Every significant career transition involves a kind of identity reconstruction. The skills that earned the promotion are rarely the ones the new role demands. This coaching helps leaders navigate that passage with intention and self-awareness.
Duke University Psychiatry Residency · Brigham and Women's Hospital Consultation-Liaison Fellowship · Harvard Medical School Faculty · McLean Hospital Director of Education, Division of Geriatric Psychiatry · Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health MPH · Certified Executive Coach
Dr. Stephanie Collier brings a rare combination of clinical expertise and executive coaching methodology to leadership development. Her psychiatry residency at Duke University and consultation-liaison fellowship at Brigham and Women's Hospital provide the clinical foundation, while her faculty role at Harvard Medical School keeps her approach grounded in current behavioral science.
Every significant career transition involves a kind of identity reconstruction. The skills that earned the promotion are rarely the ones the new role demands. This coaching helps leaders navigate that passage with intention and self-awareness.
The founder's identity and the company's identity become entangled in ways that can be both powerful and dangerous. Coaching for founders requires understanding this fusion and helping them develop as leaders even as the organization outgrows its origins. Dr. Collier's leadership transition approach is specifically tailored for Founders, addressing the unique pressures, isolation, and cognitive demands of the role. Her consultation-liaison fellowship training at Brigham and Women's Hospital, focused on the intersection of medical and psychological complexity, translates directly to understanding the multifaceted challenges Founders face.
In consultation-liaison psychiatry, you learn to work where complexity is highest, where straightforward answers are fewest, and where the stakes are real. Dr. Collier's fellowship at Brigham and Women's Hospital trained her in precisely this discipline. Combined with her Duke psychiatry residency and her faculty role at Harvard Medical School, she brings a depth of clinical understanding to executive coaching that traditional approaches cannot replicate. She does not simply coach behaviors. She understands the mechanisms beneath them.
$900-1,250/hour
3-6 month engagements
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