Keynote Speaker · Advocate · Survivor-Leader
The Strength You Are Asking For Was Built Somewhere Difficult
Stephanie J. Bond is a CPA, finance executive, cancer survivor, and survivor of financial abuse who helps organizations understand resilience as something people build — not something they are born with. Her keynotes give audiences honest language, real credibility, and a way forward they can use.
- Stages and organizations
- 120+Stages and organizations
- Finance leadership experience
- 20 yrsFinance leadership experience
- Signature keynote experiences
- 6Signature keynote experiences
- Would recommend to a colleague
- 97%Would recommend to a colleague
Who She Is
Four credentials that rarely appear in the same person
Stephanie has sat on both sides of the table — running finance teams and rebuilding her own life. That combination is why boards, hospitals, campuses, and conferences trust her with difficult subject matter.
Keynote Speaker
National stages, leadership summits, and conferences where the room needs more than encouragement.
CPA and Finance Executive
Two decades in accounting leadership. She speaks about money with authority, not metaphor.
Survivor-Leader and Advocate
Lived experience of coercive control, financial abuse, and cancer — handled with discipline and care.
Trusted Guide for Teams
Practical language leaders can use on Monday, without asking anyone to disclose anything.
Signature Experiences
Six keynotes, each built for a specific room
Every experience is customized after a conversation with your team. Formats range from a 20-minute plenary to a half-day leadership intensive.
Find Your Path
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Her Story
She rebuilt in public so other people would not have to rebuild in silence
For years, Stephanie's professional life looked orderly. She was a CPA, a Vice President of Accounting and Finance, the person other people relied on to keep the numbers steady. At home, she was losing control of her own money, her own choices, and eventually her own sense of what was normal.
Leaving took longer than anyone outside the situation expects. Rebuilding took longer still — credit, custody, housing, identity, and then a breast cancer diagnosis that arrived while she was still finding her footing.
What she offers audiences now is not a triumph narrative. It is a working explanation of how people actually recover, why silence is so expensive, and what leaders and communities can do to shorten the distance between struggling and being seen.
Press and Endorsements
What the press, the academy, and event hosts have said
"Domestic violence suffers greatly from a 'not in my backyard' syndrome," Bond told the audience. "We think it happens to people over there."
While each of our panelists made important and insightful contributions, perhaps the most meaningful contribution of the day came from our keynote speaker, domestic violence survivor and advocate Stephanie J. Bond. Graciously sharing her story with our attendees and panelists, Stephanie spoke about the night she was shot by her husband. She shared about the painful series of events leading up to that night and the role the legal system played in that story. Although the story Stephanie shared is tragic, she and her children have exemplified resilience, hope, and strength in the aftermath. Today, in her role as an advocate, Stephanie devotes much of her time to speaking engagements where she emphasizes the unfortunate reality that her story is not unique. The heart of Stephanie’s message provides a vitally important backdrop for this symposium issue—gun laws in the United States have grave and tangible consequences for millions of real people every day.
I want to give a very special thanks to the CEO of Genesis Women’s Shelter & Support, Jan Langbein as well as the President of the Women’s Alliance at Genesis Women’s Shelter & Support and survivor, Stephanie J. Bond, CPA for hosting an educational session during convention weekend. This session, A Conversation About Domestic Violence, highlighted the incredible strength and resilience of survivors. It renewed my commitment to supporting survivors and, most importantly, believing them.
What an inspiring afternoon! 💜 Thank you to all who joined us to hear Stephanie J. Bond, CPA share her powerful story. Stephanie, VP of Accounting & Finance at Perot Development Company, shared her journey of resilience—overcoming domestic violence, financial hardship, and breast cancer while building a successful 30+ year career in CRE. Her story reminded us that strength and survival go hand in hand, and that community makes all the difference.
Notes for the Journey
Writing that gives you a reason to keep her in mind
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