Sheila Cornea

Passionate about inspirational communication and coaching, Dr. Sheila Cornea founded Gutsy Grace Ministries to ignite courage in women. She is passionate about encouraging ladies who are emerging as leaders to maximize their potential and engage their influence with gutsy grace.  With experience as a career educator, non-profit executive, and ministry leader, Dr. Cornea’s diverse experience has offered her rich opportunities to partner with a broad spectrum of ministers and leaders in their personal and professional development. Through her consulting and coaching, Sheila encountered many people with great ideas and big dreams hoping to be successful, but needing help to drive their innovation to success. Her mission is to help ladies launch and lead fruitful and profitable ministries.

As a coach…Sheila enjoys one-on-one coaching of emerging leaders and influencers. Her ideal coaching client is an individual who has a clear vision of their future and seeking a partner to collaborate on the strategy and structure to achieve their vision. She often coaches aspiring authors, emerging ministers, and nonprofit executives. As expressed by one of her coaching clients, “Sheila’s immeasurable ability to encourage, enduring wisdom and steadfast fortitude kept me moving forward.”

As a consultant…In addition to conducting leadership seminars, organizational consulting, and team-building workshops with corporations, Sheila favors working with ministries and non-profits to help them develop best practices to empower their mission. One client describes, “Dr. Cornea does not just teach and coach leadership, she exudes it.”  

As an educator…Having earned her doctorate degree in Organizational Leadership and Development from Nova Southeastern University, Dr. Cornea also specialized in Adult Learning. A life-long learner herself, Dr. Cornea has served as adjunct faculty at Southeastern University, her alma mater, teaching various education and leadership courses. She also serves as on the leadership team for the International Institute of Mentoring with Judy Jacobs’ Ministries.

As an author…In addition to published curricula and magazine articles, Sheila co-authored The 150 Most Important Bible Verses. Her first book,The 100 Most Important Bible Verses for Leaders was released by Thomas Nelson in 2006, and her latest book, The 365 Most Important Bible Passages for Mothers was released by FaithWords in 2012.

As a speaker…Often invited to speak at conferences, Sheila has been described as “surprisingly funny, but seriously challenging.” One conference participant explains, “Her message is always fresh and relevant. Dr. Cornea possesses the unique ability of making the listener feel as if she is speaking directly to them.” Sheila most enjoys addressing ladies in leadership, church groups, and faith-based organizations. Her humorous insight is known to motivate participants to action.