Shoya ZichySpeaker and Booking Agent Information

She is the author of Career Match: Connecting Who You Are With What You'll Love To Do, which won the Sharp Writ Book Award for "Best Research" in 2010 from Mensa. Women and The Leadership Q, Color Q Profiles: For More Success in Work and Relationships, Color Q Coaching, and Getting Along With Your Family are among her other works.

Arabic, Chinese, Italian, and Korean have all been translated into her work. Color Q, her unique model, combines the Myers-Briggs community's research with David Keirsey's temperament model. It gives extremely precise data on how people's brain types influence their leadership, workplace dynamics, sales style, career choices, coaching approach, and team and family engagement.

Shoya formerly worked for Citibank, Merrill Lynch, Institutional Investor, and American Express for 20 years in worldwide marketing, sales, and management, as well as journalism, including a four-year expatriate assignment in Hong Kong. She had previously worked as a teacher at Greenwich Academy in Connecticut for four years.

Her business experience on the front lines gives her training programs a real-world edge. Peter Tanous' book The Wealth Equation is based on Shoya's groundbreaking study relating personality to investing behavior, which was featured on the cover of Plan Sponsor magazine.

She was on the board of the Financial Women's Association and is a previous president of the Myers-Briggs Association of New York. Shoya has a master's degree in education from Boston University and speaks French and German fluently.