From ideas to action,
From reacting to responding,
From managing to leading.

Providing solutions and support for curious and growth-minded leaders and organizations.

ABOUT ALEXIS STERN:

Alexis received her Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Texas at Austin and her Masters in Education from Harvard University. With significant experience coaching in her senior leadership roles and formal training from the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC), she supports her clients on their own leadership journeys by helping them to raise their self-awareness, identify their goals and motivations, and by empowering them to become change agents in their own lives.

Alexis earned her ACC certification from the International Coaching Federation, as well as her Certified Professional Coach, COR.E Dynamics Leadership Specialist Coach, and Energy Leadership Index Master Practitioner certifications from the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching.

LEADERSHIP & EXECUTIVE COACHING:

Leaders across industries including Fortune 500 companies to those in healthcare, communications, education, and diversity, equity, and inclusion have benefited from working with Alexis. She coaches leaders in their authentic development of more effective communications, cognitive empathy, relationship building, values alignment, and collaboration and connection. Her clients consistently leave their sessions with greater clarity, confidence, and attainable and measurable steps for the progress they seek. Most importantly, they identify their desires, define any obstacles currently in their way, and determine how to move past them.

Alexis also works with clients who are considering or pursuing career changes, both to clarify what they are looking for and why, as well as to support clients in preparing for interviews, negotiations, and transitions to new roles.

Client Experiences:

  • Alexis listens thoughtfully and helps me adopt a growth mindset in areas I want to focus. The key to Alexis’s success is that she has been in the trenches as a leader in diverse workplaces. As a result, she is able to seamlessly provide quantifiable and positively-affirming action items at the end of each session, and she empowers clients like me to feel seen, known, valued, and heard by always leading with empathy and authenticity.

    - Stephen Milich, Director of Admission & Financial Aid, The Carlthorp School

  • Alexis asks perspective shifting questions that helped me understand my decision-making process, clarify my why, and act purposefully. Her coaching has made me a better leader, and I can feel and see the impact in my professional and personal life. Each interaction restores my energy and excitement in leading.

    JF, Corporate Chief Operating Officer

  • Through her genuine curiosity, her focus on my success, and her trust in my ability to come up with a solution within myself, I left each session feeling better and more in control every single time. Working with Alexis allowed me to explore my deep feelings and values, which significantly raised my self-awareness and self-respect. Alexis always helped me build more confidence, trust, and appreciation for myself – to become a better me.

    AT, Senior Manager, Microsoft

  • I worked with Alexis during a phase of significant change, including the launch of a new business and end of a romantic relationship. Alexis’s grounded and calm energy, and insightful, curious, and gently challenging inquiry were instrumental in helping me address confidence, fear, and doubt. I am grateful for her help facilitating my breakthrough…to find more clarity and more fully trust myself, acknowledge my strengths and gifts, and step into empowered decisions and confident action towards my vision of success.

    -JM, Small Business Coach & Consultant

  • Alexis is an outstanding executive coach. I needed help determining my career goals and navigating my day to day workplace challenges. Alexis not only provided a wealth of practical knowledge and real life experience, but she helped me see how valuable I was as an employee and supported me effectively advocating for myself. I would recommend her services without hesitation.

    -LM, Health Services Manager & RN

  • Through Alexis’s coaching, I have arrived at a place of clarity regarding issues of concern. Her nonjudgmental questions in our sessions have allowed me to move past old beliefs that were no longer serving me. Our sessions have empowered me to tap into my own power and become my own best expert in resolving challenges in my life.

    -JD, Independent School Administrator

  • Alexis has been instrumental in helping me structure and process a year of career evolution. She has built my confidence in decision making, guided me on communication, and helped me prioritize. I leave our sessions holding on to her insights—all of which lead me to action and, ultimately, further reflection.

