The team
Certified specialists, each with a focus.
An international team that has worked extensively with global companies, cultures, and brands. Every ThinqShifter coaches a specific focus area, the way a strength trainer and a nutritionist both work toward the same performance goal from different angles.
Vipul Kapadia
Inspirer & Architect
Spent two decades in business transformation before founding ThinqShift: from Arthur Andersen and Deloitte to co-founding Qedis, a London consultancy that grew from 3 people to more than 150, and then North Highland's senior executive team. Vipul is the architect of the Fabulous Leadership Framework and works with CEOs and leadership teams on the shift their next chapter demands.
Gordon Hwang
Coach & Problem Solver
A co-founder of ThinqShift who coaches senior executives and high-potential emerging leaders across Fortune 500 companies, start-ups, non-profits, and schools. Gordon spent seven years as a Vice President at North Highland, leading a 50-person team on a global Fortune 500 account, and six years on a school's board of trustees, including as chairman.
Vicki Shillington
Chief Happiness Officer
More than two decades leading organization transformation, talent, and culture work, from London to Los Angeles. Vicki led North Highland's global People and Change practice as a Vice President, then, as Beachbody's technology talent executive, raised employee engagement from 4.5 to 7.5 out of 10 by building Awesome Manager and Superstar Performer programs.
Samantha Stear
Performance Influencer
A scientist who has spent a career making elite performance repeatable: Head of Performance Nutrition at the English Institute of Sport, lead nutritionist for UK Athletics, and Global Science Lead for performance nutrition at Nestlé. Samantha brings the elite-athlete performance-team lens to leaders, and is the author of books on sport and exercise nutrition.
Steve Polk
Technology Innovator & Mentor
A technology leader who has built and scaled engineering teams at Walt Disney Imagineering, Beachbody, and Crain Communications, where Steve oversaw digital operations for 24 brands and launched an AI-driven Innovation Day. Works with leaders whose market, and whose technology, is moving faster than their org chart, including through the AI transition.
Amy Richter
Pathfinder & People Reader
Nearly three decades leading client relationships and creative teams: a decade running advertising for the Atlanta Braves, then senior agency leadership as SVP and Group Account Director at Fitzgerald+CO and Vice President at 360i. That career taught Amy to read people first, and that instinct for what actually moves someone is what Amy coaches from.
David Watson
Relationship Activator & Optimist
Two decades in enterprise relationships and complex sales, from global strategic accounts at PTC and Oracle to Vice President at Pariveda Solutions, alongside lecturing at the University of Washington and chairing a nonprofit board building rural clinics in Kenya. David focuses on leadership alignment, team dynamics, and the rising stars who are an organization's future pipeline.
The wider bench
Specialist ThinqShifters
Brought in by a Lead ThinqShifter when the work calls for different expertise or experience, all working from the same language, concepts, and philosophy.
