Marisa Santoro, a former Wall Street IT executive with a 21-year corporate career is the founder of In Our Shoes. She is a corporate leadership trainer, keynote speaker, career coach and business author with McGraw Hill.

 Her expertise in leadership and professional development, as well as effective business communication, has been brought in to support business leaders across industries at organizations such as Pfizer, Merck, American Express, UBS, Anheuser-Busch, Allianz Global Investors, Sony Music, S&P Global, State Farm, Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), New York Council of Nonprofits, Women in Tech International (WITI), Aetna Healthcare, New York University (NYU), NYU Langone Medical Center, New York and New Jersey municipalities and many more.

 She is also an honoree of the Woman of Influence award from New York Business Journal and BizWomen.com for her years of mentoring and coaching midcareer leaders, executives, healthcare professionals, and sales leaders to achieve higher levels of influence.

 She writes a career column for American City Business Journals, covering their how-to career and business strategy sections, with articles published across 44 cities in the United States.

Marisa is a certified Success Principles trainer of Jack Canfield, the global bestselling author of 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' and 'The Success Principles' books. 

She teaches professionals how to achieve success across all areas in their lives. These success principles are the same personal development principles which continues to help hundreds of thousands of people achieve improved health, wealth and quality relationships.

Marisa's TED talk, “Speaking Without Apology,” guides on how to detach from language that feeds into the “Sorry Syndrome” and make subtle tweaks in your speech to springboard you from diluting your value to spotlighting your assets immediately.

She guides professionals how to reclaim their confidence, tap into their instincts and embrace their inner dialogue using proven tactical tools, and strategies in proven step-by-step career leadership programs coaching on ways to authentically build trust as leaders and advance in their careers.

Meet our team of purpose-driven facilitators and coaches

Bill is an NYU certified Executive and ICF Certified Coach with 25 years of solid business experience in financial services. He is also a former line of business Relationship Manager with over 13 years of experience in all areas of Organizational Development and Employee Training. Bill’s particular passion is helping people to achieve career prosperity that contribute to dazzling business results. His skills include facilitation, needs assessment, instructional design, performance management.

Cat is a  Career Leadership facilitator and ICF Certified Coach empowering professionals with clarity and guidance to identify career aspirations and seizing viable opportunities for expansion, growth and personal development. An experienced career counselor with a keen attention and active listening skills providing a safe space for self-discovery, fostering a partnership to develop and create a clear path forward towards improvement and personal achievement for the highest potential. She is also a former leader in sales & marketing and real estate.

Cathy is an Executive Leadership, Facilitator and Career Coach with 20+ years of coaching experience. Skilled in coaching individuals at all levels and functions with deep expertise working with executives and individuals with technical backgrounds. An ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), Cathy is known for her direct yet positive approach and has a reputation for being empathetic without being soft, challenging and enabling clients by holding them accountable for their actions in support of career goals.

Shampa is a senior learning and development leader with fifteen years of experience in  the corporate tech sector and DiSC Certified Facilitator. Her career focus has been designing global employee trainings, leadership learning, driving company-level employee engagement, and culture transformation. She is passionate and skilled in gap analysis, leadership development, company culture transformation, talent development, and succession planning. 

Jeanette is our customer care liaison, DiSC and office administrator as well as our Zoom producer. Her focus is on providing top-level client support, assisting in all things that go on behind the scenes during our virtual facilitations and  keeping our content library structured and organized.

Lisa is a wine educator and  Italian culture teacher. She leads experiential wine classes for leadership offsites and retreats and brings a mosaic of art, history, cuisine and social connection to all of our programs. She has lived in Italy for nearly 10 years where she learned a deep appreciation for visiting vineyards around the world, poring over wine notes and regions.

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To empower and motivate professionals to own their authority and increase their impact and influence in their careers.

In Our Shoes is a corporate leadership  training and coaching practice helping professionals navigate their careers and maximize their personal performance for success.

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