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 Meet

Stephanie Laplante

Executive Coach | High-Performance Team Coach | Change Catalyst | Leadership Strategist

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A Leader Who Builds Leaders

Helping executives and teams unlock potential, elevate performance, and create lasting change.

Stephanie Laplante is the visionary and founder of The Leadership Space. Stephanie is a transformational leadership coach with over three decades of experience helping executives, teams, and organizations achieve extraordinary results. Known by her clients as a Leader Maker she blends practical business experience with a deep understanding of human behavior to unlock potential, elevate performance, and create lasting change.

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Before founding The Leadership Space, Stephanie spent a long and successful career at a global healthcare company, rising from first-line sales leader to the Head of Talent Management and Leadership Development, and eventually to Executive Coach.

Along the way, she shaped GSK’s coaching strategy, winning the 2016 Global ICF PRISM Award. ICF recognized how GSK created a coaching culture that impacted performance and created a high performance culture.

Our Clients

We guide ambitious executives and high-performing teams across industries such as healthcare, technology, and finance. Our coaching focuses on courageous conversations, strategic alignment, and actionable transformation, so clients not only envision change but thrive in it.

Work with The Leadership Space

Your Partner in Leadership Transformation

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Transforms executives
into confident, influential leaders

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Empowers teams
to collaborate
& drive change

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Trusted and respected
for guiding executives to lead with clarity

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How will you unlock your unique strengths to realize your leadership potential?

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Let The Leadership Space
team coach you
to discover your gifts,
amplify your impact,
and guide you to
EXCEL 
in your field.

Stephanie gets leadership — the pressure, the purpose, and the people. With sharp business insight and a grounded, collaborative style, she helps leaders create clarity in chaos to focus on what truly matters. She challenges, inspires, and partners with you to make the impossible possible.

TESTIMONIALS

"Over the last 4 years, I have worked with Stephanie as both a professional coach and as a high performance leadership team development partner. Stephanie is a fantastic partner. She is pragmatic and flexible in her approaches so the team achieved the desired outcomes. Stephanie has really helped me see my strengths and blind spots so I can be a better leader. I've seen her have a big positive impact on larger cross functional teams in both Latin America and in the United States. She is one of my go-to partners for organizational and personal development."

Rick Sheppard

Head of Global Wellness Category

"Stephanie has the ability to know what you and your team need before you do. Her ability to listen, plan and develop a program that elevates performance, builds a unique culture and fosters connectivity is beyond anything I have seen. She adapted our meeting organically to make sure we maximized our time together and our team potential. We left more connected and aligned on our collective path forward...it truly was a game changer."

Vice President

Oncology Sales

"Stephanie Laplante is a coach and leadership development consultant who stands out from others because she gets results."

General Manager LATAM

Global Healthcare Company

"I have really valued Stephanie's practical business approach and solutions/action oriented mindset, as well as her willingness to challenge. She is highly collaborative and a strong strategic thinker."

VP HR

Global Pharma Company

"I appreciate that Stephanie did a lot of pre-work to learn about our company and our team."

Leadership Team Member

Global Healthcare Organization

Let's see if we are a good fit

Let's see if we are a good fit

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