A Little Bit About Me...
Stephanie Ghoston Paul (she/her) is an internationally recognized speaker, racial justice facilitator, organizational development consultant, life coach, and recovering lawyer. She helps people, communities, and companies get in alignment with and fully embody their purpose, in service of a planet where all human beings are free, whole, and enough. She brings over 15 years of experience in advancing equity, fostering inclusive leadership, and sparking systems transformation using racial justice and healing frameworks.
Stephanie’s unique approach skillfully and wholeheartedly combines her sharp legal mind, problem-solving skills, and love of people to powerfully serve clients and dismantle existing exclusive systems and organizational structures. Her consulting practice supports organizations ready to transform their core identity to one that fully embeds anti-oppression and liberatory principles into their organizational culture. She has coached leaders and staff in the nonprofit, for-profit, education, foundation and public sectors and is well versed in assessing organizational culture, tool building, and strategic coaching for equity.
Through her individual life coaching work, she is dedicated to helping high-achieving leaders embrace their brilliance so that they can stop second-guessing their greatness and activate their potential. Stephanie walks alongside her clients as they discover ways to stop hiding, prioritize themselves, and start living on purpose.
She's also a best-selling author featured in: 20 Beautiful Women Volume 3: 20 More Stories That Will Heal Your Soul, Ignite Your Passion, And Inspire Your Divine Purpose; and I Am Beautiful. In her latest community offering, she explores what it means to be a living ancestor through her podcast called Take Nothing When I Die. She enjoys cooking spicy dishes with her partner and finding new flavors of delicious tea.