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Stacie Torres, CEO Coach

As Founder & Practice Lead, Stacie specializes in guiding CEO's, Chief Officers, Sales Leaders, and Women in Senior Roles

Spotlight Coach: Clive Prout, CPCC

With long-term experience as a Co-Active Training Institute Faculty, Clive has expertise in Co-Leadership and in coaching Technology Leaders

The Leadership Circle

As masters of their craft, our deep bench of Leadership Consultants & Executive Coaches include former c-suite executives who have managed hundreds of millions and led many hundreds of people.

We guide leaders to even greater levels of collective & individual leadership effectiveness.

I’m Stacie Torres. At InnerLead, we have a two-fold mission.

❖ We exist to grow your performance and your company’s profitability and
❖ We exist to deepen your well-being and peace of mind.

In simpler terms, we converge the world of business and money with your enjoyment of meaningful work and a fulfilling life. We grow HEALTHY WEALTH.

Here is why…

At age 14, I was a high-achieving teenager involved in theatre, cheer, student leadership, and every academic challenge available. And I loved it.

I took every career assessment test my university offered. After a tour into and out a PhD program in Industrial-Organizational Psychology, I found myself having accidentally started my own boutique consulting business. I quickly rose to the top 1% of income earners, managed a bundle of clients and engagements that I loved, and was so stressed and without sleep, I had clients asking about my personal well-being.

I had nailed the 3-fold magic formula for work success:
1) client results I cared about,
2) enjoyment of the work itself, and
3) tripling revenues.

With tenacity, I had refused to choose between the classic options of either love your work OR make good money. But with that same tenacity...I didn’t have the critical ingredient for a meaningful, whole life – a sustainable, personal life outside of work. I needed a way to unhook and just be. I was neglecting my sleep, my most important relationships, and just squeezing in an occasional improv class on Sundays for fun.

This theme of high achievement without sustainability way runs strong. Fast forward to recent times. My husband and partner, Frank, and I have two funny, wise, wise-cracking, and handsome sons. (They have a lot in common with their dad).

Here is what happened. ↓

I had just returned home from a 2-day workshop and I was buzzing from the high of happy clients, big results, and fun work. My 2 sons must have sensed my good mood as a time to get real with me.

I was standing in the kitchen with both of them. I don’t remember which one spoke or the exact words they said, but it was something like this…

“We know you're successful, and you say you love your work, BUT…”

We don’t want to be like you.

Here I was thinking about them creating abundant work lives and all they could say was,

You are too stressed and it’s just not worth it. We don't want to be like you.

I was a deflated balloon.

I knew that I needed to make big changes, but I wasn’t sure where to start. I needed to do it for my kids. How could I expect them to do something I couldn’t do myself? And probably more important than that, I needed to make changes for myself. Or else I wasn’t going to be a help to anyone in the long run.

I will spare you the details of the year from hell. Some might call that year a Breakdown. And in some ways, it was. It was a breakdown of the old ways of doing things - ways that had served me well. But ways that had their own limits. I now look at that year as The Awakening. Waking up to what is most important and refusing to settle for less - no matter how scary things get. And so, as you might imagine, I do my work from a deeper place now. I am not yet fully transformed. I am a work in progress. And yet, I have very personal reasons for doing this work. I do it for me, for my teenage boys who are becoming young men in the world, for my husband, my family, my friends, my clients, and for the greater ripple effect to the world.

If I understand anything, it’s that I understand what it’s like to be extremely “successful” on the outside and internally miserable on the inside. To let the stress of achievement rob you of the very joy and life you are trying to create.

I also know from personal experience that you can be trying as hard as you know how to serve your biggest stakeholders and also be blind to things that you're doing that are sabotaging your effectiveness as a leader.

And through these two painful experiences, I'm uniquely qualified to be your adventure guide.

I hope you'll join us.

We have guided CEOs and their executive teams to work better together to achieve breakthrough business results. We’ve helped chief officers and senior executives become stronger leaders, drive business performance, and transform their personal fulfillment. As facilitators, curriculum designers, speakers, and executive coaches, we have worked with some of the most highly accomplished leaders in some of the largest organizations. We are their steady guides as they navigate powerful internal and external changes. It would be a privilege to learn how we can help you do the same.

