About Us

Sharyle L. Sponsler
Business Consultant & President

Sharyle's career spans over 25 years working in the Silicon Valley and internationally for some of the top technology companies.

Sharyle was part of the original team at Apple Computer for Macintosh.  She was the Sr. Planner responsible for the manufacturing and production.  It was there that she interacted with and was influenced by some of the top leaders and creative teams in the industry.  Many of her coworkers continue to make headlines and be relevant in today's ever changing technology business.  And yes, she worked with Steve Jobs.

Besides Apple, Sharyle worked for Intel Corporation, Atari Video Games, Maxtor, Teledyne, Computer Associates and Gateway computers.

Sharyle Acquired valuable international experience by working for an Australian Software company, Arrow Research. Sharyle's latest role in technology was that of President for a privately owned educational software company in Orange County California.

Sharyle proves how well rounded she is by being involved in the Semiconductor, Software, Hardware, Disk Drive Storage and even planned for the builds of counter measure devices for F-15 fighter planes.

After being successful in her career and being a big believer in giving back to the community, Sharyle left her corporate job to follow another passion that developed in her earlys days of employment.  Her passion was and is to help other women shortcut their journey to success in both their work and personal lives.

She founded and was CEO of WAN, Women's Advancement Network.  This non-Profit 501(C6) trade organization provided speakers whom many were corporate women leaders, panels, networking and university mentoring programs at UCI and to their members.  In it's first year, Wan had 80 participating corporations, brought in 16 corporate sponsors, and held 14 events with over 800 attendees.

Because of her work at WAN, Sharyle was nominated as one of the Top Shakers and Movers of Orange County California in 2002.  In 2003 she was honored with the Remarkable Women's Business awards of Southern California and for the Women in Business awards.

Sharyle currently has finished writing the draft for her book she started over 6 years ago.  She interviewed 14 senior women executives who shared their journeys from being ordinary to extraordinary, their trials and tribulations along the way, and most importantly, their suggestion and insights with others on how they became successful, no matter what the road blocks they faced.  The book will be released in early 2018.