Stephanie Machiels is the strategist and coach high-performing founders and executives call when they need clean decisions, sharp execution, and structural integrity across their business and leadership. No fluff, no noise—just precise thinking, direct challenge, and frameworks that hold under pressure.

Whether you are scaling a company, restructuring a team, or navigating high-stakes change, Stephanie helps you cut through complexity, name what others won’t, and move with conviction. If you are done diluting your standards, your strategy, or yourself, this is where the real conversation starts.

Let’s talk about what you’re really building.

My stance (non-negotiable)

I no longer have any affinity with:

• Avoidance disguised as "strategy"

• Structural chaos disguised as "creativity"

• Business behaviors that dilute authority, margins, and momentum

We work with truth, sequence, and consequence.

What I do

I help you:

• Identify the real constraint (not the loud one).

• Eliminate dilution: scattered priorities, performative strategy, pseudo-urgency.

• Build a structure that holds: decisions, boundaries, execution cadence, accountability.

• Translate complexity into action without oversimplifying what's actually happening.

My background is deeply operational and commercial: 20+ years across luxury retail, B2B/B2C sales leadership, and entrepreneurial execution — with additional training in orthomolecular / functional approaches that sharpen how I read stress patterns, capacity, and sustainability.

How we work

1) Diagnose — mapping patterns in your decisions, team dynamics, offer design, and execution.
2) Re-architect — simplifying into a structure that can be held under pressure.
3) Implement — clear priorities, weekly cadence, decision rules, and clean boundaries.

You leave with a plan you can actually run, not a document you'll avoid.

Ways to work with me

Private Strategic Session (90 min)
A single, high-precision intervention: problem definition, pattern map, and a concrete execution plan.

Confidential Coaching (1:1)
For leaders in a transition, restructure, or recalibration — where strategy and identity must align.

Strategic Executive Assistance (embedded)
A focused, analytical partnership to reorganize roles, priorities, and systems so the business becomes coherent again.