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Stephanie Lemek, SPHR, MBA, CTSS

Founder & CEO, The Wounded Workforce

Stephanie Lemek is the Founder and CEO of The Wounded Workforce®. With nearly two decades of HR experience spanning Fortune 500 companies and startups, she helps executives understand a simple but overlooked truth: resilience is a systems outcome, not an individual trait. As a consultant, speaker, educator, and executive coach, Stephanie partners with senior leaders to build trauma-informed organizations where wellbeing is designed into the conditions of work rather than delegated to individual coping skills. Her framework gives executives a practical path to stronger retention, engagement, and performance, treating workforce mental health as a leadership and business strategy rather than a benefits line item. She also coaches leaders directly, because the conditions of work start with how leadership itself operates. Stephanie holds an MBA and SPHR, along with certifications in trauma support and trauma-informed workplace practice, and is a certified CliftonStrengths coach. Her message to leaders everywhere: change the conditions, not the coping.