve discovered that my organization’s strategy has a role in my own solutions. (Click here for "Who manages my time?")