Sharon Hull is an experienced executive coach and retired family physician with over 30 years of experience in clinical medicine and academic leadership. She has built a solo, rural private practice; held leadership roles in academic health centers as a division chief, department chair, and assistant dean; and served as an executive coach. Sharon founded and led an Executive Coaching Program built for faculty at a major US medical school before retiring from academia to focus full-time on her executive coaching and consulting practice, which she calls her "encore career." Sharon's professional training includes medical school at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, where she is a Distinguished Alumna; Family Medicine residency training with the Union Hospital Family Medicine Residency in Terre Haute, Ind.; a Primary Care Research Fellowship, Master of Public Health in Health Policy and Administration, and Preventive Medicine residency at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a 2008 graduate of the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (Drexel University School of Medicine) fellowship for women leaders in academic health care. Sharon lives with her family in North Carolina.