About Sharon Manker
From Supply Chain Strategy to Stage Presence — Sharon Manker Helps Leaders and Businesses Build What's Next.
Advocating for Change Unapologetically™
Sharon Manker is an award-winning supply chain professional, Fractional CPO, keynote speaker, TEDx speaker, author, and founder who helps organizations, founders, and professionals strengthen strategy, resilience, readiness, and growth.
Procurement
Contract Strategy
Vendor Management
Supplier Readiness
Fractional CPO
Business Growth
The Executive
About Sharon Manker, the Award-Winning Supply Chain Professional
Sharon Manker is an award-winning supply chain and procurement leader with more than two decades of experience helping organizations strengthen vendor relationships, improve supplier performance, support supplier engagement, and build procurement strategies that create long-term business value.
Her career has been shaped by the traditional principles of strong procurement leadership: accountability, trust, operational discipline, relationship management, and measurable results. From corporate boardrooms to business-building conversations with entrepreneurs, Sharon brings a practical, people-centered approach to supply chain strategy.
Through SourceWorthy™, her Fractional Chief Procurement Officer practice, Sharon helps founders, small businesses, and organizations gain executive-level procurement insight without the commitment of a full-time CPO. Her work focuses on helping businesses become more procurement-ready, contract-worthy, operationally aligned, and positioned for sustainable growth.
Sharon's Supply Chain Expertise
- Procurement strategy
- Supplier readiness
- Contract readiness
- Vendor management
- Supplier engagement
- Supplier diversity & economic inclusion
- Operational improvement
- Supply chain leadership
- Founder education
- Business growth strategy
"Procurement is more than purchasing. It is strategy, stewardship, relationships, risk management, and readiness working together."
The Voice
About Sharon, the Keynote Speaker and TEDx Speaker
Sharon Manker is a keynote speaker, TEDx speaker, author, and transformational voice known for turning lived experience, leadership lessons, and business insight into messages that move audiences from reflection to action.
Her speaking style blends executive presence, honest storytelling, practical strategy, and the kind of wisdom that makes audiences sit up, lean in, and take notes. Sharon does not simply motivate people for the moment. She equips them with language, frameworks, and next steps they can carry back into their careers, businesses, teams, and communities.
As a speaker, Sharon addresses topics at the intersection of leadership, resilience, procurement readiness, professional identity, self-advocacy, supplier engagement, and business growth. Her message is especially powerful for professionals navigating change, founders preparing for growth, women in leadership, supplier communities, and organizations committed to meaningful impact.
Sharon has spoken for universities, business organizations, supplier development programs, corporate events, industry panels, and community leadership platforms. As a TEDx speaker, she continues expanding her mission to help people stop shrinking, start shaping, and lead with purpose.
Her voice is bold, grounded, and memorable — because the goal is not just applause. The goal is application.
Signature Keynote Themes
- The Professional Chameleon
- From Survival Mode to Purpose-Driven Power
- How to RESET Your Worth and Stop Shrinking
- From Boardrooms to Business Builders
- Procurement-Ready, Contract-Worthy, Powerfully Positioned
- Resilience, Readiness, and Reinvention
- Leadership Is Layered
"A powerful keynote should not just inspire the room. It should shift what people do after they leave it."
Keynotes
Workshops
TEDx
Leadership
Resilience
Books
Business Storytelling
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Whether you need strategic procurement leadership or a speaker who can move your audience from inspiration to implementation, Sharon brings experience, energy, and executable insight to the table.