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Stefanie Faye

About Me

NEUROSCIENCE FOR COACHES, EDUCATORS, PROFESSIONALS

Elevate your coaching, teaching and leadership with neuroscience that re-wires the brain and nervous system for improved focus, emotional wellbeing and performance.

If you're someone who strives for the deepest understanding of themselves and others' behaviors, and you're passionate about building resilience, growth mindset, emotion regulation and psychological safety, my content is for you.   

 

I am here to help you bridge the gap between scientific research and how we directly apply it to help people find new ways of using their talents, discomforts, failures, and challenges as pathways to growth and evolution.

 

 

 

My Mission: To bring attachment-based, trauma-informed neuroscience and systems thinking research to therapists, coaches, teachers and leaders so they can confidently teach their clients and audiences how to build new mindsets and approaches to wellbeing, performance and innovation. 

My experience has shown me that once people truly understand the power of their mind and the systems that influence their behavior, they access new forms of energy, motivation and a belief in their ability to learn and grow. Neuroscience is a language to help them see this truth.

 

"Thank you Stefanie. I run a charitable Trust that has a focus on assisting people with Depression and Anxiety. I follow your podcasts and have got my partner onto them as well. We both find these so helpful in our line of work (She is a clinical psychologist) and find your content very informative and very digestible to pass onto others in our work. Thank you for what you do."

 

dconfestival berlin neurobiology of innovation

My talk on the Neurobiology of Innovation with social neuroscientist Caroline Szymanski, creativity researcher Sergio Agnoli and Stanford computational neuroscientist Manish Saggar at the dconfestival berlin

About me...

I'm a neuroscience specialist and educator focused on improving life outcomes for diverse populations by giving actionable and engaging neuroscience education that transforms mindsets and behaviors.

I'm a former researcher and have spent parts of my career measuring electric conductance of the skin (GSR), facial electromyography (EMG), and heart rate.  My most current work has been with assessing and analyzing quantitative electroencephalography (QEEG), rhythmic sinus arrhythmia (heart rate variability), and administering neurofeedback, and transcranial magnetic stimulation for clinical treatment at an intensive outpatient mental health clinic. 

 

 

My graduate research at New York University and fieldwork at the NYU Phelps lab for neuroscience research, the NYU Institute for Prevention Science and Yeshiva University's Albert Einstein College of Medicine focused on the cross-section of self-directed neuroplasticity, family emotional climates, and empathy. 

My clients include MIT, Google, Stanford University, the FBI, Northwestern University, Alberta Children’s Hospital, the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, as well as therapists, coaches, educational consultants, district superintendents, CEOs, yoga instructors, osteopaths, and many more.

I also currently work at a neuropsychology clinic, where I focus on brainwave training (neurofeedback), biofeedback, eye movement for attention/focus, cognitive training and brain maps (qEEG) for clients ranging from small children to older adults, with a variety of challenges including ADHD, anxiety, sleep issues, traumatic brain injury and social-emotional-communication challenges.

 

For the past decade, I've been teaching and consulting in countries all over the world by combining scientific insights and my training in monasteries with meditation masters from India, Africa and Vietnam. 

I am also a former intelligence analyst, and a Master Faculty instructor and researcher at Google, where I have consulted on and facilitated global workshops on the Science of Learning and Mindset in London, Chicago, Tel Aviv, Munich and Singapore. 

"I teach high school history and I have a 20 year old son with generalized anxiety disorder. I find your work extremely clarifying for both teaching and guiding my son through his disorder. I plan on using this to help me get ready for next school year, as it may look very different from my last 28 years."

PAST CLIENTS INCLUDE:

Northwestern University, School of Education and Social Policy
Google
Northeastern University, Chicago
Hasso Plattner School of Design Thinking, Berlin
City Colleges of Chicago
Illinois State University, Department of Education
University of California San Diego, School of Medicine
Tutoring Chicago (formerly Cabrini Green Tutoring)
EHOVE Career Training, Ohio
Blue Valley School District, Missouri
Horizon Science Academy, Chicago
Christopher House Chicago
Oak Park String Academy
Suzuki Music Association
Empowerment through Education and Exposure, Chicago
Calgary Bridge Foundation for Youth, Canada
Alberta Children's Hospital, Canada 
Independence School District, Missouri

"Your comments about perseverance gained by applying our strengths to a self-transcendent purpose have informed our practices around how we at Harrigan Solutions develop our employees. Thanks for this life changing insight."

Featured Talks

TEDx: The Experience-Dependent Human Brain

Talks at Google: The Neuro-Mechanics of Mindset

“I love that you use biological/ scientific facts of how our brains and bodies are historically designed, as well as how experiences and environments shape our behavior. It’s been more helpful than any doctors, therapists, yoga gurus, etc. Thank you for giving us the hope and the inspiration to learn more."

NEUROSCIENCE TO ELEVATE YOUR COACHING, TEACHING & LEADERSHIP

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The Science of Finding Your Life Purpose

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Purpose isn’t just some grandiose, once-in-a-lifetime discovery. It’s not a single “aha” moment where suddenly everything clicks.   Instead, we can view a sense of purpose as an ongoing narrative that evolves with our unique sensitivities* and experiences – and…

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growth mindset is not an either/or category

  Growth mindset is not an either/or concept. It’s context-dependent and it’s complex. Many people believe in their ability to change and grow when it comes to their career, or specific skills, or intellect. But… they may not see their…

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How to inspire growth mindset using neuroscience (5 steps)

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“One thing about human intelligence is absolutely certain: it is malleable, meaning it can be changed through exposure to new information or even by looking at what you already know in a new way.  There is no limit to what…

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