Book Stephanie Mikulasek
Keynote speaker · Facilitator · Former U.S. Diplomat · Award-Winning Author
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Stephanie engages, entertains, and educates audiences on how to work across generations, navigate different cultures, manage effectively, and build high performance teams. She specializes in emboldening and inspiring women to claim what’s next – and giving them the tools to take action.
“She was AMAZING – and I will never forget the lion story!”
U.S. Government Foreign Service Officer
Drawing on 20+ years as a U.S. Diplomat, USAID senior executive, executive coach, and PhD researcher — across 60+ countries and some of the most complex leadership environments in the world — Stephanie brings a rare combination of global credibility and deep personal understanding of what it actually takes to stop waiting and start.
Signature Speaking Topics
Each topic can be delivered as a keynote (45–60 min), half-day workshop, or full-day intensive. All topics are available virtually or in-person and can be customized for your audience and context.
The Generational Code
Generational friction isn’t about attitude – your people are running different communication operating systems. Learn how to decode four generations at work, giving mixed-age teams and leaders a shared language and actionable tools.
When Women Stop Editing
Too often women are trained to edit themselves into silence, to hold back, to be small – with significant cost to our organizations and communities. Unlock the mindset you need to move forward with humor, grace, and confidence. Equal parts research, story, and practical framework.
On the Road: From Misunderstood to Understood
When nothing is the same, then what? A story-rich talk on what we learn from traveling: how we show up to ourselves for the first time, what questions shift, and why the same is never the same again. Highly entertaining, inspiring, and human.
Dissonance is the Point
Our greatest pain points can give us our greatest purpose. Humorously explore how friction, difference, and crossing into the unfamiliar are exactly how growth happens and leaders are made. Draws on immersion leadership research and field experience across 60+ countries.
The Manager's Survival Guide
Most new managers were promoted for being great as an individual contributor – then handed a team (with humans and AI agents) without a map. First time and seasoned managers will gain practical tools on building trust, having hard conversations, and leading people who were peers last week.
Making a Difference Anywhere
What is servant leadership and a life of service? This talk features dream makers, innovators, and change makers who are making a difference with few resources or titles. Excellent for mission-driven organizations seeking to inspire their teams to think out of the box and imagine what is possible.
“Stephanie has a rare gift: she names the thing you’ve been feeling for years but couldn’t say out loud. Our members left that session with something I’ve never seen before — not just inspiration, but an actual plan for what’s next. She is extraordinary on stage.”
Outcomes + Formats
What audiences walk away with
- A name for the thing that’s been holding them back
- Permission — and a plan — to claim their creative identity
- Practical leadership and visibility frameworks, immediately usable
- The language to talk about their work without shrinking
- Clarity on next steps: marketing, positioning, showing up publicly
- The conviction that what they have to say matters and people are waiting for it
Format and availability
- Keynote — 45 to 60 minutes
- Half-day workshop
- Full-day intensive
- Panel moderator
- Fireside conversation
- Virtual and in-person
- Retreat facilitation
Custom programming available for conferences, retreats, and organizational events.
About Stephanie
Stephanie Mikulasek is the founder and CEO of The ServantEDGE, a leadership development company dedicated to emboldening women to claim what’s next. A former U.S. Diplomat at the Department of State and USAID with experience across 60+ countries, Georgetown-certified PCC Executive Coach, ICF member, certified mindfulness teacher, and PhD candidate at George Mason University researching how immersive experiences develop transformational leaders, Stephanie brings an uncommon combination of global leadership credibility and deep personal understanding of what it takes to finally claim your voice.
She is a contributing author to Femme Led, an award-winning, international bestselling anthology on women in leadership, and is at work on her forthcoming book on multigenerational leadership.
Former U.S. Diplomat · Georgetown-Certified PCC Executive Coach · ICF Member · PhD Candidate, George Mason University · Contributing Author, Femme Led (International Bestseller) · 60+ Countries · Certified Mindfulness Teacher
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