IdeaShape Leadership
Pam Fox Rollin
Principal & Executive Coach
Pam Fox Rollin coaches executives and teams to lead even more effectively at companies throughout the Bay Area and across the world.
Drawing on 20 years of experience in strategy consulting, management education, team building, and leadership development, Pam is known as a dynamic speaker and valuable thought-partner to people leading their organizations through complex change.
- Coaches and consults with CXO through Director levels in technology, consulting, healthcare, government, and NGOs. Pam works across functions with particular depth in coaching CMOs and their teams.
- Guides operating leaders and internal OD in designing and implementing programs that enable people at all levels to embrace and deliver strategic change.
- Facilitates team building by helping members make the most of strengths and differences to achieve high performance, and helps business units and senior teams onboard new leaders successfully.
Pam’s IdeaShape clients in the Bay Area and beyond include Accenture, Autodesk, Blue Shield of CA, eBay, Genentech/Roche, LinkedIn, Charles Schwab, Verizon, and a variety of small and mid-size companies. Before founding IdeaShape in 1999, Pam guided executives of healthcare and financial service companies through major strategic change and team building efforts with Accenture Strategic Services and Bain & Company; clients included C-level executives at United Health Group, Kaiser Permanente, and Anthem BCBS.
Pam is recognized internationally as an expert in using assessments including the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI) and various 360 feedback instruments. In 2005, she was the keynote speaker for the bi-annual conference of the Association for Psychological Type, the professional organization for Myers-Briggs. Pam facilitated for 10 years a global professional learning community for coaches who use personality type. She is frequently invited to speak on her research into how leaders of different types develop emotional intelligence and leadership. Pam’s depth in Myers-Briggs and other psychological models enables her to customize her coaching and team building for extraordinary effectiveness. Additionally, Pam co-hosts Weekly Leader, a podcast on leadership research and practice.
Pam earned an MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, where she later consulted for eight years as a Guest Fellow and Master Coach. She has been Senior Facilitator for several courses, including the class alumni rate most valuable: Interpersonal Dynamics. She has also served as a featured lecturer and facilitator for executive education. Pam holds a Bachelor’s with Highest Honors in Organization Studies from the University of California, Davis.
With a deep commitment to community service, Pam has served on boards and led initiatives for Bay Area organizations in food banking, women’s health, and leadership development.
Pam’s book, 42 Rules for Your New Leadership Role: The Manual They Didn’t Hand You When You Made VP, Director, or Manager, (May 2011) made Amazon’s Top 10 in Management & Leadership and is being hailed as the essential pocket guide for leaders.