    -Claire Goldsmith, Educational Consultant & Incoming Enrollment Management Association Board Chair

  • Changing to a new career can be one of the most challenging times in life, but fortunately I had the coaching of Alexis Stern to help me. Alexis was steadfast in her coaching, which made each step so much easier: making the initial decision to seek change, pursuing the change, interviewing, negotiating and ultimately making the transition.

    I can’t say enough how much smoother my whole journey has been because I had Alexis in my corner. I highly recommend Alexis if you’re thinking about making a career change to have her with you to co-pilot the way forward.

    -AA, COO

  • I am thrilled with my progress with Alexis as a trusted coach and ally. She challenged me on some very deep issues by asking WHY I thought or felt a certain way, helping me identify when I was relying on assumptions versus facts, often addressing areas I had been avoiding. I was able to distinguish between things I can control or not. I really made progress by letting her unlock me from reluctance to action and has made a profound course correction in my life. Thank you Alexis!

    -Richard Hassett, Vice President, Hassett Hardware Company

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CONSULTING:

Alexis’s consulting areas of specialty include organizational culture, building effective teams, and learning and leadership development and strategy at corporations and educational institutions.

She uses her nearly 20 years of experience in instructional design and award-winning teaching to develop and facilitate effective, engaging learning experiences. Whether she’s designing and facilitating a series of data-informed leadership team workshops for a non-profit, redesigning a company’s new leader orientation to amplify engagement and align with core values, or consulting in leadership development for a top-tier law school, she builds meaningful, purpose-driven, and engaging experiences that promote growth and understanding and meet any organization’s needs. And as a disabled female and advocate for inclusion, Alexis also helps organizations review their inclusion policies to increase equity and empathy for all constituents. 

Instructional Design:

She creates customized presentations, facilitator scripts, and participant materials for organizations to deliver engaging and effective learning internally. This may also include revisions to existing offerings. Alexis provides train-the-trainer sessions for those who will facilitate internally.

Workshop/Retreat Development & Facilitation:

Alexis develops fully customized workshops/retreats for leadership teams, which includes a needs analysis and collaboratively defining learning objectives, and then developing and facilitating workshops. Workshops are lauded for being high-touch and individualized experiences, and include engaging activities, applicable content, and customized printable participant guides, as well as post-workshop data collection to inform ongoing growth.

Leadership Assessments:

Alexis is a certified to administer and debrief the Korn Ferry 360 (which assesses leadership skills and competencies) as well as the Korn Ferry Emotional and Social Competencies Index (ESCI) 360 (which assesses a leader’s emotional intelligence). She is also certified in iPEC’s Energy Leadership Index self-awareness assessment. Each assessment includes administration, an extensive report, and a 90 minute insights and action planning session.

Leadership Development Strategy:

Alexis provides leadership development strategy for organizations nationwide. Alexis partners with organizations to evaluate the effectiveness of existing leadership development programs or develop new strategy. This robust process includes needs analyses to identify desired outcomes, and the development a comprehensive leadership learning strategy inclusive of course creation, 1:1 coaching, and 360 assessments. She also helps organizations develop internal coaching programs.

Whatever your organizational learning goals, Alexis can support your needs effectively.

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Consulting Client Experiences:

  • "I was looking for a consultant who could work with our Leadership Team over the course of a school year to develop a true student/community-centered collegiality while developing greater trust and respect for each other. As a former K-12 administrator, Alexis Stern understands school communities and the importance of building a dynamic team. Alexis is highly communicative, creative, funny, intuitive, and thoughtful, and each of her workshops challenged us individually and as a group. Her workshops were strategic and focused, and we have seen very positive results. I highly recommend Alexis for any of your leadership coaching needs!"

    -Joe Scuito, Head of School, Mayfield Junior School

  • “I was truly fortunate to be a part of one of Alexis's leadership workshops. Through her process, she has a way of taking the participants on a journey of self-discovery even though we participate as a group. She is able to meet us where we are, while taking us forward together.”

