About - Sonya L. Sigler

About Sonya L Sigler

Sonya is in the confidence building business and loves to help women break through the glass ceiling! She works with highly motivated professional women (and enlightened, progressive men) who feel stuck, uncertain, or frustrated in their career. She empowers them to find a job they love that is balanced and aligned with their work-life vision. It took her many years to learn to do this and now she helps others design and live their balanced life.

Sonya combines her 1:1 executive leadership coaching and business strategy consulting to create real-world game plans that are practical and accomplishable for start-ups and companies looking to grow quickly or reinvent themselves. She focuses on strategic planning and the implementation of solutions to difficult and seemingly intractable problems. Her extensive experience as an operations and legal executive ranges from start-ups to new business ventures inside public companies.

She is a frequent writer, speaker and trainer on many topics. Her most popular presentations and workshops are on authentic personal branding, mentoring, work-life vision, effective networking, how to ask for a raise, and the top 10 tips to manage your career. She has spent a considerable amount of time speaking and teaching on various legal-related topics and has trained over 1,000 lawyers in statistics and linguistics for data analytics. Her other training programs focus on philanthropic grant writing, fundraising, and advocacy.

Sonya has been an in-house IP and Corporate lawyer for over 25 years. Her previous career accomplishments include having the role of Vice President of Product Strategy and Consulting at Discovia, being the founder of Cataphora and holding an in-house counsel position at Intuit and a business development/legal consultant role to several companies, including Sony, IDO Systems, RealCommunities and Treasure Media. She started her legal career as an attorney at SEGA, supporting the business and product development groups, marketing, and the finance department.

She is active in her community and writes for the Stroll Felida magazine (FKA Felida Fine Living). She is a mentor for the Santa Clara University Entrepreneur Law Clinic and The Mentoring Club. She is on the Steering Committee for the San Carlos Chickens’ Ball and is the President and Treasurer of the DesBrisay Sigler Family Foundation. Sonya is a staunch supporter and advocate for women and girls in technology and has founded or been on the board of a women’s group since she began her career. She is an active member of and speaker for Women in eDiscovery.

Past community activities have included being a member of the Association of Corporate Counsel (on the Litigation and Small Law Department Committees), the American Bar Association, and The Sedona Conference Working Group 1 on Electronic Document Retention and Production, founding the Women’s Interactive Entertainment Association, and board work for Verify Valid, the Nova Vista Symphony, Women in Technology, the San Carlos Education Foundation, and the San Carlos Charter Learning Center.

Sonya is a philanthropist and volunteers for many organizations. In 1999, she and Greg DesBrisay founded the DesBrisay Sigler Family Foundation, an independent private nonprofit dedicating to grant-making for a variety of causes, including supporting our National Parks, Sensory Processing Disorder, and Literacy/Financial literacy.

Personally, Sonya is married to an amazing partner, Keir Morgan, and they have put together a comprehensive vision of what they want in their lives together and separately. They are working on making that vision a reality. In her scraps of spare time, Sonya enjoys traveling the world to see family and friends, auto-crossing Porsches, playing trombone and other brass instruments, performing in community theater, and handiwork like knitting, quilting, scrap-booking, and making costumes and hats.

Sonya’s passions include her three brilliant, sports-obsessed, Axe-wearing sons and following their endeavors. You used to be able to find her taking pictures on the sidelines during Friday Night Lights in the Fall or on the baseball field in the Spring. Now her three sons are in college or beyond.

Education: JD from Santa Clara University; BA in Philosophy, Music Minor from UC Berkeley; UC Berkeley Extension. Certificates in Business Administration and Marketing, both Awarded with Distinction

Inventor: Patents 6,954,728, 7,797,168, 7,996,264; 8,407,086, 8,417,535, and others that are unpublished

Her CV can be seen here. Her DISC model details can be seen here.

For a more entertaining and personal bio – read the one on her fabulous blog featuring practical advice, at PractiGal You can also follow her on Twitter and Instagram @sonyasigler or Facebook @WorthwhileCoaching

Sonya lives in Vancouver, WA with her husband, Keir Morgan, and an ever changing combination of her three sons: Jasper, Bryce, and McKinley.