Stephanie Judd
Areas of Focus
Business, Leadership, Women Empowerment, Technology, Health Care, Storytelling, Communications
Based In
Denver, CO
Speaker Fee Ranges
$10000 Plus
Speaker Biography
Stephanie Judd teaches leaders what to do when a great idea — well argued, well supported, and genuinely right — still isn't enough.
She met that problem as a grad student, presenting $31.7 million in savings to five executives who called it brilliant and then did nothing about it. She spent years working out why, and the last ten teaching the answer.
Stephanie is Managing Partner at Wolf & Heron and co-created its Influential Communicator Framework. More than 3,500 professionals have earned her Influential Storyteller certification, and 97% rate her programs excellent. She was also coached on a one-meter springboard by an Olympic gold medalist, which explains more than you'd think.
She met that problem as a grad student, presenting $31.7 million in savings to five executives who called it brilliant and then did nothing about it. She spent years working out why, and the last ten teaching the answer.
Stephanie is Managing Partner at Wolf & Heron and co-created its Influential Communicator Framework. More than 3,500 professionals have earned her Influential Storyteller certification, and 97% rate her programs excellent. She was also coached on a one-meter springboard by an Olympic gold medalist, which explains more than you'd think.
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Stephanie has spoken to audiences worldwide, from the Product Management Festival in Zurich to DisruptHR events across Colorado, and has led communication programs at Google, Pfizer, Discover, and the University of Michigan. She's most often booked for leadership conferences, sales kickoffs, change and transformation programs, and technical organizations where influence matters more than authority.
Her delivery is high-energy, interactive, and deliberately slide-free — a choice that keeps a room leaning in rather than sitting back.
Her delivery is high-energy, interactive, and deliberately slide-free — a choice that keeps a room leaning in rather than sitting back.
Everyone Nodded. Nothing Changed.
Why a convincing argument isn't enough — and the story that does the rest.
You built the case. You checked the numbers. You walked into the room, made the argument, and every person in it agreed with you. And then nothing happened.
Every story has two parts. There are the scenes — what actually happened, in detail, as you lived it. And there's the summary — what you decided it meant. Summaries live in the head, and the head will agree or disagree. Scenes live in the body, and the body is what acts. The case still has to be good; that's what earns the nod. But most of us hand people the summary and keep the scenes for ourselves, because we already lived them and forget that nobody else did.
Funny, personal, and usable the same afternoon.
Audiences leave able to:
- Hear the difference between a summary and a scene
- Catch the summaries running quietly in their own heads
- Build the two minutes that gets an idea into somebody's body instead of just onto their agenda
Ideal for:
Leadership conferences · sales kickoffs · product and technical organizations · change and transformation programs · research and clinical teams
Why a convincing argument isn't enough — and the story that does the rest.
You built the case. You checked the numbers. You walked into the room, made the argument, and every person in it agreed with you. And then nothing happened.
Every story has two parts. There are the scenes — what actually happened, in detail, as you lived it. And there's the summary — what you decided it meant. Summaries live in the head, and the head will agree or disagree. Scenes live in the body, and the body is what acts. The case still has to be good; that's what earns the nod. But most of us hand people the summary and keep the scenes for ourselves, because we already lived them and forget that nobody else did.
Funny, personal, and usable the same afternoon.
Audiences leave able to:
- Hear the difference between a summary and a scene
- Catch the summaries running quietly in their own heads
- Build the two minutes that gets an idea into somebody's body instead of just onto their agenda
Ideal for:
Leadership conferences · sales kickoffs · product and technical organizations · change and transformation programs · research and clinical teams
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