Meet
Stephanie Johns Brewer

Her Story

Stephanie Johns Brewer is a leadership strategist, author, mentor, and speaker who has spent her career helping people navigate complex environments with greater clarity, confidence, and care. Known for her blend of practical wisdom, research-informed insight, and human-centered leadership, Stephanie brings a voice of calm, direction, and hope into environments that are often anything but.

For more than two decades, she has worked inside large, dynamic organizations where competing priorities, intense personalities, and constant change create both challenge and opportunity. This firsthand experience fuels her passion for equipping leaders with tools that are not only intelligent and strategic but compassionate and deeply human.

A Leadership Approach Rooted in Insight and Heart

Stephanie’s work centers on a foundational conviction: leadership is about influence, not authority — about the way we shape the people, teams, and cultures around us.

Her approach integrates several key elements:

• Practical organizational strategy

• Research-informed leadership science

• Storytelling and archetypal insight

• A deep understanding of human behavior

• Grace-filled realism about the challenges leaders face

She understands the kinds of pressures leaders carry, the types of personalities they must navigate, and the quiet self-doubt even strong, capable people experience behind the scenes.

Her writing and coaching speak to leaders who want to grow — not just in skill, but in wholeness.

Make it Stand Out.

Stephanie is the author and architect of the Fairytale Leaders™ framework a story-driven leadership approach that uses archetypes to illuminate the patterns of power, dysfunction, and transformation in today’s workplaces.

Her forthcoming book, Villains in the Corner Office, offers a fresh, insightful approach to navigating difficult leaders — blending fairytale metaphor with organizational psychology and practical wisdom.

Additional books and tools are planned to further develop this body of work.

Speaker and Leadership Partner

Stephanie speaks and teaches on topics including:

• Navigating difficult personalities

• Building healthy leadership habits

• Influence-based leadership (leading without authority)

• Organizational resilience

• Mentorship-infused management

Her sessions are known for being warm, clear, insightful, and immediately applicable.

A Human Story Behind the Leadership Story

Beyond her professional experience, Stephanie’s life has been shaped by deep faith, real-world challenges, and a long commitment to helping others grow. Her perspective is grounded in compassion, strengthened by perseverance, and animated by hope — qualities that resonate with leaders seeking depth, authenticity, and guidance.