Stephen Pile

Stephen has coached hundreds of executives and consulted to over fifty companies around the world on leader development, strategic planning, workflow redesign, and strategic alignment of teams and culture. He brings uniqueness to the field with his depth in integrating the behavioral and technical sides of organizations. His early work began in Texas Instruments as a lead design engineer doing groundbreaking work in design for manufacturability with multifunctional teams. He later joined Exxon Chemical, rising to the worldwide organization development leadership after several years in management leading world-scale cross-functional start-up teams. Stephen led senior management workshops at Caltech and The Institute for Management Studies on structuring team-based organizations and consults widely in that arena.

Stephen holds an advanced degree in engineering and is a graduate with honors from Pepperdine University’s widely acclaimed MSOD program where he has served as supporting faculty for fourteen years.

His diverse interests have included developing and managing a quarter horse breeding business, three consultancies, a music production company, and professional photography, along with serving on multiple non-profit boards.