Full Bio

Dr. Jeanine Stewart, PhD is a neuroscientist, executive coach, and prior C-level executive whose clients have included leaders of major global organizations, government agencies in the US and abroad, educational and non-profit institutions.

A strategic thinker with an entrepreneurial nature, Jeanine has created distinctive leadership development programs based on scientific evidence about what works to help leaders and organizations quickly align and engage the people who matter most in realizing an organization’s full potential.

Dr. Stewart’s evidence-based approach to executive advisory, team coaching, and culture change builds on expertise that spans applied neuroscience, adaptive leadership, and positive psychology to build individual and group capacity for peak performance. In her academic career she taught neuroscience, psychology and applied professional ethics at the university level. Her natural inclination toward leadership and an innate desire to build healthy and functional workplaces led her to move into the leadership tier, serving as Chief Academic Officer (CAO) for a decade before shifting her professional focus to mentoring and developing other leaders.

Dr. Stewart earned her PhD in neuroscience at the University of Virginia (UVA) and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in neural plasticity at the University of Virginia Medical Center. She holds an International Coach Federation (ICF) PCC certification, and has completed additional training to earn additional coaching certifications through Advancing Coach Excellence (ACE), and the National Board of Health and Wellness Coaching (NBC-HWC). She also holds the SHRM-SCP certification, reflecting her commitment to excellence in strategic, enterprise human capital. She is a member of the Institute of Coaching (IOC) at Harvard University.

Dr. Stewart’s keynotes and specialized, interactive programs build on her core areas of scholarly expertise which span professional ethics, positive psychology and neuroscience applied to leadership development.

Jeanine resides in central Virginia where she enjoys cooking, hiking and dining with her two adult daughters. She also shares her home office with two naughty cats and cheers the Detroit Lions during football season.