Culture Leaders is a consulting and coaching firm formed in response to client needs and requests. It includes principles from Leader OnBoarding, and formalizes an expanded practice area first entered in 2005: the assessment and evolution of company culture, while building culture leadership capability.

A seasoned coach and organizational consultant experienced in coaching leaders throughout their career lifecycle. With expertise in coaching, coupled with deep understanding of organizational behavior and assessment, positions her as a uniquely qualified coach and consultant. As a coach, Stephanie partners with the leader to identify targeted areas that have the greatest impact on personal and organizational performance. A rapid transition to development and implementation of the action plan enables the leader to quickly respond and demonstrate results. Her integrated approach to coaching ensures that development work and actions have immediate and long-term leader and business impact, while respecting various demands placed on leaders. A deep expertise in assessment enables Stephanie to identify and apply assessments appropriate to the leader and the context. Her personal manner, which is simultaneously kind and forthright, helps the leader analyze assessment results with an enhanced self-awareness, subsequently uncover hidden opportunities, and feel accountable for change. Stephanie has held a range of positions in the Financial Services industry. She specializes in aligning strategies and processes with organizational goals for the greatest business impact. Her ability to mesh talent management strategies with sustainable leader development processes enables organizations to realize the full potential of their talent. A further sub-specialty is in Leader OnBoarding, where she employs research-based tools and processes that result in significant improvement and leader retention and performance.Stephanie holds an M.S. in Organization and Management from Capella University where she focused on the impact of Talent strategies in organizations. In addition to specialized coaching training, she is an SPHR and is certified in multiple assessment and consulting tools.

Fortune 100 company that offers a full range of insurance and financial services across the country.Led assessment for selection, executive coaching and executive assessment efforts. Established and grew career services and the career center. Oversaw disbursement codes and budgets of both assessment and career center. Assessment Strategy and Practice-Developed enterprise assessment strategy to ensure consistent and integrated assessment approach for selection, development and career management. -Led work to create the business case, strategy and implementation plan to add assessments to the selection process for all Nationwide job families. Managed the vendor RFP and selection process.­-Led the design, development and reporting of metrics for assessment for selection. Metrics include adverse impact, utilization and effectiveness. Developed as a repeatable, sustainable process.Career Services/myCareer Resource Center—2-5 team members-Led establishment and growth of myCareer Resource Center. Made available career management and job search skills to over 33,000 Nationwide associates.Succession Management, Executive Coaching, Executive Assessment-Designed, developed and implemented streamlined approach to succession data collection -Defined executive coaching common philosophy and roles to create a scalable sustainable process.-Directed and oversaw executive assessments for selection and development process.

Consulted with various clients to provide customized approaches to identify and design solutions for their organizational challenges.Applied organization and leader development principles to onboarding process to enhance and enrich products and relate them more closely to business and new executive needs. Designed and led strategic planning process which defined mission, vision and values and created a scorecard for guiding and managing the business. Led scorecard review resulting in adjusting and focusing business development and service practices of the partnership, driving business results.

Designed, created, and facilitated change processes to support coaching culture.Created methodology for collecting, processing and analyzing training evaluation data.Coached individuals to create vocational focus, strategy and action plans to reach their career goals.