Stefani Quam
Applied Organizational Psychologist | Transformational Leader
About Stefani
Driven, Passionate, Confident
My Approach
My Process
Unique Framework
What is Transformational Leadership?
Transformational Leadership refers to an individual’s ability to influence, motivate, and enable others to contribute toward organizational success and is demonstrated through behaviors associated with developing psychological safety, knowledge sharing, and empowerment with (and within) their teams.
Stefani’s practice of Transformational Leadership concentrates on driving innovation among strategic, technical, and creative teams. Innovation in this context, refers to the creation of beneficial novelty on behalf of an organization. She uses team exercises and facilitation techniques to stimulate innovative behaviors as identified by Kleysen, R.F. & Street, C.T. (2001).
Opportunity Exploration
Generativity
Generating ideas, solutions, representations, categories, associations and opportunities
Formative Investigation
Formulating, experimenting, evaluating ideas and solutions
Championing
Application
What is Applied Organizational Psychology?
Applied Organizational Psychology is the scientific examination of how human cognition, attitudes, and behaviors are affected by the context of leaders, co-workers, and organizational policies, structure, culture, etc. Core topics include motivation, leadership, group and team performance, job attitudes, organizational climate and culture, and organization development.
Stefani uses her unique skill set to assess organizational and team dynamics through interviews, empirical studies, meeting observations, and strategic alignment activities to identify and address discrepancies between organizational culture and organizational climate. Organizational culture, in this context, is defined as the beliefs and values that govern the organizational entity, while organizational climate refers to the actualization of those beliefs through behaviors and interactions of the organization’s members McLean, L. D. (2005). Stefani focuses on how the organization’s leadership models impact the intrinsic motivation of employees. Leadership ability to harness employees’ intrinsic motivation has been found to be a key characteristic in successful, innovative teams Ostroff, C. (1993). Stefani works with both leaders and managers to help them address the individual needs of their team members as well as their teams as a whole to increase innovation and agility.
Case Studies
Driven, Passionate, Confident
Setting Organizational Vision: Facilitating a Mission Statement Development Workshop
In 2020, I volunteered as a pro-bono consultant for Pivot Consulting on a project for the Junior Economic Club. I designed and facilitated a board member workshop to help (re)establish the mission statement of the organization. The workshop framework leveraged the...
Designing and Implementing an End-to-End Marketing Operations Process
In 2019, I worked with a regional-sized retailer as they were going through an organizational transformation initiative to scale their operational capabilities. Prior to my arrival, the company had implemented a process called “Fully Integrated Planning” (FIP), which...
Piloting an End-to-End Marketing Operations Channel Spend Optimization Process
In 2016, I led a cross-departmental initiative to become a more data-driven organization by reallocating Marketing budgets across channels to optimize MROI. My role represented the interests of the Marketing Analytics department, while acting as partner and liaison to...
From Analog to Digital: Migrating to Salesforce
In 2014, I worked with a sales team for a B2B manufacturer to expand, track, and retain the organization’s customer base. In an effort to improve operational efficiency, I was in charge of implementing the company’s Salesforce (SaaS) platform.The Business Challenge...
Training Project Management Practices: Kanban Methodology
In 2015, I was asked to implement a digital Kanban platform for project oversight and performance management of a Marketing Analytics Department of a national retailer. Prior to my onboarding, this department did not have a project management practice in place....
Strategy Implementation: Building an eCommerce Platform
In 2014, I led the concept, development, and implementation of a company’s first eCommerce site as part of a new go-to-market strategy. The platform was intended to capture a new demographic for the organization: aftermarket customers.The Business Challenge The...
From Analog to Digital: Migrating to Salesforce
In 2014, I worked with a sales team for a B2B manufacturer to expand, track, and retain the organization’s customer base. In an effort to improve operational efficiency, I was in charge of implementing the company’s Salesforce (SaaS) platform.The Business Challenge...
Training Project Management Practices: Kanban Methodology
In 2015, I was asked to implement a digital Kanban platform for project oversight and performance management of a Marketing Analytics Department of a national retailer. Prior to my onboarding, this department did not have a project management practice in place....
Strategy Implementation: Building an eCommerce Platform
In 2014, I led the concept, development, and implementation of a company’s first eCommerce site as part of a new go-to-market strategy. The platform was intended to capture a new demographic for the organization: aftermarket customers.The Business Challenge The...
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