Stephanie Klein’s three-time experience as Chief Marketing Officer in Fortune 500 firms helps her understand the challenges and stress of leading through crisis, organizational change, and uncertainty. As a new CMO in 2008, she led her global team through the financial crisis. When she came up for air several years later, she was diagnosed with life-threatening breast cancer, which unlocked her awareness of the toll her stressful life was taking on her body, mind, and spirit. She realized that balance, mindfulness, and self-compassion were critical for her healing journey and opened her up to be a more vulnerable and connected leader, mother, partner, and friend.  

After leading through the joy and tribulations of a transformative acquisition in 2017, she decided it was time for her to walk away and pursue a more meaningful second act. She began a journey of education and growth that led her to become a certified Search Inside Yourself instructor, executive coach, speaker, and author. Her disruptive story of leaving the C-suite is featured in the anthology Turning Point Moments: True Inspirational Stories about Creating a Life that Works for You (2022). Her book entitled Waking Up on the Right Side of Wrong, about how we can use disruption and mindset to change the trajectory of our lives positively, will be published in 2023.

As an executive coach, emotional and positive intelligence trainer, educator, speaker, and author, Klein is committed to empowering elite professionals to thrive through change. She helps them bravely embrace their authenticity, learn to adapt with choice, and stretch with confidence and compassion. Hence, they optimize performance and well-being and build mental resilience to shift from burnout to balance. What lights her up is seeing how inner transformation creates positive outer change, with myriad ripple effects across relationships, organizations, communities, and our world.