Stephanie is a leadership and executive coach, team and relationship systems coach, communications and brand strategist, product designer, and writer with a commitment to the nonprofit, foundation, and higher education sectors. Her company, Mission, is a partner of EAC.

She began her career as a reporter for the Phoenix Business Journal, where she won state and national awards for her coverage of tourism, hospitality, sports business, entrepreneurship, and more. After nearly eight years in the newsroom, she went on to earn an MFA in creative writing-poetry from the University of Arizona, and taught composition and creative writing to UArizona and Pima Community College students.

Steph has held the position of director of communications for both the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona and the University of Arizona Foundation, where she oversaw brand development of the university’s $1 billion comprehensive Arizona Now campaign. She has also served as executive director of two community arts organizations in Tucson, and most recently was associate vice president of philanthropic marketing, communications, and donor relations for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she built a campus-wide program to educate professors, administrators, and faculty on the “how tos” of philanthropy and fundraising. In this role she also co-produced the UNLV Annual Dinner, a stewardship event held at the Bellagio Hotel featuring speakers Caroline Kennedy (2018) and President George W. Bush in conversation with Ari Fleischer (2019).

Steph has studied brand marketing, product design, product innovation, and platform growth through Scott Galloway’s company Section, where she also served as an onboarder. She holds a coaching certification (CPCC) from the Co-Active Leadership Institute, studied team and relationship systems coaching through CRR Global, and is a member of the International Coach Federation (ACC), the largest accreditation and credentialing body for coaches. She writes and publishes articles on coaching on Cento and contributes to Why Is This Interesting?

Steph resides in Las Vegas and is still known to friends and family as Steffie—or Aunt Steffie, if you are a niece or nephew.