Testimonials
“Shir has helped take our senior leadership team from zero to one. She’s acted as a team coach and guided us on the journey of overcoming our individual and collective challenges to become a high-performing team.
Shir brings a unique combination of people and general management skills.
She is excellent at building relationships, and trust. She helped create a roadmap toward a high-performing team
and then followed through, assisting our leaders with navigating along that journey. I would gladly recommend
Shir and would be delighted to work with her again in the future.”
Max Krasnykh | Group COO, co-CEO | Gett
“Shir has worked closely with me since the beginning of the year.
Unlike other organizational / management consultants I have met, Shir is different and more unique. She understands first-hand the challenges, pains and rewards of scale and growth as she has actually led those herself, and she relies on her leadership as a senior executive. She does not solely rely on methods / theories / models (although she is more than capable in those aspects as well) but rather more on her hands experience.
She focuses a lot on revealing blind spots and obstacles on the way to growth. With real care and even humor, s
he challenges, supports and helps drive meaningful development. I value her greatly, I love working with her and
I would highly recommend her.”
Uri Lichter |CEO | Intango
“Leading a company from a successful Start-up to a successful Scale-up is a thrilling and challenging journey,
and we at Workiz choose exceptional people to walk that journey with us. One of those people is Shir,
who has been advising the company and myself throughout our scale and growth.
She brings first-hand experience in the matters we face, having been there and done it herself.
Shir helps reach clarity and find answers in order to make tough decisions. And she creates a trustworthy
safe zone for discussion and support, which is often a needed break from a CEO’s chaotic reality.
I highly recommend Shir’s partnership and expertise to executives and companies going through scale.”
Didi (Adi) Azaria | CEO | Workiz
"If you’re looking to work with someone who can help you reach your (or your team’s) full potential, Shir is that person.
I've worked with Shir in both a personal capacity and as part of Gett's executive team, where she guided us through people aspects, helped us to see our blind spots, and ultimately brought us together as a team.
Aside from her professionalism, Shir is an exceptional person: kind, trustworthy, smart, and as sincere as they come.
I highly recommend working with Shir, regardless of your goals you’ll gain a true partner."
Itamar Fabian | CPO | Gett
“I have known Shir for many years, but have not had the chance to work with her until a few months ago,
when she has started advising Clarity and myself throughout the merging of our company.
Her work has had immediate impact and value. From talent retention to communications and change management,
Shir has guided us on tough organizational and HR related matters, managed various projects herself,
and most importantly, has built trusting relationships with everyone on the team.
As a CEO, I find Shir to be an extremely valuable, trusted and loyal partner. I look to her to help our company
go through the change and integration ahead of us successfully.“
Amir Leybovitch | CEO | Clarity Capital
“I feel privileged for having the chance to work with Shir. The last two years, Shir coached Gett's
COO leadership team. As a coach, she combines business experience with soft skills.
She soon became a trusted advisor to all of us & helped transform the team into a highly functional unit.
She is able to give each team member her full attention, to listen, to understand, to give advice, to consult,
and most importantly, to challenge us.
She has a strong ability to map an organization and its challenges and find creative and considered solutions to them.
Working with her and consulting with her about any issue is pleasant. It is rare to find someone
with such a combination of knowledge, experience, talent, and kindness. I wish to myself to be able
to use her advisory services again in the future.”
Dina Dembo-Orgil | CIO | Gett
“I have been working with Shir for the last 1.5 years, very quickly she has become my trusted advisor and friend
helping me navigate through turbulent times and deal with the leadership challenges that arise at times like that.
Her help spanned over multiple areas including: guidance and techniques on working with my senior leaders;
workshops on leadership, resilience and teambuilding; various ways to increase effective collaboration
with other leaders in the company; and many more.
I love Shir’s unique perspective on things, especially how our emotions play a part in our understanding of situations
which she brings from her past experience dealing with similar challenges.”
Yaki Zakai | CTO | Gett
“Shir has been consulting at Gett for almost a year now, and very soon after we started working together, I saw significant impact. Our coaching sessions focused mainly on executive presence, leadership seniority and communications, but also on the ongoing challenges of leading in a fast- growing culture.
Shir understands first-hand what it means to be a leader, so her effective advice relies on actual experience and valuable expertise. But she is not only a pro, she is also a pleasure to work with: trustworthy, optimistic, empowering and kind.
I am thankful for Shir’s guidance and highly recommend her to any company going through rapid growth and change.”
Vlad Branin | Director of Product | Gett
“I recommend Shir to anyone who is looking to grow, as a company, a team or a leader. She is a rare combination of knowledge, experience, talent and kindness. And if you get a chance to work with her, consider yourself lucky.
The impact that Shir has made on my career and my leadership is no less than invaluable. As a leader herself, a master in communications and an organizational expert, her guidance is priceless and accurate. I learned from her how to work with Americans and Israelis, how to lead without formal authority, and how to juggle multiple agendas and much more.
I cherish the connection we’ve made and literally cannot recommend her enough.”
