Shannon Grosswiler Coaching Shannon Grosswiler SCAM Shannon Grosswiler Coaching is Inconsiderate, Lies to Prospects & Clients, Makes False Promises & Commitments, and Does Lake Oswego OR

Shannon  Grosswiler Coaching approached me on LinkedIn with the following offer:

Hello Tony! Thank you for connecting! Congrats on your career path. I know from experience how professionals in our field wear many hats and how we can end up in different sectors and diverse industries.  As a 20+ year communications/PR, marketing, corporate, and non-profit professional.

I’ve been helping others land their perfect next job with more meaning, pay, and impact five times faster than going it alone. Are you ready to land a position where you are valued, offered more flexibility, and lucrative benefits, and earn a salary to get you at least $15k-$20k+ more a year? 

If you are actively looking, I’d love to connect for a complimentary 20-minute career breakthrough call where you’ll see how to: -Leverage your personal brand to secure the all-important informational interview to access the real job market and to get insider referrals.  -Identify if your field is the right path for you so you’re not wasting away your peak earning years. -Master interviews so you get to the final interview 3x more than other job seekers. 

If there’s a fit, we can talk about how I can help. If not, no worries, you can still walk away with new ideas on how to accelerate your career growth!  Would you be open to a quick call to explore?

Shannon did not show at our appointed time, and 10 minutes later called to tell me that one of her other clients was in crisis and needed her, so she needed to reschedule. She asked me to reschedule for later that day or the following day. I scheduled at the same time the following day.

Seven minutes before our appointment, she sent me this: "Thank you for your interest in my coaching services. I've had so much interest from my target market (women over 40) that I'm not taking on more clients. Best to you!"

It was such a baldfaced lie that I felt it insulted my intelligence. I sent back the following:

You canvassed me for business on Monday (targeting someone from a demographic clearly outside your stated target market?); then yesterday you asked to reschedule (not cancel); then in the last 24 hours you decided you were at capacity (otherwise you would have told me when we spoke yesterday); and you informed me of this 7 minutes before our scheduled meeting today.  

You're a business owner, Shannon. There's nothing wrong with simply saying "I don't think I'm the right coach for you," if that's how you feel about a potential client. Apologizing for taking up their time is a considerate touch that they will appreciate, and if they've identified a difficulty (like I did: interviewing) recommending another coach you think could help them is a professional move that leaves people feeling like a) you aren't leaving them high and dry after getting their hopes up; and b) that you actually care about their success, which makes them more likely to recommend you and less likely to write you negative reviews, which are extremely damgerous in reputation-based businesses like yours.

Safeguard yours by treating those you decline to work with at least as well as those you take on. Be well, and take care.   She responded by apologizing for her unprofessionalism:   Agreed. I just had an unnerving experience and it was an unprofessional retreat. I was then thrown off by you booking under a different name.

I want to share ideas with you to make up for today. I told her I was still willing to work with her and she told me her rate was $590 for four weeks. The next day I spent two hours putting together an email that demonstrated that her own website was adding little marketing value and serving more like a dead-weight booking platform that draws in no customers that Shannon doesn't canvass with social media messages. I proposed trading my consultiung time for her job coaching time. Her response:

This is amazing, and I’m totally overwhelmed. Let me  digest this after coffee and get back to you. Ok. This offer is incredibly generous, and I see how I can help you. What I see here is that I think I can only handle you actually doing the rewrite for me, and this my friend, this could be the problem of your approach in interviews. That being said, let’s meet on Zoom and see if I can help for an hour. No cash payment needed. You’ve done far more work for me already. 

I spent two more hours putting together another email explaining some things both about her website project and my coaching project, and then saw I had another email from her, which said:  

Tony,

In talking to my therapist today, she helped me understand how much time we've spent communicating and how this energy must be returned to working with my current clients and with my target market. We also concluded that my target market should be women for many reasons that make the most sense for my mental and emotional well-being.

It's been fascinating working through this with you. I'm confident you will read and assimilate all the information you can find on how to master interviews, and you'll take the guidance offered here, right to your next gig.

Take good care,

Shannon

I responded with a question:

Am I to understand that "Let’s meet on Zoom and see if I can help for an hour. No cash payment needed. You’ve done far more work for me already." is retracted with that last email?

Her response:

It is. Thank you so much for this work. I'm sticking with my current marketing structure which is working well for what I'm able to do and doesn't require this level of web work. Apologies for the inconvenience this may have caused you, and now I have to focus on my current path of business development and current client needs.  

She did not respond further.  Shannon Grosswiler's admitted unprofessionalism, lack of integrity, inconsistency, and then her offering me an hour of time in acknowledgement that "you’ve done far more work for me already." Because of that commitment, we had an agreement, which I trusted her to honor.

But YOU CAN'T TRUST SHANNON GROSSWILER, and she knew when she reneged on her commitment what she was doing. This clearly demonstrates that this is not a person who does what they say they will do simply because they said they would.

That's called personal integrity and this business owner has convincingly demonstrated both with her lies, her broken agreement, and her general incompetence (her career coaching suggestions was not backed up by any rationale and she did not answer my requests for why she wanted me to make the changes she suggested.

She purports to be a 20 YEAR Marketing professional. One look at her website, which looks like it was cutting edge in 2005 (it looks antiquated now), has to make you wonder. I wish Shannon Grosswiler never darkened my LinkedIn Inbox, and I hope never to hear from her again. What a complete waste of time, totally unprofessional experience, with nothing in return for my troubles.

She couldn't even be bothered to answer when I toild her I didn't understand one of her answers. Zero value provided. Please don't waste your time.