Viri

[Finnish] ripples:

1. Infinite, undulating waves resulting from that simple, yet intentional action of a pebble dropped in a pond.

2. Butterfly-effect.

Viri Group

We are a network and collaborative of senior consultants with broad and deep for-profit and nonprofit organization experiences, providing comprehensive expertise in leadership development, team dynamics, change management, strategic planning, facilitation, and coaching to drive and sustain organizational transformation.

Our Philosophy

What percentage of your strategy success is dependent on how well teams are working together?

Teams are how things get done in organizations. We strive and succeed in building leadership capacity by introducing modern skills for leading teams during VUCA times integrated into the daily workflow (VUCA: volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous). We have all led and worked inside organizations and on the frontline. So, we get it! As educators, facilitators, strategic planners, coaches, and change practitioners, we partner, collaborate and co- create with you, our clients. Our holistic solutions identify and address deep barriers to successful strategy execution while developing team and leadership skills.

About Us

STEPHANIE
FLEMING

President, Lead Strategist + Team Facilitator

Stephanie’s passion is guiding organizations and teams through challenging situations and change.

She brings a combination of marketing, change management, and human-centered design to her approach, leveraging team dynamics to create the most impactful and sustainable results.

Stephanie’s industry experience includes executive and P&L positions with start-ups, nonprofits, and Fortune 500 companies such as: Time Warner, National Geographic Channel, Verizon, and Black & Decker where she built a track record of creating high-performing teams in VUCA environments.

Her quest to unearth barriers to strategy success and peak performance led her to psychological safety in 2016. She is part of the invitation-only first cohort in North America to complete training and become certified from The Fearless Organization in psychological safety team development.

Stephanie stands firmly behind the power of psychological safety, as it improves team effectiveness by 43% and is foundational to strategy success, including change and diversity initiatives.

With her blend of business acumen and people-focused approach, she embeds change leadership, teaming, and strategic thinking into engagements, empowering teams to develop and execute adaptive strategies that are responsive to changing conditions..

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Testimonials

Nice Words

Meet Stephanie

“Stephanie is a strategic thinker who can bring people together across organizations to collaborate towards a longer range goal. She is inclusive in her relationship building and creative in bringing new thinking to our business. I would recommend Stephanie for organizations that are seeking to solve large strategic issues.”

John W.

Senior Manager, Strategy

“Viri provided a positioning and messaging strategy that unified how we talk to our different types of members and prospects. What we got was more systematic, deeper, and far-reaching than I expected. The structure worked, and the result was easily digestible. Even the board was able to better understand our organization and what we do!”

Wendy Siporen

Executive Director, THRIVE

“We are often tempted to say “things are good enough” or “there isn’t a problem”. Group think and complacency are the greatest threats to true high functioning teams. I was looking to find a way to get an honest assessment of my team’s health that went beyond the typical employee engagement survey. I wanted to learn more deeply how to hurdle engagement and get to transcendence. I found that highly functional as well as greatly dysfunctional teams can suffer from the similar issues of psychological safety in their work environment. As I learned more about this area, it became clear that it might be the silver bullet I was looking for to create that ideal workplace.”

Vice President

Technology Organization

“After going through an intro session with Stephanie, I learned as much about myself as I did about the rest of my team. Psychological safety is a journey, not a meeting or a cadence; it’s a workstyle and a lifestyle. You have to orient your entire approach differently. Just in the immediate few days after our first session, I began thinking more about my peers’ motivations more deeply and how that tied to their goals and behaviors. While I have a ton more to learn, I compare it to learning Physics when you’ve only been taught Chemistry or Calculus when you’ve only known Algebra. Nothing that you’ve learned before is wrong, but there’s now a different way to solve problems that I didn’t know before.”

Vice President

Technology Organization

“I’m always looking for ways to create a safe working space and unlock the true potential of my team. Stephanie is the go-to if you want to get the best out of your team. She introduced me to psychological safety and helped me realize that you can unlock step function increases in productivity by applying straightforward concepts that create a truly safe space.”