EEC 427: How Using Your Whole Brain Drives Organizational Performance, with Stephanie Bacon

Stephanie Bacon, PhD, is an organizational consultant, speaker, and researcher specializing in adult social and emotional competence, nervous system regulation, and human-centered leadership. She works with leaders who care deeply about performance, culture, and impact—and who recognize that strategy alone does not create alignment. You talk about "human capacity" as the missing piece in organizational performance. What do you mean by that? You describe your work as "Embodied SEL." How is that different from traditional emotional intelligence or leadership training? What are the hidden costs organizations pay when adult social and emotional competence is low? What is the difference between having a motivation problem and a capacity problem? Stephanie Bacon Stephanie Bacon, PhD, is an organizational consultant, speaker, and researcher specializing in adult social and emotional competence, nervous system regulation, and human-centered leadership. She works with leaders who care deeply about performance, culture, and impact—and who recognize that strategy alone does not create alignment. Execution depends on the emotional, relational, and physiological capacity of the people carrying out the work. Stephanie's expertise sits at the intersection of research, applied nervous system science, group dynamics, and lived leadership experience. Stephanie understands what happens to decision-making, collaboration, and innovation when people are overwhelmed, fragmented, or operating in chronic stress. And she understands how to help teams rebuild the internal conditions required for clarity, coherence, and sustainable performance. Excellent Executive Coaching Podcast If you have enjoyed this episode,

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EEC 427: How Using Your Whole Brain Drives Organizational Performance, with Stephanie Bacon is an episode from Excellent Executive Coaching: Bringing Your Coaching One Step Closer to Excelling by Katrina Burrus, PhD, MCC.

This episode is 20:25 long.

This episode was published on Apr 7, 2026.

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