I have worked with a few different coaches, but none have held a candle to her ability to connect, create a safe space, and successfully hold the mirror to reflect back the essence of what I was saying. She was especially gifted at digging out what was beneath the surface of my words. As a result, I was able to have breakthroughs I had struggled to get to with other coaches for years.
Stephanie Laplante
Stephanie is an experienced talent management executive with significant business experience in a large multi-national healthcare company. She is a highly sought after and trusted advisor to senior executives who want to become better leaders, who lead large-scale, complex transformational change, and who want to engage and align organizations to create high-performance cultures. Stephanie has worked with senior leaders at GSK, BMS, AstraZeneca, HCl, Novartis, Genmab, CSL Behring, Women’s Way (nonprofit), and Food Trust (nonprofit).
As a leader herself, she has a proven track record of turning around business results by focusing large teams on key priorities, developing capabilities, and creating a high-performance culture. After a successful sales career, Stephanie became an organizational development consultant. One of her biggest achievements was leading the organizational development work for a global digital transformation program, successfully executing a new organizational design, change management plan, and ways of working using technology to communicate with healthcare professionals. Stephanie was also a primary contributor to GSK winning the 2016 ICF PRISM Award for the company’s Accelerating Difference for Women Program and internal coaching program.
Select Client Results
- Coached a new leader recruited to launch a new vaccine. Coaching helped him navigate organizational politics and complexity to prioritize the success of the brand. The launch was best in the world for a new vaccine, and he won the Galien Prize.
- Coached the Sr. VP of LATAM Consumer Healthcare to turn around business results while developing emotional intelligence, communication skills, and the ability to use challenge to develop more creative consumer focused solutions.
- Coached the Sr. VP of LATAM Consumer Healthcare to turn around business results while developing emotional intelligence, communication skills, and the ability to use challenge to develop more creative consumer focused solutions.
- Coached Sr. VP of Technology in R&D so to transform his organization to leapfrog into new digital technology.
- Coached the CMO and his team to integrate talent from two companies more quickly, while develping trust, new ways of working, and a common approach to develop future leaders.
- Coached a diverse female leader stuck in middle management. With coaching, she learned to be her authentic self, be confident in who she is as a leader, and continue to use her courage to challenge the status quo. She became a CMO in a large multi-national company.
Areas of Expertise
- Executive Coaching
- Team Coaching
- Group Coaching
- Women in Leadership
- Conversational Intelligence
- Strategic Career Planning
- Building High Performing Teams
- Executive Presence
- Inclusion & Diversity
Professional Experience
- Head of Coaching North America & Latin America – GSK
- Head, Talent Management and Leadership Development - GSK
- Digital Transformation OD Lead - GSK
- Field Vice President, Sales - GSK
Certifications and Education
- PCC, International Coaching Federation
- Coach U Coaching Training
- Balanced Scorecard – Kaplan
- Laser Coaching
- Emotional Intelligence – Hay Group
- Conversational Intelligence – Judith Glasser, PhD
- MS – Organizational Development, UPENN
- BS – Biology, Fairfield University