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GROWTH STAGE AND BRAND EQUITY
Growth stage leaders and teams face unique challenges as they transition from establishing their foundation to driving sustained success. These challenges often include maintaining organizational culture, adapting leadership styles, and aligning teams while addressing the complexities of profitability and operations. We believe that our unique approaches to leveraging brand equity are best used by companies and organizations that are beyond startup phases and sitting on established processes and protocols for their work.
According to McKinsey & Company, growth-stage organizations require clear strategies to balance innovation and efficiency, build high-performing teams, and preserve their mission and values while expanding their impact. Addressing these needs ensures leaders navigate their growth phase effectively while maintaining focus on long-term success (McKinsey & Company).
With over 30 years of entrepreneurial expertise, Stephanie D. McKenzie and her team support growth-stage founders, leaders and teams. As a fractional professional, brand strategist, learning and development expert, TEDx speaker, and award-winning marketer, Stephanie brings deep experience to the table—including her work as a multi-certified coach and former college professor. She’s had the privilege of building, teaching, and leading across a wide range of brands—from solopreneurs to enterprises earning $125K to $15M annually.
She’s also the founder of The CoE (The College of Empowerment).
HOW YOU CAN Work with US…
Brand Development + Leadership Development
We believe that brand development is the foundation for communications, operations and leadership. We build brands but have a special affinity for leveraging Brand Equity through learning systems and thought leadership. As a growth stage leader or team, you know that cookie cutter programs and generic business platitudes will not work. You need a customized strategy…let us create one for you.
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Private Personal Development (Coaching)
Work with Stephanie and our coaching team in a one-on-one or group in a VIP coaching relationship to be supported in your goals. Her coaching approach is comprehensive, as she holds 13 coaching certifications and is one of the foremost unlicensed authorities on people pleasing and high-achieving behavior.
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Speaking and Teaching Engagements
Bring Stephanie’s unique blend education, motivation and empowerment to your group. As a TEDx speaker, trainer, Amazon bestselling author, award-winning marketer and former business professor your group is guaranteed to experience positive impact and leave with actionable steps.
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The College of Empowerment
Enroll in our Intensives, Masterminds, Incubators or join The College of Empowerment. We offer customized learning–professional development and leadership development solutions for groups and teams. We specialize in offering accessible (low-investment) brand development courses, mindset courses, business courses and our Coaching for Leaders certificate program. We’re on Udemy, too.
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A Few testimonials…
We have supported founders, leaders and teams with brand development, leadership development and coaching services. We have launched coaching practices, product-bsed brands, rescued failing businesses, shifted mindsets, created products, re-organized operational procedures, cultivated organizational culture and provided countless aha moments. Though the goals have varied, the outcome is always to empower the business owners and leaders that we serve to achieve success–personally and proesssionally.
Coach Stephanie was one of the most entertaining, enlightening speakers Grinnell has ever seen. The Iowa cornfields did not quite know what to expect when inviting Stephanie to our anti-relationship, pro-hook-up/one-night stand campus, but all of the students were surprised by her realness.
I thoroughly enjoyed working with Coach Steph on “Spring Clean Your Love Life” teleclass. Her ideas on how to clear out relics from old relationships from various aspects of one’s life we’re both insightful and actionable and undoubtedly effective for any of the participants who put them to use.
I couldn’t have been more pleased with the content of her presentations. Working with Stephanie was a wonderful experience. She is great at captivating an audience. We received amazing feedback with one stating “This was one of the best. Bring her back again.” I can’t recommend her enough!