Steve Shelton

Forging a New Path for Cybersecurity Leaders, Teams, and Organizations. At Green Shoe Consulting, we provide the essential cognitive performance tools for cybersecurity leaders, teams, and organizations to manage stress, prevent burnout, and achieve peak performance in the modern digital arena. Just as the foot races of ancient Greece honored the pursuit of arete—excellence and virtue through competition—today’s cybersecurity professionals must strive for glory amidst relentless challenges in a high-stakes environment. Ancient Greek athletes, the original competitors in the arena, balanced intense training with the wisdom to avoid overtraining and burnout. Similarly, cybersecurity professionals face the constant pressure to perform, often under grueling conditions that can lead to chronic stress and diminished effectiveness. Green Shoe Consulting is the modern equivalent of a trusted trainer, equipping today’s digital champions with the strategies, skills, and resilience to endure and thrive. Our consultants, adorned in signature green shoes, symbolize the new footing required for today’s leaders to navigate the complexities of their domain. We are more than advisors—we are partners, empowering cybersecurity professionals to achieve their personal arete while defending the digital world. Green Shoe Consulting delivers: Individual and Team Coaching: Enhancing decision-making, communication, and leadership. Resilience Training: Tools to manage stress effectively, enabling sustained performance. Organizational Consulting: Redesigning workplace dynamics to foster engagement and prevent burnout. Workshops and Events: Intimate, high-impact experiences like “CISO Resilience” retreats, where professionals recharge, connect, and innovate. Research: conducting the industry's first peer-reviewed research on stress and burnout among CISOs. Our research is published in our State of Stress (in Cybersecurity) report.

Brummel Academy of Mind & Movement uses yoga movements, breath and mind work to support an athletes’ training regimen. Our programs help athletes realize their physical and mental potential. As a result, our athletes have less injuries, improved athletic recovery, stronger mental focus and perform at their highest levels.

Serving as a yoga instructor at the YMCA McGaw - teaching Yoga for Men.

I joined the Niles West High School Football staff as a volunteer during the 2021 season. Head Coach Nick Torresso and staff took over a struggling program and began implementing a winning culture. I coached the defensive line and began introducing yoga concepts to the players.

Vertica is a SQL analytics solution built from the ground up to handle massive volumes of data and delivers blazing fast Big Data analytics. Vertica is available in the broadest range of deployment and consumption models, including on premise, on Hadoop, and in the clouds (AWS, Azure and GCP)

Avanan provides one click enterprise cloud security for Office365, Box, Google or any other SaaS applications by leveraging solutions from over 60 best-of-breed security vendors like Check Point, Palo Alto, Symantec and FireEye. With Avanan, organizations can now have greater control and visibility of their cloud and enable an efficient and secure cloud transition. Steve is responsible for driving strategy and sales, and delivering solutions for Enterprise businesses as well as State, Local, Higher Education and Government entities. http://www.avanan.com

Major Account Manager working with large customers in Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana. Proofpoint protects a company's people from targeted and advanced attacks seen in email, social and mobile applications; we protect the information users create (email, social and mobile) from advanced, targeted attacks and to ensure compliance; and we help our customers respond quickly when things go wrong.

I am responsible for selling the full suite of PKWARE solutions to Large Enterprise organizations. The PKWARE Solution is the only complete solution for reducing, securing, moving and storing data across the extended enterprise, both internally and externally, from mainframes to servers to desktops and into the cloud. PKWARE offers software solutions to critical IT problems, namely the explosive growth of data, the need to secure data, and the emergence of data in the cloud. PKWARE offers the only total solution for reducing and securing data in motion or at rest, so data can be securely moved or stored anywhere. The PKWARE Solution is used billions of times each day to manage risks associated with data security breaches while avoiding increased storage costs with data reduction of up to 95% and improving service delivery.