About Us

Executive Coaching & Leadership Development

For Professional Services Leaders on the Partner Path

You may recognize this in your high-potential professionals:

  • Strong performers, but unclear on what partnership truly requires.

  • Technically excellent, but still developing leadership presence, skilled communication, and influence.

  • Taking on more responsibility, while learning to delegate effectively and grow others.

  • Capable, but not yet consistently trusted in senior rooms.

  • Strong practitioner, transitioning into rainmaker.

This is the shift we help leaders and firms navigate every day.

Who We Work With

We partner with law firms and professional services organizations to develop future partners and senior leaders. After our work together, clients report:

  • Communicating with clarity and credibility in senior and client conversations

  • Delegating effectively and developing stronger, more capable teams

  • Building client relationships and contributing to business growth

  • Setting clear expectations and holding others accountable

  • Building trust with senior stakeholders through consistent judgment and follow-through

Confidence grows, and that familiar “am I really ready for this?” fades.

Experience and Credentials

  • ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC), trained through iPEC and the University of Cambridge, specializing in leadership development, strategic communication, and executive presence

  • 1,000 + coaching hours supporting professionals across law, accounting, advisory, and enterprise environments

  • 15+ years working with global law and CPA firms, supporting the professionals and clients they serve

  • Founder of a thriving coaching and leadership development firm, bringing firsthand experience in building, leading, and scaling a practice

  • Trusted by leaders across global law, tax, and advisory firms, as well as organizations such as the World Bank and Netflix

  • Long-term partnerships and repeat engagements supporting multiple promotions, leadership transition, and partner-track development

  • Certified in DiSC®, The Five Behaviors®, EQ-i 2.0, EQ360, and Energy Leadership

A More Personal Note

Hi! I might be the coach for you if you’re stepping into a bigger role and everything suddenly feels more complex: more pressure, more politics, more visibility — and you’re trying to lead in a way that still feels like you.

My work helps leaders quiet imposter-driven, build confidence, and develop the kind of presence that earns trust and influence (without feeling performative). Together, we build practical leadership systems so you can delegate effectively, communicate clearly, and create the expectations and accountability that help teams thrive. This often frees leaders like you to focus on higher-impact work, growing your practice, shaping strategy, and building a practice that feels sustainable.

Over the past decade, I’ve worked with high-performing professionals across law, accounting, and enterprise environments, supporting them through moments of self-doubt, transition, and growth. Clients have included a producer whose project was greenlit by Netflix, and a lawyer who became the youngest — and first Black — partner at his firm, later promoted again just 18 months later.

I also work with leadership teams as a facilitator and retreat leader, helping them strengthen trust, navigate complexity, and design conversations that lead to real progress (and occasionally, meetings people actually want to attend).

Alongside my coaching and consulting work, I’m also a parent of three little humans. Building a business while raising a family has meant navigating competing priorities, imperfect balance, and constant recalibration. That lived experience shapes how I coach — grounded, practical, and focused on helping leaders lead well in the midst of real life.

- Stephanie Chen Banjo