About Us

Shawn Snelgrove, founder of Brainstorming à la Mode, Inc. works with professionals and businesses to create results that matter. Her company provides innovative facilitation, coaching, and consulting services.



Vision: A world where people live and work in full color.

Mission: To inspire creative expression, contribution, and laughter.

Values: Creativity. Peace. Connection. Awareness. Vitality. Freedom.


  Shawn Snelgrove, Founder

Since 1989 Shawn has worked with Fortune 500 organizations, small businesses, and individuals to bring out the creative best in people. As a consultant, facilitator, writer, and coach, she has contributed to the growth of organizations such as Blue Cross Blue Shield, CNA Insurance, Exempla Healthcare, Fresh Produce Sportswear, Gill Foundation, Hewlett Packard, JP Morgan, Kaiser Permanente, Pfizer, Procter and Gamble, WellPoint and many small businesses.

Whether she’s leading a team-building retreat, coaching a career transition, or designing a training program, Shawn inspires innovative solutions for business challenges. Her approach integrates practical consulting methods, business models, and adult learning theory with leading-edge creativity practices, human potential concepts, and coaching insights.

Partnerships include:

Inside Counts www.insidecounts.com as a facilitator/coach for Leadership Connections ® and Performance Coaching for Internal Coaches workshops as well as This Time Retreats for Women in Career and Life Transition and Team Transition Retreats.

Questas Consulting www.questas.com as a training consultant and facilitator.

Wolf Creek Partners as an experiential activity leader for Play to Win ® and Moving to Higher Ground ® .

Team Coaching International www.teamdiagnosticassessment.com as facilitator of Team Diagnostic™ Assessment

TreeLine Training www.treelinetraining.com as a trainer and coach

Experience and Education includes:

  • Twelve years of management consulting, training design and facilitation, and coaching in organizational development and operational effectiveness.
  • Nine years of small-business revenue stream development and marketing.
  • Two years of special event production with clients such as Westin, BMW, MasterCard, Merck, Sheraton, and L’Oréal.
  • Bachelor of Arts in English with a minor in Business from University of Arizona .
  • Five years of show production, leadership development, and international community service with Up With People.
  • Graduate of Team Coaching Intensive in the Team Diagnostic™ Assessment with www.teamcoachinginternational.com
  • Graduate of The Coaches Training Institute in the Co-Active Coaching Model ®. http://www.thecoaches.com
  • Trained in Non-Adversarial Communication ® with Connection Partners. www.connectionpartners.com
  • Student of Norman and Laura Allard with Iyengar Yoga Center of Boulder in yoga, movement, breathwork, and awareness. www.boulderyoga.com www.studiobeyoga.com

Shawn lives and works in Boulder , Colorado , with her husband and cat. She can also be found hiking in the Rockies , camping in the Southwest, traveling abroad, or eating ice cream on Pearl Street .