Wonder Woman in Business, Stephanie Kusibab

Susan Freeman

January 3, 2020

Podcasts, Strategy

Stephanie Kusibab

Stephanie Kusibab is a strategy consultant with more than twenty years’ experience assisting client organizations with strategic planning, mission and vision creation, market analysis, leadership development and identification of new business opportunities. Her broad business experience and perspective help her to quickly understand and assess a situation and identify growth opportunities across any industry or profession. As a skilled facilitator she leads high-stakes conversations and training that resets expectations and establishes ground rules for ongoing success of leadership teams and boards of directors. Stephanie also helps organizational leaders guide their teams during uncertain times with leadership, change management and strategy coaching and serves as a sounding board and unbiased observer to help identify opportunities for improved performance.

Stephanie owns and manages Essentiam, a strategy consultancy serving both non-profit and for-profit organizations and their leaders.

Prior to starting her own firm, Stephanie applied her core competencies as a primary driver in the ongoing growth of numerous SmithBucklin association management clients, including in staff roles for the Legal Marketing Association (LMA), the Clinical Laboratory Management Association (CLMA), Palo Alto Networks’ User Group (Fuel), and the Battery Council International (BCI). As a consultant and strategic advisor at SmithBucklin, Stephanie contributed to strategy and change management initiatives for client organizations across a wide variety of industries and professions, including healthcare, accreditation, technology, telecommunications, building products, retail, hospitality, professional services, manufacturing and transportation.