Stephanie Avants, NBC-HWC, NC
Stephanie Avants is a thought leader and human-centered leadership coach, with more than 20 years of experience guiding businesses through strategic people initiatives. Stephanie is passionate about empowering leaders to accelerate into the AI future of work, not by attempting to keep up, but rather by embracing their innate capacity for human connection. The same human-centered mindset that drives Stephanie's thought leadership also informs her style of coaching. Stephanie is a Fellow, Institute of Coaching, McLean Hospital, a Harvard Medical School Affiliate. She is also a nationally board-certified health coach and certified nutrition consultant, who is acutely aware of the critical role that mental and physical health play in our ability to engage at every level, perform at our best, and remain resilient, both today and in the future.
The EMPOWERED Story
Hi. I’m Stephanie Avants, founder of EMPOWERED Coaching and Consulting. Thank you for taking the time to connect with me here and discover your path to a more resilient, agile, and innovative future. Let’s face it; the game has changed. As the title of Marshall Goldsmith’s New York Times bestseller suggests, “What Got You Here Won’t Get You There.” Expectations continue to increase, with fewer resources available, and the speed of AI sets a dangerously high bar for the already strained human workforce. Our well-established hustle culture has led to inevitable human health consequences. We’ve crashed and burned. We know we can’t keep raising the bar with less and less. An excerpt from the book, “Tomorrowmind,” by Gabriella Rosen Kellerman and Martin Seligamn, does an excellent job of capturing the experience and impact of well-being at work: “Roughly half the US workforce struggles with burnout. Excessive stress at work accounts for $190 billion in healthcare costs each year, plus hundreds of unnecessary deaths.”
The way forward isn’t by continuing to push through or hustle, but rather to recognize our thresholds and strategically let go. This creates what I like to refer to as "nuclear fusion;" creating high-impact results with less. The human workforce can rise to meet the challenges of a VUCA world and an AI future, but only if we recognize that the hustle mindset that got us here won’t get us there.
I founded EMPOWERED to provide leaders with the tools they need to navigate the path through our VUCA world to a future that embraces both AI and our own inherent superpower: human connection. High-impact, innovative solutions for you and your business are waiting to be discovered. You can have a resilient, high-performing, agile workforce. It’s time to stop hustling and start EMPOWERing.
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