Official Bio - Stacie Torres, CPCC

Areas of Expertise

CEOs & C-Suite Executive Coaching
Leadership Team Effectiveness
Sales Leaders
Women in Senior Roles

Education

Ph.D.-Level Studies in Industrial-Organizational Psychology, University of South Florida
Organization Development – 1-Year Internship in Greenville, South Carolina
Studied Abroad in Greece, Israel, Tanzania, and Kenya
Taught college statistics and report writing at The University of South Florida
Magna Cum Laude & Phi Beta Kappa Bachelor’s, Furman University, Psychology
Co-Active (CTI) & International Coach Federation (ICF) Certified
Certified in Individual & Collective Effectiveness Assessments

You Can Also Find Me...

Enjoying a comedy show with my husband, waterfall rappelling on an adventure trip with our boys who are men, or dancing with abandon at a Prince Tribute Band with dear friends

Business Performance. Leadership Effectiveness.

At InnerLead,
we help clients do 3 things:

1. Work with your biggest stakeholders

To achieve higher levels of
self-awareness and effectiveness

2. Prioritize

Without Sacrifice

3. Lead from the inside out

Enjoy a little more peace of mind and a lot less buzz from stress-fueled achievement

The results clients achieve in transforming their effectiveness and in creating positive personal changes are REAL.

The impact to the business is in the multi-millions. And the impact to these leaders’ personal lives is often called “priceless.” Again and again.

And the reality is that we, as your Adventure Guides, are also in progress. We are walking up and down a series of mountains alongside of you.

Sometimes we find ourselves climbing a giant rock without much ground underneath us. This is why having a Guide at your side can make all the difference in the World.

We are Students of Human Thriving:

Our success as executive leaders is not true success unless it is holistic – affecting our whole lives. We want to hit our aggressive revenue targets and implement powerful new technology that thrills are biggest customers. And we want to enjoy the renewal and rest of vibrant relationships and pursuits that are strictly for fun. Our success as executive leaders is not sustainable unless the leadership team of which we are a part and the teams and divisions we lead are thriving holistically as well: achieving big results, deeply engaged in their work, and loving their whole lives. We want to model both sustainable achievement and create teams and workplaces where people are eager and energized to show up each day. We want the ability to step away from work, knowing we have achieved mind-blowing results, and do so in ways that inspire our children to follow in our footsteps.

We are Energized by The Ripple Effect:

We are inspired to help CEOs create high-performing executive teams that are trust-filled, collaborative, and inspirational. These executive teams then positively impact the next level of direct reports and the next and the next until each employee throughout the organization is motivated to work on big results with a team they love. We want all leaders at every level to be so positively impacted that they become different leaders at home to their spouses, their children, their families, and their neighbors.

We are Inspired by The Real Clients:

Ultimately, the real clients that InnerLead serves are executive families and the families of those employees throughout the organization. These are our favorite stories and case studies.

If you don’t think this is possible, I invite you to reconsider. If you want what hundreds of leaders before you have created, in an experience that often “exceeds expectations,” let’s talk.

OUR CORE VALUES

#1 "GO FIRST" Initiative
We work with leaders who want to go first and lead by example.

#2 Connectedness
We are all one. We are each a critical part of a larger whole.

#3 Multiple Perspectives
We seek to see what they see. Again and again. Our blind spots just move around.

#4 Positive Purpose
We use the bad for good. We are fiercely committed to a good that matters to us personally.

#5 Learning
We extract the learning from everything – the wins and the losses.

#6 Tenacity
We rest & rejuvenate. Then we begin again. Full commitment until the finish line.

If you're willing to take the journey of leadership growth (as uncomfortable as it may be), let’s talk about what that might look like.

Our teams work with CEOs, whole executive teams, chief officers, and the entire extended leadership team in cross-functional cohorts.

We are experts in leadership effectiveness, training leaders in the coach approach, and in creating scalable, long-term solutions that keep the transformation and breakthroughs alive year after year, after the formal program has concluded.

Let’s talk about what kinds of results you are looking to create in your business, and whether we're a good fit to get you there.

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