Shea Harty is the Managing Director of Empowerment, a social enterprise that helps companies with their sustainable employability agendas through team building, cross-cultural communication, leadership programs, inclusion and belonging, redundancies programs, and more. Their non-profit Empower Amsterdam believes in creating inclusion and community for foreigners in different cities. They help unemployed international professionals get back to work faster with free career coaching and workshops.

Shea started her career with HR SAP implementations helping programmers and end-users communicate their needs. She continued in human resources with recruitment, talent management, information systems, and compensation. Alongside running her social enterprise and non-profit, she coaches female entrepreneurs to shift their mindset from employee to owner and helps them gain clarity about their business to grow their clientele.

Shea was born in New York and lives in Amsterdam with her husband and four children.