Meet Founder Sharon Decker

~ “I hope I can guide a few more women down the path of recognizing it's a tapestry we weave, not a perfect piece of cloth.” ~
 
Born and raised in small towns near Charlotte, N.C., Sharon Decker’s history offers inspiration for women everywhere. She is a highly successful business executive who has effectively balanced her professional life with responsibilities of the home, service to the community and devotion to her faith.   As the daughter of a minister, she learned early the value of spirituality as the grounding for other facets of life. She successfully applied that lesson as an adult business executive and in her latest venture, The Tapestry Group, where she seeks to share it with others.
 
Headquartered in Rutherfordton, N.C., The Tapestry Group is meshing Sharon’s corporate and organizational leadership talents with a faith-based philosophy. Sharon now coaches contemporary women to better understand their life challenges and opportunities, discover their inherent gifts and talents, and determine their core values and priorities. She then offers them strategies for weaving these gifts and beliefs into the tapestry of their daily lives.
 
After graduating summa cum laude from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Sharon spent more than 17 years with Duke Power Company the nation’s largest utility. She began with the company in consumer services and moved rapidly through the ranks to become the youngest and first female vice president in Duke Power’s history. Her work at Duke Power led to the creation of its 24-hour customer service center.
 
Sharon left Duke Power to become the founding president of The Lynnwood Foundation, which was created to restore the Duke Mansion in Charlotte as a major conference center and to begin the William States Lee Leadership Institute. While at Lynnwood in 1998, she also served as the chair of the Charlotte Chamber and was named Charlotte Woman of the Year. She moved to Rutherfordton in 1999 to serve as President of the Doncaster division of Tanner Companies and most recently served as President of Tanner Holdings.
 
Through her work with Tanner, where most customers and employees are women, Sharon began to understand that most all women, though they walk many paths, share common threads in their life journeys. She also observed that women often isolate themselves in difficult situations and search for the “right” answer, when in reality there isn’t one. Sharon created The Tapestry Group in 2004 to help these women by sharing her insights and experience.
 
In addition to her work with Tapestry, Sharon is a mother of four and a commissioned lay pastor, graduating from the Presbytery of Western N.C. School for the Laity.  She is also a board member for several non-profit organizations and Fortune 500 companies including Coca-Cola Bottling Company Consolidated Inc., Family Dollar Stores Inc., SCANA, Herschend Family Entertainment Group and the Institute at Biltmore.