Stephanie Clergé is the Vice President of People and Product Development at Kolbe Corp, a certified leadership coach, and a premier speaker on cultural transformation, workforce alignment, and human-centric AI adoption. Leveraging an operational background in industrial engineering, she designs systemic corporate frameworks that optimize employee performance.
Stephanie Clergé bridges the gap between high-tech operational systems and human behavior. As the Vice President of People and Product Development at Kolbe Corp, Stephanie serves as the core internal steward of the Kolbe Concept®, ensuring that company-wide talent management, training architecture, and product roadmaps align with data-driven conative principles. Her unique operational perspective helps global enterprises scale culture, optimize change management, and manage the human element of technology integration.
Stephanie began her professional career as an engineer at Intel Corporation, where she held dual roles as a Manufacturing Systems Group Leader and Human Resources Cultural Transformation Program Manager. During her tenure, she managed large-scale workforce planning and manufacturing readiness, including leading the rapid scaling, onboarding, and training of over 700 technical employees within a single year. This early immersion in high-stakes corporate scaling taught her that workforce optimization requires aligning natural human instincts with operational roles. Prior to joining Kolbe Corp, she refined her leadership coaching credentials as a Director at the purpose-based executive search firm Y Scouts and as a facilitator for executive growth organizations.
Stephanie holds a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management from Stanford University and earned her Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Corporate Entrepreneurship from the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College. She is a certified coach through the Hudson Institute of Coaching and holds a Kolbe Youth Specialist™ Accreditation. A dynamic industry voice, Stephanie recently headlined DisruptHR Tucson, presenting on how HR leaders can navigate the artificial intelligence revolution by matching human conative strengths with machine automation. She is also a recurring technical co-host and expert voice on the Powered by Instinct podcast.
Watch Stephanie’s latest DisruptHR talk on scaling organizational culture through technology shifts and instinctual team alignment.
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