@Stake Performance and i@ccel™ represent a growing team of highly experienced leadership development specialists, established coaches and strategic partners.  Our team consists of more than 50 highly experienced coaches and facilitators available for appropriate engagements.

Founder’s Synopsis

Stephen is a senior leadership consultant, executive coach, facilitator and performance acceleration specialist with over 20 years of experience in delivering bottom line results for senior leaders with Fortune 500 companies, subject matter experts at leading institutions, entrepreneurs and small businesses. He is an experienced entrepreneur, a published author on workforce motivation, Founder of @Stake Performance —a coaching and consulting firm that achieves game-changing performance breakthroughs for individuals and teams by decoding root-level factors and creating systems for behavior alignment and sustaining next-level results, and Creator of i@ccel Performance Accelerator™ – a cloud based, innovative process for developing and aligning next-level performance for leaders and teams.

Background

Prior to his current positions, he built an internationally successful company (BodyGlide), developed and managed international teams, and was a Co-Founder in a behavioral assessment technology firm where he partnered with Korn Ferry International to assess over 1 million leaders as well as recruit, develop and retain senior executives with the most influential companies worldwide. Over the years he has played a direct hand in the transformation and retention of key leaders and high performing teams as well helping companies generate 100’s of millions in annual revenue and achieve targeted successes.

Industry Experience

Stephen coaches, trains, facilitates and advises middle to C-level leaders, business owners, entrepreneurs and teams across industries, including healthcare, technology, finance, consumer goods and real estate, and across languages and cultures, from USA to Asia and Europe to the Middle East.

Coaching Approach

In addition to traditional approaches to executive coaching and the use of tools, techniques and assessments from a wide variety of vetted resources, Stephen is an expert at identifying and connecting intrinsic individual qualities with strategy and goals to achieve organizational results and strengthen culture. Drawing from extensive personal experience and “best in class” models and techniques from the fields of leadership, behavioral science, mindfulness, innovation and business, he unleashes and aligns next-level performance throughout an entire team and organization. His clients, large and small, say that Stephen delivers lasting ROI by facilitating mission critical self-awareness, implementing customized frameworks to align effort with targeted outcomes, teaching hard edges to soft skills, increasing trust and communication effectiveness between stakeholders and strengthening the quality and efficiency of relationships and processes.

Education & Assessments

• BA, UC Santa Barbara
• MBA, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
• Certified in Center for Creative Leadership’s suite of assessments, FIRO-B, Hogan, Workplace Big 5, Decision Styles, Career Concepts, GIAL, Reina Trust Scale, IPSI, MBTI and Influence Style Indicator