About Stephanie...

Stephanie is the founder of Intentional Paradigms, a leadership coaching and sustainability / business consulting firm helping visionary executives and entrepreneurs unlock purpose, unleash potential and create their legacy impact.
 
Results focused and highly empathic, Stephanie has a reputation for deep intuition, getting to the heart of the matter quickly building trust and co-creating rapid lasting breakthroughs. She’s been called a business whip with a lightening speed mind and able to spot opportunities in the thickest of challenges. Stephanie is an idea machine, futurist, issue spotter and dot-connector with a knack for word-smithing, positioning, messaging and the art persuasion. 

A sustainability expert and UNSDG advocate, Stephanie is also considered ethical counsel and trusted advisor respected for her wealth of knowledge in business, strategy, marketing and reputation management, law, sustainability and corporate social responsibility, including risk and compliance. She's committed to helping leaders weave a principled sustainability approach into business strategy to advance innovation and positive impact for people, planet and profit. 
 
She is the author of the forthcoming book WAKE UP: Conscious Leadership for a Sustainable World, is a keynote speaker, and the creator of The Sustainability Mindset Shift™ and The Catalyst Map™ among other proprietary strategic methodologies.

Stephanie’s 20+ years working in environmental justice and human rights advocacy, was followed by a career in corporate litigation at Davis Polk. She has been coaching and consulting for 14 years and currently serves as Chair of the American Bar Association’s Environmental Justice Committee.
 
She received her Juris Doctorate (Cum Laude) from New York Law School where she was associate editor on Law Review and the Journal of International & Comparative Law and recipient of the NYLS Public Interest Fellowship. She graduated with a BS in Communications and International Relations from Boston University, completed mediator certification training and is a certified Energy Medicine Practitioner, Mastery Certified Professional Coach and Certified Business Coach and Certified Holistic Health Coach from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and Columbia University’s Teacher’s College. Also certified as a sustainability practitioner from The Center for Sustainability Excellence and a Leadership 360 Profile Consultant through the Leadership Circle. 

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Stephanie has coached, advised, trained and mentored hundreds of entrepreneurs, founders, organizational leaders, executives, lawyers, and board members in essential skills and topics including leadership, mindset, presence, business strategy, influence, sales and negotiations, conscious communications, sustainability, CSR, ESG, radical wellness, holistic health, relationships, and environmental justice.  

Spending years apprenticing with spiritual healers in various South American and African indigenous cultures, she bridges her business acumen to awaken sustainability consciousness in the C-Suite. Stephanie leads special Leadership Retreats and exchanges with Indigenous Teachers in the Amazon and in North America. 

Stephanie is also the founder of Trager Law PLLC, a conscious boutique legal advisory, contracts drafting & strategic business consulting firm helping small businesses and thought leaders ripple their impact and scale their business for growth.

*She's also an athlete and dancer (Congolese) was a martial artist (Capoeira) for 20 years and this right here is where she learned to master energy, influence and persuasion. 

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