Stephen Gianotti

Stephen Gianotti, TEDx speaker, author and entrepreneur, has been a practitioner of individual, group, and organizational effectiveness for over 30 years with a specific focus on thinking and acting from a “whole system” perspective. After taking early retirement from the corporate world, he founded The Woodland Group and became Chairperson of the Global Association for the Society of Organizational Learning. Stephen brings a comprehensive understanding of systems thinking, organizational learning, diagnostics, learning/training needs analysis and personality & emotional intelligence assessments and an in-depth knowledge of organizational development and the coaching process. Stephen has worked with over 500 companies around the world and coached over 2,000 professionals in the US and abroad at the emerging, middle, upper middle and Executive levels of profit and not-for-profit organizations. For the last three years he has facilitated monthly Global Virtual Learning Sessions featuring well known organizational development thinkers such as Margaret Wheatley, Dr. Daniel H. Kim, Peter Senge, Robert Fritz, Adam Kahane, and Conductor Benjamin Zander who share their expertise with a world-wide audience of global practitioners. Stephen is currently a facilitator for the UNH Family Business Center where he facilitates monthly forums with 10 of NH’s CEO’s. This month he signed his third book contract with his two co-authors on the topic of “Becoming a Self-Differentiated Leader” with a publishing date of January 2026. For three years, Stephen was the official Zoom Safari Guide for Elephant Havens Wildlife Foundation, the first and only Elephant Sanctuary (www.elephanthavens.com) located in Botswana, home to the world’s largest African Elephant population, whose mission is to “Protect & Preserve the African Elephant”. In May of 2023, Stephen was a TEDx speaker, at one of the largest TEDx venues in the world, on the topic of “What We Can Learn From The African Elephant” and was one of a few TEDx Talks selected for the International TEDx YouTube Channel. https://www.ted.com/talks/stephen_gianotti_lessons_from_the_african_ele…