    -Dr. Allie Thurmond, Asset Manager, Equinor

  • “Alexis created a bespoke series of sessions that transformed strangers into collaborative team members in a matter of hours. [To do so,] she listened closely to our specific needs and goals, asked thoughtful questions, and delivered all materials on time. It’s not surprising that a number of participants singled out Alexis’ facilitation skills as critical to their groups' overall success. Being able to trust that she would masterfully execute on our vision was truly priceless.”

    ~ Reanna Ursin, Executive Director, Malone Schools Online Network

  • "Alexis's instructional design services are excellent. She was so quick to understand our company's vision and values. The orientation she created for us is cohesive, visually exciting, and extremely engaging for new hires. I appreciate that the script was written in a way that anyone in leadership could easily present what she created. No detail was spared, and she made space for ongoing feedback. Our new hires are already benefitting from a greater understanding of our expectations and culture."

    -Jacqueline Anderson, COO Hassett Hardware Company

  • “[Alexis’s workshop} facilitation and flow are superb. Also the incredible flexibility that Alexis provides to let participants guide discussions as needed is unique and wonderful. There is so much oxygen and support provided from the very beginning…highly collaborative, inspiring, professional!”

    - Holly Angelopolous, Learning Content Curator & Design Manager, The Walt Disney Company

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Leadership workshops provide intentional activities to get to know each individual in the room.

Leadership workshops provide intentional activities to get to know each individual in the room.

A mixture of full group, small group, and individual activities are thoughtfully included to maximize learning and engagement.

A mixture of full group, small group, and individual activities are thoughtfully included to maximize learning and engagement.

Sharing thoughts and ideas in a variety of ways is commonplace in Alexis's workshops.

Sharing thoughts and ideas in a variety of ways is commonplace in Alexis's workshops.

Team-building and trust-building activities are unique, engaging, and learner-centered.

Team-building and trust-building activities are unique, engaging, and learner-centered.

Team members - new or old - will build trust, develop shared goals and a common language, and be prepared for what's next. (This group had not met one another until this workshop! Here they are at the workshop's close, ready to continue the work!)

Team members - new or old - will build trust, develop shared goals and a common language, and be prepared for what's next. (This group had not met one another until this workshop! Here they are at the workshop's close, ready to continue the work!)

Alexis's workshop participants are provided with customized materials to use in session and refer to afterward.

Alexis's workshop participants are provided with customized materials to use in session and refer to afterward.

Each workshop's team-building and trust-building activities are uniquely tailored to an organization's needs. And they're fun, too!

Each workshop's team-building and trust-building activities are uniquely tailored to an organization's needs. And they're fun, too!

On-going work with this leadership team, coupled by 1:1 coaching for some, has yielded significant growth in team effectiveness, communicating directly, and understanding each other's and the team's strengths and areas for growth.

On-going work with this leadership team, coupled by 1:1 coaching for some, has yielded significant growth in team effectiveness, communicating directly, and understanding each other's and the team's strengths and areas for growth.

Anonymous Participant Feedback from Alexis Stern’s Customized Leadership Workshops & Retreats

  • "I found the whole experience to be truly terrific."

  • "I can't speak highly enough of my experience."

  • "It was exactly what I was looking for."

  • "There was so much intentionality placed on us becoming a functional and trusting group in a very short amount of time."

  • "The details were impeccably organized, [fellow participants] I was able to build connections with are experienced and wise, and I am genuinely excited."

  • "The exercises that we participated in really helped us to build trust and a team mindset almost immediately."

  • "The use of time was incredibly valuable, and the organization was wonderful."

  • "The way different personalities and styles were identified and then grouped together could not have been better."

  • "This was really effective."

  • "Fun and informative!"

  • "The content was not what I expected...but the outcome could well exceed my expectations."

  • "Far beyond what I had hoped or wanted."

  • "A thoughtfully, organized experience."

  • "The structure of these days has been deliberate and clear, with the focus on building collegiality, trust, and a positive excitement."

  • "A tremendous start to our team-building work."

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