Chantel McCormick Schieffer is the owner of True North Leadership.

Her thirty-year career has focused on building better communities, teams, and cultures through top positions in private industry, government, and non-profit organizations.

Growing up near Glacier National Park in Montana, Chantel attended college at Montana State University in Bozeman earning a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science. She holds facilitation certifications from Brené Brown Research and Education Group, the Center for Ethical Leadership, and the Myers Briggs Company.

Chantel has supplemented her education with executive certifications in Leadership and Management by Harvard University, The Science of Wellbeing at Yale University, and Workplace Happiness at UC Berkeley.

Chantel was honored internationally with the Alpha Omicron Pi Woman of Leadership Award in 2017 and in 2018 received the prestigious ATHENA® Leadership Award. In 2023, at the culmination of a decade of service to Leadership Montana, Chantel was awarded the organization’s highest honor with the Tom Scott Award for Excellence in Leadership for Montana.

For Chantel, her husband Dax, and their son Dax Michael, adventure is a family value. The trio can often be found playing outside, especially along the trails in their hometown of Helena, Montana.