Stephanie Licata, M.A. A.C.C.

 With over two decades of leadership and management experience in the business and educational arenas, Stephanie is a skilled learning and leadership consultant, coach and training specialist.  Having spent a good portion of her early adulthood working in a management position in the world of direct marketing, she was accountable for creating sound structures to support seven account representatives serving more than 500 clients.

She transitioned smoothly from marketing into the world of education and coaching and has operated as a small business owner since 2007. For ten years she worked simultaneously in educational leadership while being an active consultant, coach and training specialist working in a variety of industries including but not limited to marketing, technology, pharmaceutical consulting, event management, television production, SaaS, public relations, education, hospitality, tribal-owned businesses and tribal government, retail, nonprofit, healthcare, and with dozens of entrepreneurs running their own show. After acquiring advanced training and education in coaching and organizational psychology while simultaneously providing services in these arenas, Stephanie navigated a career change into full time coaching, consulting and leadership training in 2013. 

Stephanie has a strong people operations and small business strategic planning background. She has supported businesses of all sizes across a wide variety of industries build sound and streamlined practices to manage and develop people and improve and streamline processes. From understanding how to identify, develop and hire for necessary roles, to creating more efficient ways to manage projects,  to up leveling the skills of individuals and leaders, Stephanie has worked with hundreds of businesses to work SMART. 

Since 2017, Stephanie has trained thousands of leaders and managers in the art and science of coaching for performance and development with a comprehensive coaching skills for leaders program she designed in Partnership with Purpose & Performance Group. As a practicing and certified coach, she had dedicated a large part of her career to coaching in a variety of settings including business coaching, leadership coaching, team coaching and 1-1 career transition coaching.

Stephanie received her professional coaching certification from New York University, and is also certified at the ACC level with the International Coaching Federation. She holds a BS in counseling and a Masters in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University.

Notable Accomplishments 

1. Created and delivered trainings monthly for over 500 Global entrepreneurs in the areas of strategic planning, business development, streamlining services, hiring and business growth. 
2. Designed and executed onboarding, new manager training & performance management processes from organizations from 10-50,000 employees. 
3. Created training, resources and content to support the rapid growth of a SaaS automated coaching platform to support customer success. 
4. Designed and delivered a comprehensive 6-month internal coaching certification to over 2000  leaders across the U.S. to support organizations in up leveling their ability to develop individuals and teams. 
5. Built the operations, hiring practices and project management strategy for an Automotive M&A firm which closed $2 billion in transactions in year one. 
6. Designed and delivered a comprehensive international train-the-trainer program to support people leaders of one of the world's largest consumer products companies to leverage a leadership assessment platform. 
7. Built and oversaw an entire coaching services arm for an organizational consulting firm.
8. Delivered thousands of hours of 1-1 and team coaching services across industry, culture and organization size.
9. Supporting thousands of entrepreneurs in designing processes, services and pricing structures to create scalable and profitable businesses. 
10. Built an entire HR process for a behavioral therapy practice providing over $1M in contracted services and supporting over 50 service providers.