Avishay Oshri | Senior Product Manager | Nielsen
“Shir has been a phenomenal source of guidance and support throughout our many years of work together.
In the fast-growing company we were, Shir built the infrastructure for our scale in many aspects, one of them was defining and training the company’s global leadership. I had the opportunity to develop my own career in R&D leadership roles, and Shir coached me through that development. She taught me build an effective and engaged software development group, retain talent, collaborate with peers and executives across cultures, and develop into senior leadership.
After being acquired by an American corporation, Pitney Bowes (PBI), Shir built and executed an integration plan for the Tel Aviv site, including culture alignment, retention plans, re-org of roles and responsibilities, transition of knowledge and more. Her efforts post-integration focused on connecting our local site and its leaders to the business goals and expectations of the global organization. She built relationships with different departments in the organization and worked to make sure Tel Aviv was recognized as a valuable team for Pitney Bowes. As a result of her work, over six years later,
we are indeed still valuable to the company’s global business, and well-integrated in it.
If your company needs to scale fast or transition fast, go through the challenging stretch pains of a growing business, engage the team and help them go beyond themselves - someone like Shir will make it possible and easier for you.
And challenges will not only become feasible, they will even be enjoyable, as she will always help you see the upside in anything you will need to go through.”
Eyal Yekutiel | VP Research and Development | Pitney Bowes
“Over the years I’ve reached out to Shir’s advice on various organizational matters. Shir has always been very responsive and insightful, offering perspective based on her own experience. Her perceptions and advice help me refine my standpoint when making tough decisions.”
Liat Mory | VP of HR | RADWIN
“I had the honor of working with Shir for over seven years when she was the General Manager of the Israeli site at Borderfree. During that time, I had witnessed her leading various organizational changes and work processes, and always with great success! Shir has led the complete restructuring of the engineering organization, in order for it to support the company growth and the very challenging move into an agile work mode.
Following the acquisition of Borderfree by Pitney Bowes, Shir has led the complex integration process of the TLV site into a big American corporate organization, while guiding the different teams through bridging organizational and cultural gaps.
On a personal note, Shir has trained and guided me through the most meaningful intersections in my career, from stepping into an engineering manager role, till my move into product management, and I cannot thank her enough for her support!”
Oren Amoyal | Director of Product | JOOR
“My career as a senior R&D leader grew alongside the company’s growth and during this journey I was fortunate to work with Shir, who held several executive roles and coached me personally.
Shir was critical in our success as a growing start-up and then as a company post-acquisition. She knew how to make tough decisions, she always balanced smartly between business and people, and she built a distinct and unique culture, that we continue to foster today.
During our post- acquisition integration, Shir handled extremely sensitive situations and somehow found a way to reach the best outcome for everyone. She guided us, the Israeli teams, how to work and communicate with our new American colleagues and executives, and represented us proudly to the new corporation.
I learn a lot from Shir, but she not only guided and inspired me, she also truly cared about me personally and believed in my abilities. Shir has everything a company needs. I know we were fortunate to grow and learn from the best!”
Meital Morida Cohen | Senior R&D Director | Pitney Bowes
“I had the privilege of working with Shir for over four years. Her mentorship had influenced my HR views on commitment, people management, respect and humanity and also on leadership, strategic HR and partnership management. I can't stress enough Shir’s contribution to my career path. Her wise and kind approach encouraged me to be the best version of myself as a woman, an HR professional, a leader and a mother.”
Reoot Peleg | Founder of HR for HR Israel | Co-Founder at concept box and Peak-HR as a Service
“As a Product Manager, working at a company that was growing quickly, especially in the US market - I had many outbound integrations and discussions with US colleagues. But at the time, I didn’t have much experience of working in the US market and with American culture.
Shir worked closely with me, teaching me of the culture differences and carefully guiding me on how to behave and communicate correctly, to meet the US expectations. For me, it was a valuable teaching that I use until today in my profession, when working with the US market.”
Gil Meyerstein | Product Manager | Triplemars
“As a small company, being acquired by an American corporation was a radical change for us. Shir lead us through the complex integration step by step. She gapped the cultural differences between the companies, outlined possible pitfalls, managed multiple perspectives, and helped us integrate successfully while keeping our unique culture as a site. I am sure she would be an incredible asset to any company going through an integration.”
Dalit Hendler-Zalayet | Director of Finance | Pitney Bowes
“Shir has been mentoring me in my role as HR Manager for the past two years. Her knowledge and experience are huge, her advice is priceless and her feedback is always strikingly helpful. She is one of the most empowering, kind, empathetic people I have known, and I feel lucky to work with her. I heartily recommend Shir to any HR leader looking to grow.”
Maayan Israel | HR Coordinator | Pitney Bowes
Shir is one of the best leaders I’ve ever worked with. She has the ability to analyze and simplify complex problems and make tough decisions, all while keeping focus on the people aspects and of the team around her. She brings out the best in people, and is truly one-of-a-kind. I am confident that any company she works with will be benefit greatly from her leadership experience, her expertise and her personality.“
Sharon Avner | Director of Finance | Pitney Bowes
