Scott Stein

Leadership & Performance Expert

Scott Stein, known as The Pathfinder, is a leadership and performance expert who helps individuals and organisations focus on what truly matters. Drawing on Native American principles, practical business experience and adventure leadership, Scott has inspired thousands of executives and teams worldwide to improve results and personal performance.

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Scott Stein is known as the Pathfinder. He teaches individuals and organisations to improve their performance by inspiring their people and teams to do what matters. Drawing from his Native American heritage, he applies ancient principles to motivate people. As a speaker, trainer and coach, he has inspired and challenged thousands of executives and business owners who have achieved great success at work and in their personal lives.

With a demonstrated understanding of your business and the reinforcement of current management messages, Scott Stein will deliver practical and proven strategies that can be used to increase individual and collective effectiveness and awareness

Although his great grandmother was a full-blooded Cherokee medicine woman, Scott Stein did not learn the Cherokee ways and grew up in a typical suburban family in America. He has always been drawn to the wilderness and became an adventure guide, leading or participating in adventure trips across the United States, Canada, Europe, South America, Asia and Australia. He was fortunate to be taught by a teacher who had learnt the art of awareness, survival and philosophy from an Apache elder.

After receiving his Masters Degree, Scott Stein taught Communication and Public Speaking at Central Michigan University. His role as a learning and development manager for five manufacturing plants gave him an opportunity to hone his practical business skills as he assisted in turning the enterprise around by improving the culture and lifting performance.

Scott has been based in Sydney, Australia, since 1995 as an owner of a national learning and development company and now travels the globe to help people identify and take action toward their critical path. As a consultant to many leading national and international businesses and organisations, he guides them in implementing strategies that inspire their leaders and their people to do the things that matter in the right order to achieve improved results.

A Thought Leader Global Partner, Scott co-authored Thought Leaders: How to capture, package and deliver your ideas for greater commercial success and Sell Your Thoughts: How to earn a million dollars a year as a Thought Leader.

Scott believes in building community and giving back. He is a founding board member of Hands Across the Water, an Australian charity established after the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami. It has raised almost $15million and cares for over 600 children across six orphanages and a community centre in Thailand. What makes the charity unique is that 100 per cent of donations go directly to the projects without any funds being spent on administration, marketing or staff in Australia.

Scott worked with my business and his approach is though provoking and insightful, with the right amount of practical actionable advice - some of which is still a talking point within my team. REA Group
Whatever the organisational change, management challenge, Scott has the ability to quickly understand the underlying issues, and work with the leadership team to take on the challenge. In his true Thought Leader style, he prods senior managers to clarify their own assumptions & thinking, often leading to breakthroughs. City of Sydney
Scott worked with my business and his approach is thought provoking and insightful, with the right amount of practical actionable advice - some of which is still a talking point within my team Westpac