Coaching · Training · Facilitation
Start with the one thing you control: yourself.
I'm an organizational psychologist and a professor, thirteen years into supporting executive leadership at a major research university.
- —I coach leaders one-on-one.
- —I build training people actually use.
- —I facilitate the conversations teams keep postponing.
You can't change your budget, your board, or the person across the table. You can change how you show up — and that changes what becomes possible around you.
Real-world
Thirteen years supporting executive leadership at UC Irvine: running complex projects, providing decision-support to senior leaders, and implementing strategic visions
Evidence-based
PhD in Organizational Psychology from Claremont Graduate University, plus graduate training in public administration. I research leadership, fairness, motivation, and engagement
Certified coach
LeAD Certified Leader Development Coach, Co-Active trained. Individual and group coaching, 360-degree assessments and debriefs, and team training
University professor
I've taught group dynamics, research methods, leadership ethics, and training and development to graduate and undergraduate students
Research helps me ask better questions.
Teaching forces me to make complex ideas usable.
Working inside a large institution keeps me honest — the theoretically perfect answer is rarely the one that survives contact with a real organization.
01 / COACHING
Get clear. Get unstuck. Move forward.
For the moments when thinking harder about it hasn't gotten you anywhere. I work one-on-one with leaders, professionals, and graduate students to turn complicated problems into clearer decisions and consistent action.
Executive & Leadership Coaching
For leaders who want to be more intentional about how they lead.
For executives, new managers, emerging leaders, higher-education leaders, and professionals taking on more responsibility.
Career & Life Coaching
For people asking some version of: What am I doing next?
Career decisions never stay contained at work. Transitions, competing priorities, professional identity, purpose, boundaries, and the relationship between work and the rest of life.
The goal isn't for me to tell you what to do. It's to help you decide something you can stand behind, and then move.
Graduate & Doctoral Coaching
Graduate school asks you to manage enormous, ambiguous projects with surprisingly little structure.
I work privately with graduate students on turning the big thing into the next thing: milestones, workable timelines, making sense of advisor feedback, and finishing.
Want community and daily accountability instead? Meet the Dailey Dawn Squad →02 / TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT
Training people can actually use on Monday.
Not a presentation. People bring a real situation, practice the skill in the room, and get feedback while it still matters.
Built around your team and the thing that has to change — never off a shelf.
Training & workshops →03 / RETREATS & FACILITATION
Your retreat should do more than fill a day.
The best retreats create enough distance from daily work for a team to finally have the conversation it keeps postponing.
I don't start with activities. I start with the problem the retreat needs to solve — what's changed, where the team is stuck, what people aren't saying, and what has to be different when everyone walks out.
Retreats & facilitation →What I believe
Stephanie R. Dailey, PhD
Organizational psychologist
We're made of two things: what happens to us, and how we choose to respond.
Environment matters enormously, and leaders build it. But that's only half the story. The other half is character: whether your actions line up with the person you want to be, particularly when things are hard.
Difficult seasons reveal character — and if you let them, they build it.
Most of my work sits on that second half, because it's the half you control. What do you actually value? How are you showing up? And who are you on the days when you're tired, overlooked, and out of patience?
Which leads to the philosophy I run on: if I'm not getting the outcomes I want, I need to try something different. Not because everything is my fault — because I'm the only one in the room I can actually change.
And nothing is fixed. Tomorrow I can be different than I am today — sometimes that's a new perspective, sometimes just breaking a response I've been giving on autopilot for years.
Enrolling now · Launching this fall
The Dailey Dawn Squad
A 5 AM co-working and group coaching community for graduate students building momentum on dissertations, theses, capstones, and other long, lonely projects.
Grad school is a team sport.
Nobody finishes a dissertation on willpower alone. Come see how the mornings work, and stop doing this by yourself.
Also available
Faith-based coaching and team development.
I'm a Christian, and for clients who want it I offer coaching and team work that draws on that directly. It's entirely opt-in — most of my engagements are secular and stay that way. If it's what you're looking for, say so when we talk.
Let's talk.
You don't need to know which service you need before we talk. Book a free call — I'd love to chat.
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