Our Story

The Silverene Group works to optimize organizational performance.

I believe everyone deserves to work in an organization that allows them to thrive, especially now, as we enter a new era of working with AI, not just alongside it.

Too often, I’ve seen the opposite: brilliant people stuck in toxic systems, dreams slowly eroded by outdated leadership and culture. It’s why I founded The Silverene Group in 2016 and why I’m fiercely committed to helping CEOs, CHROs, and executive teams build AI-ready, high-performing organizations. My work lives at the intersection of culture, leadership, and strategy, closing the critical gap between AI adoption and human readiness so transformation doesn’t just look good on paper, but delivers real results.

At Silverene, we guide companies through growth, disruption, and reinvention. Our work is anchored in the SPARK™ operating model and powered by SPARK AI.Q™, our proprietary diagnostic that helps leaders measure and accelerate organizational readiness for AI-powered transformation.

My perspective is shaped by a global upbringing (India, Nigeria, UK, Greece) and two decades leading people and culture inside organizations like Visa, Fannie Mae, and CGI. I’ve served as CHRO of a national trade association and now advise executive teams navigating growth, M&A, and organizational change in the age of AI.

I’m the author of The Conscious Workplace, a keynote speaker on culture, leadership, and AI readiness, a board advisor to Enabled Intelligence, an AI firm serving the national security arena, and serve on nonprofit boards.

At my core, I help leaders build cultures that drive performance and organizations where humans and AI thrive together.

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What Our Clients Say

  • "The Silverene Group has added to the success of our organization in many ways: they created and implemented a robust and inclusive process which resulted in a culture work plan that we could execute to integrate our values and strengthen our culture; and they partnered with the senior leadership team to coach us as a group to work and lead more inclusively. They are outstanding partners to have on your side, and I recommend them with confidence."

    Katy Davis, COO, National Association of Corporate Directors

  • "Shaara’s coaching during an exciting leadership transition was critical to my success. [She] shaped our discussions to provide me with straight-forward, actionable and concrete recommendations."

    Jennifer Ives, Senior VP Security & Software, 3Pillar Global

  • "I have worked with some good coaches but what distinguishes Fiona from others is her own corporate experience and her ability to create an effective comfortable and safe space. She has been quite insightful and used her skills and expertise to help me see myself from a completely new perspective. While being always supportive and sometimes radically candid, she was always able to provide both a healthy and humorous debate to my decision making."

    Rebecca Varghese, Global Vice President and Controller, International Justice Mission ®

  • “Shaara has helped greatly in moving us forward to improve the working conditions, and to create a better engagement with all of our employees.”

    Senior Executive, Federal Agency

  • "Shaara and her team have been consistently engaged to implement change management across the organization and develop a new, more effective way of doing business. With her guidance and direction, we created new initiatives, strategic goals and new competencies for the employees to better assist our customers. She is a wonderful asset."

    Kimberly Newman, Director, Division of Workforce Development, ASPR

  • "The level of attention and customization we received from The Silverene Group is to be commended. Their facilitated program helped our leaders and staff develop common understanding around inclusion, diversity, unconscious bias, and also learn about the impact of biases and micro-inequities. The team created a program that adapted to our needs, and pivoted when necessary to ensure that the training program would effectively align and support our overall DE&I strategy."

    Patricia Beeson, Vice President Human Resources, AAPA