My Leadership Roots

For more than 20 years, I have worked in leadership roles across sport, sustainability, higher education and currently lead a global team with an international NGO focused on advancing human rights and gender equality. My role has often been the same in each field to collaborate on the design and delivery of programs, develop, retain, and grow a talented team, and activate strategic plans to move from idea to action.

Time after time, I noticed technical skills were never the real barrier. The real important work was more personal. Navigating self-doubt. Developing positive habits. Enhancing emotional intelligence. Clarity of values to inform decisions. Confidence to step into a bigger role.

This realization led me to complete a Master of Arts in Global Leadership at Royal Roads University, train with the Co-Active Training Institute, obtain EQ-i 2.0 certification and become a Playing Big facilitator. Each framework provided structure and evidence to something I had already been doing intuitively. Helping people tune into their own wisdom and act on it.

My approach is centred around the belief clients are already resourceful, creative and whole. When working together, we are partners in critical thinking and form a collaborative partnership to move closer toward their goals and ideal state of being.

A Shift Towards Holistic Wellbeing

Alongside my professional path, another journey was quietly growing to find a better balance for myself. As a former competitive athlete and someone who enjoys being constantly-in-motion, I have learned (with great difficulty) to pace myself. As I focused on increasing my own energy and wellbeing, I also learned to redefine what it means to live a life on purpose and show up in a more sustainable way.

Most recently, I researched and explored holistic practices to support myself and spent my spare time learning traditional plant uses and studying herbal actions in a practical, everyday way. Herbalism taught me something leadership theory never could. Growth happens in different seasons, it is important to create the conditions necessary for expansion, and the simple truth that nothing blooms all year. Rest is not failure ... thoughtful, seasonal recovery is essential to perform at our best.

This education now informs everything I offer. Not as a replacement for coaching or leadership education, but as a deeper foundation beneath it that supports overall health and wellbeing. I care deeply about designing a more regenerative and humane way of living and working. One that values inner development as well as our relationship to the communities and natural systems that sustain us.

Leaping Fox Consulting exists as a place for that work to unfold.

Thanks for being part of our community,

Stephanie