Shona Wylie

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Co-Founder at The Future In Mind

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Overview

Shona Wylie is the Co-Founder of The Future In Mind, specializing in enhancing team and leadership performance through psychological safety. With a career spanning two decades in HR leadership at organizations like Volvo Trucks, she focuses on shifting organizational culture from intention to action. Colleagues describe her as engaging and diligent.

Shona brings a creative, honest, and fun approach to her development work. She embraces stepping out of her comfort zone for public speaking engagements and shares her experiences with a sense of humor, including reflections on making bold wardrobe choices for industry events.

During a recent five-minute talk at a DisruptHR event, Shonas presentation on psychological safety made the room full of HR leaders gasp… twice.

Personality Overview

Value Driven

Curious

Assertive

They are generally strong communicators and are not easy to convince.  They can sound friendly and charming but can quickly change gears to become inquisitive and probing. They are likely to ask many questions and look heavily for supporting information.

Topics They Care About

Psychological Safety
This is her core professional focus. She co-founded her company to help organizations build trust and create environments where people feel safe to speak up and contribute fully.
Leadership Development
Her work at The Future In Mind and her previous senior roles at Volvo have centered on developing leadership capabilities and creating high-performing teams.
Organizational Culture
She has extensive experience leading cultural development initiatives and believes that creating the right conditions for behavioral change is key to unlocking team potential.

Media Appearances

Shona has no verified media appearances

Work History

1-2024
Co-Founder at The Future In Mind
10-2020 - 12-2023
Global People & Organisational Development Specialist at Volvo Trucks
5-2019 - 10-2020
People and Organisational Development Director at Volvo Group Australia
12-2018 - 5-2019
Vice President Human Resources at Volvo Group Australia
6-2018 - 11-2018
Senior Human Resources Business Partner at Volvo Group Australia

Education

Diploma in Executive Coaching from Academy of Executive Coaching (AoEC)
Postgraduate from Glasgow Caledonian University

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Exp : 18 Location : Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom Job Level : Leadership Designation : Co-Founder at The Future In Mind
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Insights For Selling To Shona

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Persuade objectively how your product will help them achieve their goals
  • Ask them questions to understand their needs better while staying affable
  • Build rapport, it will come handy to handle hard questions later

DONT's

  • Don’t be too objective but make sure to pad your storytelling with data points
  • Avoid making offhand commitments
  • Don’t try to rush them into a decision, provide all necessary information first

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Shona is

  • Proven value, strong testimonials are important to them, relationships will have some weightage.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Shona

  • They are practical yet friendly, don’t expect a clear no very often.

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Shona move?

  • They like to analyze well and then make their decisions.
  • Can Shona take some risk or not?

  • They evaluate their decisions systematically and are less likely to take risks.

You And Shona

Personality Compatibility


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