Stefane Cahill Farella

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Stéfane Cahill Farella is a leadership coach and organization development consultant, who
specializes in developing leaders and teams in high-change settings. He brings thirty years of
diverse leadership experience across business functions including real estate, mergers and
acquisitions, marketing, human resources, and legal. Stéf has worked in a variety of service
industries including higher education, health care, entertainment, technical recruitment, food and
beverage, and non-profit. His special areas of focus include helping clients navigate
organizational change, manage conflict, lead inclusively, develop strategic vision and improve
public speaking. Stéf’s coaching is driven by data, focused on business results, biased towards
action and empathetic. He is a dynamic facilitator, team builder and speaker who weaves
organization development theory and business practice to help his clients enhance their
effectiveness.
Having joined Boston College in 2015 in the office of employee development, Stéf is helping to
build the organizational effectiveness function within the context of existing learning and
development activities. His focus and aspirations have been in providing three primary service
lines: coaching services (leadership, developmental), group development services (team building,
retreat services, group problem solving), and organizational consulting (change management,
process improvement). Examples of recent work include: coaching senior leaders in the Center
for Digital Innovation and Learning and the Connell School of Nursing; group development for the

newly created Pine Manor Institute for Student Success; delivering workshops on self-
assessments, team instruments, and leadership models (e.g., Situational Leadership II, CliftonStrengths, Crucial Conversations, DiSC); collecting and delivering 360 feedback; facilitating
diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging dialogue; team norming; team role clarification and new
leader assimilation processes. Stéf is a designer and facilitator for the Ignatian Leadership
Development Program (ILDP), a new cohort-based program for senior leaders at BC to deepen
their understanding of the Ignatian tradition and accelerate the effectiveness of their leadership
practice. Further, Stéf was one of the founders of the Boston College Toastmasters Club in 2018,
a peer-learning organization that focuses on public speaking and leadership.
Stéf’s passion for coaching individuals and teams to achieve extraordinary results extends into
leadership roles within the community. For twenty years, Stéf served as a coordinating coach at
Babson College for the Coaching for Leadership and Teamwork Program, an innovative
developmental coaching initiative for business school students. He also served for fifteen years
in a leadership capacity for Engaged Encounter, an international Catholic marriage preparation
program. Further, Stéf was appointed by Cardinal Sean O’Malley to a multi-year task force
charged with studying and redesigning marriage preparation programs across the Archdiocese of
Boston, which resulted in the creation of Transformed in Love.
Stéf earned advanced degrees from William James College (GCEC) and Babson College (MBA).
He has a BA in History from the College of the Holy Cross. He lives in Framingham, MA with his
wife and seven children.