Media, Speaking and Writing
I provide commentary, speaking, and written analysis on hiring, career systems, and institutional decision-making, drawing on experience inside hiring systems and organizations.
Available for commentary, interviews, contributed writing, and speaking engagements.
SHAUNA COLE
Media Bio
Shauna Cole writes and speaks about career systems, hiring, and how decisions actually get made at work. She has spent her career inside hiring systems, first in HR and later as the founder of HireDiverse. Her work focuses on incentives, risk, and power in modern organizations, particularly where common career advice breaks down and outcomes are often misattributed to individual effort.
Her perspective draws on hands-on experience alongside graduate-level education and teaching in communication and organizational decision-making.
Selected Media
areas of focus
I Write and Speak About
01
How corporate work really works
An analysis of how decisions get made at work, beyond effort, skills, or mindset. This looks at incentives, hierarchy, and risk, and how they shape outcomes in hiring, promotion, and performance.
02
When the advice breaks down
A look at where common career guidance stops working. This examines why best practices fail inside real organizations and what happens when advice meets power, risk and informal decision-making.
03
Understanding career outcomes
A framework for understanding career outcomes without reducing them to personal failure. This focuses on separating individual action from structural and situational factors.