Stephanie Barbour

EXECUTIVE COACH & LEADERSHIP CONSULTANT

San Francisco, CA

SUMMARY

Stephanie specializes in developing powerful executive presence, influence and engagement skills in senior leaders. Her clients become confident and courageous change agents who negotiate difficult relationships, secure stakeholder support and build teams that deliver. Her coaching expertise is informed by cutting edge neuroscience research and evidence based behavioral practices that increase individual and group intelligence, contribution and performance.

Stephanie’s specialties are: developing influence, executive presence, transition, communication, collaboration, stakeholder relationships and emotional intelligence. Over 80% of Stephanie’s clients receive promotions or take higher level positions while coaching with her. Stephanie’s style compels courageous growth and confidence. She’s warm yet direct, encouraging the best out of clients with her humor, lack of judgment and ability to stretch ability to the next level.

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RELEVANT EXPERIENCE & BACKGROUND

Stephanie’s fifteen years experience in coaching, training and facilitating is informed by twenty-five years of hands-on business experience including roles leading acquisition teams, managing HR enterprise initiatives, and designing three transformative cultural changes. As a leader she is known for turning difficult situations into collaborative wins and merging conflicted cultures. She has held positions as the VP of Programs for the Board of PCMA (Professional Coaches, Mentors, and Advisors Association) and was the founding Bay Area Chapter Leader for the global NeuroLeadership Institute.

CLIENT TESTIMONIALS

Stephanie coached me during my transition to a VP role. She was instrumental in helping me develop tools, techniques, and processes for my transition into a full-fledged organizational leader. She was very insightful in her approach which included observing me interacting with my team and providing feedback. Stephanie delivers the information and advice you need at exactly the right times based on her deep introspective discussions and path-finding techniques.
– Liam Friedland, VP User Experience, Informatica

Stephanie helped me through various areas: (a) Become a trusted coach and a collaborative peer; move from me to we (b) Become an effective leader for my directs with trusted delegation and safety framework (c) Build a vision for the team and group that will be the north star (d) Executive presence in high stake meetings (e) Letting go and sponsoring more collaboration than forcing outcomes. The results were phenomenal and getting promoted to VP was in large part due to the coaching and style changes that Stephanie helped in.
–VP Engineering, Yahoo

RECENT CLIENTS

eBay/Paypal
Facebook
Gilead
Google
Intel
Novartis
PG&E
SafeAmerica
VMWare
Yahoo

EDUCATION

BS | UC Berkeley
School of Business

ASSESSMENT & CERTIFICATIONS

New Ventures West
Certified Somatic Coach
Hogan Assessments
Myers-Briggs (MBTI)
Tracom Social Styles
Leadership Architect
Voices 360
Tilt 365
Team Coaching International
ORSC

INSPIRATIONS

Aikido
The natural world
Extraordinary sights
Adventure