About

I am a verb, not a noun. I am…changing, evolving, learning – every moment. I am becoming; never arrived. Being in process – is the human experience.

I am a conscious leader.

Why Conscious Leadership?

A sustainable future requires us to prioritize inner development first. Our external world is a manifestation of our internal worlds and our children, humanity and this planet are counting on us. Conscious leadership is about developing and accessing a system of (inner) wisdom where we can create new ways of being; of loving, of seeing, of thinking, of working, of communicating, of doing. It is operating in alignment with nature and in cooperation with one another and by starting with our individual Selves, we will be able to generate transformation within our homes, communities, organizations and planet.

About My Work

My work aims to operationalize the ethos of conscious leadership, by creating content, training and spaces that incubate ideas and allow for practice in community, leading to a collective shift in how existing and future leaders nurture momentum in our respective environments for sustainable systematic change.

Now more than ever, we need to go inward; to inform how we show up, respond and rise up in our lives and with our people. Our children learn from our own ways of being, and I am here to carve a path to make inner skills the skills we prioritize first.

Stefanie Tocco

About Stefanie

I am an educator, facilitator, creator, mother, changemaker and am committed to making inner skills our most important skills.

With 18+ years of cross-sector experience spanning corporate, nonprofit and education organizations, my work focuses on the development and facilitation of awareness-based and human-centric models of leadership. I am committed to creating opportunities and spaces for leaders to attune to their inner dimensions, and engage in a new collective consciousness in order to scale up transformational literacy and actualize the potential for positive change within the education and business sectors.

I am a part of MIT’s Presencing Institute, U-School for Transformation, an awareness-based systems change action lab, lead mindfulness programming at Bank of America and am a member of the Consortium for Change (C4C), a cooperative network for transformational change.

In 2017, I founded a Community of Practice for mothers to tune into their inner wisdom, and create circles of support to step into their role as leaders at home and in their communities, and published the Ways of Being Activity Cards, a tool for kids and families to practice inner skills together. I am co-creating a global workshop for educators to explore consciousness and tune into their heart intelligence and am co-authoring an activity book for kids and families to make inner skills our strongest skills.

I hold an MA in International Relations from The George Washington University and has been certified in multiple conscious leadership and human development modalities including the Presencing Institute Leading From the Emerging Future, Behavior Science Design, Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR), the Trauma Resource Institute’s Community Resilience Model, and the Silva Intuition System, among others.

I believe, harmony lies in the balance. I lean into the energy of my city and love to be in nature. I find rhythm and flow through running and yoga, and seek stillness through meditation, the ocean, and reflection. My kids are my best teachers and are a source of grounding and light.

The future of this planet and our humanity depends on our ability to shift human consciousness, which starts from building strong inner systems. I do this work from the wisdom and experiences I have learned in my own journey. Join me in yours…..

Stefanie