FULL TRANSPARENCY: I. Break. Brands.
HI! I’M STEPHANIE. If you landed on this page, you’re either curious about me or serious about growing yourself/your business. Regardless, we can explore al of the possibilities to help you win.
I lead a flywheel that grows and supports solo and lean founders in achieving what they want, how they want, through the work they do in the world, by converging coaching, learning, and brand leadership.
Coach. Foundership + Entrepreneurship Educator. Former business and marketing professor.
Serving both the business and the business owner with safe space and customized strategies.
Fractional CMO/CGO. Brand Strategist. Award-winning marketer.
Thousands of client wins. Decades of experience.
I need answers and action steps I can take.
Accessibility is one of our core values. We have a few ways to give you real strategy, real community, and real next steps, at a price and pace that actually makes sense for where you are. No crazy commitments, no cookie-cutter playbook. Just answers, and the action steps that work for you and what you’re building.
One-to-one Coaching programs for personal development, accountability and goal setting, to name a few.
FounderMind
Map Your (Founder) Mind Assessment
The CoE (The College of Empowerment) Learning Labs
I need STRATEGY AND LEADERSHIP INSIDE MY ORGANIZATION.
When I come into your organization, I’m not here to be a thought partner who hands you more homework. I’m here to lead and do the work to grow your business and your capacity. Service options include:
Fractional CMO/CGO
GTM Leadership
Brand Strategist
Thought Leadership and Learning Strategies
Speaking and Training your team.
WHAT IS A FLYWHEEL?
Our flywheel is built on the belief that support is necessary for growth, and that not everyone can drop four or five figures to “invest in themselves.” If you don’t create an entry point that makes sense for where someone is, that doesn’t overwhelm them, and isn’t some cookie-cutter system somebody made up because they did one thing once and wrote down the steps, you’re not actually serving people, you’re gatekeeping growth behind a price tag. That’s not what we do here. We want you to do the work you do in the world, served in a way that’s still about you, your goals, and how you want to get there. I don’t have a cookie cutter. I don’t even eat cookies. (Smile!) That’s why the flywheel exists.
Spaghetti wall. Spitball. Burn it down. Build it Back. 90 Minutes!
The FounderMind EXPERIENCE
One in three founders are doing it completely alone, but you don’t have to.
No co-founder. No board. No one who gets it.
You want answers and actionable steps. We give you strategy and sanity. That’s FounderMind.
FounderMind is a safe space for founders to spaghetti wall, spitball, burn it down and build it back up. In 90 minutes.
The sessions are thoughtful and powerful, created for founders who know that they have a place to go that supports both the business and the business owner.
Founder To FOUNDER...
Starting was the easy part. Right? You had an idea, went straight to Canva, started a website, and you are off to the races. Officially a founder.
Yay!
And now. You’re just not sure.
Yes you’ve had wins. Yes you’ve achieved. But for some reason whatever used to work, either doesn’t work as well, or doesn’t work at all.
Believe me I’ve been there.My name is Stephanie D McKenzie and I am a founder myself. I bring more than 30 years of entrepreneurship, small business ownership and marketing into the work you do in the world.To put it mildly…I. Break. Brands.
Whether you enter our groovy flywheel through our FounderMind quiz/events, fractional CMO leadership, coaching programs or simply take a class at The COE, we have developed an system to help you achieve your goals without cookie cutter strategies and without offering you one way to get there.
My goal is to be the support I needed when I started, when I got stuck and when I shifted.
I look forward to serving you!
A Few testimonials…
We have supported founders, leaders and teams with brand development, leadership development and coaching services. We have launched coaching practices, product-based 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 professsionally.
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!
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