Stephanie Barbour

CEO, Barbour Leadership
PCC, International Coaching Federation

Stephanie Barbour

CEO, Barbour Leadership
PCC, International Coaching Federation

Meet Stephanie

Stephanie is a seasoned executive coach, trusted advisor, and leadership consultant. For over twenty-five years, she has coached C-level executives, senior executives and emerging leaders to cultivate and apply high-performance leadership skills, enabling them to drive visionary initiatives and transform organizational culture.

She is passionate about helping leaders unlock their unique leadership style by helping them master high impact skills, and lead with intention and purpose. Her clients become confident, courageous change agents—navigating complex relationships, securing stakeholder support, and building high-performing teams.

Stephanie partners with leaders across a diverse range of industries, including technology and cloud computing, biotech and pharmaceuticals, fintech and financial services, social media, energy, and entertainment. She customizes every coaching engagement to the leader and organization.

Areas of Excellence

  • Executive Presence
  • Influence Skills
  • Communication Skills
  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Transition leadership
  • Stakeholder Relationships

Personal Areas of Interest

  • Aikido, Blackbelt
  • Pickleball
  • Hiking and exploring wild nature
  • Interspecies communication/bird language
  • Enjoying great food and conversation with friends and family

  • Stephanie is that coach that delivers a rare combination of intellect, discipline, and compassion. She helped me to zero in on the true critical areas to understand my intentions and instill behavior changes.

    – L. Jasmine Kim
    CMO, Sutter Health
  • Stephanie’s coaching was highly agile, customized coaching that adapted to our conversations, 360-degree feedback, and situational contexts, while maintaining a clear focus on my long-term aspirations.

    – Suresh Shetty
    Sr Director, Cisco
  • I have transformed my style to become more of a coach-than-a-critic…become an effective leader for my directs with trusted delegation and safety framework…increased my executive presence in high stakes meetings, and letting go and sponsoring more collaboration than forcing outcomes.

    – P.P.S. Narayan
    Sr. Director of Eng and Operations, Apple
  • I hired Stephanie to help me scale my leadership to the business, which included developing my team, prioritizing my time differently and driving decisions and accountability down. Her coaching was invaluable in reaching and surpassing my goals

    – Yannis Dosios
    Head of Global Client Solutions, Pinterest
  • Stephanie is an outstanding coach. Her experience, process, and ability to get one to realize one’s strengths and weaknesses was extremely helpful for me.

    – Peter Ku
    VP & Chief Industry Strategist, Informatica
  • While hearing positive feedback is always nice, hearing what you need to improve is tough (but necessary)! Stephanie went through an extensive report with me and we produced a plan. The exercise was invaluable.

    – Amanda Blevins
    VP, CTO Americas BMC Software

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