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Stephanie Chung
Stephanie Chung helps leaders and sales teams master the future of selling through neuroscience and Conversational Intelligence. A leadership and sales speaker, she is the former Chief Growth Officer of Wheels Up and a bestselling author.
Stephanie Chung is a business growth, leadership, and sales executive who helps organizations improve performance by understanding how people think, communicate, build trust, and make decisions.
Stephanie served as the founding Chief Growth Officer of Wheels Up, President of JetSuite, and Vice President of Sales for Flexjet. She became the first African American to lead a private aviation company and is the number one international bestselling author of Ally Leadership. She also serves on the advisory board of XTI Aerospace.
Across more than 30 years in aviation and business growth, Stephanie has led sales organizations responsible for nearly $1 billion in annual revenue. Her teams consistently exceeded ambitious revenue targets, giving her direct experience of the decisions, relationships, and communication skills required to lead high-performing teams. She combines this executive background with neuroscience and Conversational Intelligence® to examine how trust, communication, and human behavior shape leadership and sales results.
Audiences leave with practical tools for building trust quickly, asking better questions, and using brain science to sell and lead more effectively. Stephanie's frameworks apply equally to sales kickoffs and leadership offsites, giving teams language and structure they can use immediately. Stephanie also helps leaders understand how people respond differently to communication, change, and decision-making, providing a grounded perspective for increasingly diverse workplaces and sales environments.
Book Stephanie Chung for proven executive experience connecting people, performance, communication, and revenue growth.
Topics, sessions and talks
Great leadership rarely comes from surrounding yourself with people who think the same way. Stephanie Chung explores how to lead and inspire team members who approach work, communication, and decisions differently than you do. Drawing on her book How to Lead People Who Are Not Like You, she shares practical strategies for building trust across different perspectives, creating environments where every voice is heard, and turning differences into a genuine source of innovation and stronger results.
The post-pandemic workplace is more complex than ever, with multiple generations, competing priorities, and mounting pressure to perform. Stephanie Chung challenges leaders to rethink their approach through the lens of brain science. Using personal stories and actionable takeaways, she shows how small shifts in communication and mindset build trust, strengthen culture, and help leaders use their voice more deliberately to guide teams through constant change, without losing sight of results.
Closing the deal starts with trust, and trust starts with understanding how it actually works. Drawing on her career as a high-ticket sales closer, Stephanie Chung breaks down the science behind building rapport, pairing tried-and-tested sales tactics with insights from brain science. Sales professionals leave equipped to ask clearer questions, sell through storytelling, and close more consistently by understanding what is really happening in a buyer's mind and how to act on it.
As a woman of color and a professional in a male-dominated industry, Stephanie Chung has navigated a uniquely challenging climb. She shares the highs and lows of her own career, from breaking barriers in private aviation to building a high-performing sales organization. Women from every background and career stage leave this session with encouragement to pursue what they have been told they cannot achieve, and the confidence to go after it.
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Stephanie Chung draws on neuroscience — specifically Conversational Intelligence® — alongside her career as a high-ticket sales closer to frame practical sessions on leadership and sales. Her talks pair brain science with personal stories and structured frameworks, giving audiences transferable language and tools they can apply immediately.
Stephanie Chung's sessions cover leading across difference, applying brain science to workplace leadership, and building trust and rapport in high-ticket sales. She is the number one international bestselling author of Ally Leadership and became the first African American to lead a major private aviation company, having served as founding Chief Growth Officer of Wheels Up and President of JetSuite.
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