Press Kit

Everything you need to promote the event

Approved biographies, photography, keynote descriptions, an introduction script, and interview topics — assembled so your team never has to ask twice.

Biographies

Three lengths, all approved

Copy any version directly. Please do not paraphrase the description of Stephanie's lived experience.

Short bio · 45 words

Stephanie J. Bond is a CPA, former finance executive, cancer survivor, and survivor of financial abuse. She speaks nationally on resilience, financial coercion, and leadership after adversity, helping organizations build cultures where difficulty surfaces early enough to matter.

Medium bio · 95 words

Stephanie J. Bond spent two decades in accounting and finance leadership, most recently as Vice President of Accounting and Finance, while privately navigating coercive control and financial abuse. She rebuilt her credit, her household, and her career with the same discipline she brought to a closing cycle — and then faced a breast cancer diagnosis mid-rebuild. Today she is a national keynote speaker and advocate whose sessions combine executive credibility with trauma-aware care. Audiences across corporate, healthcare, campus, faith, and advocacy settings describe her work as the first honest conversation they have had about resilience.

Long bio · 170 words

Stephanie J. Bond is a Certified Public Accountant, former Vice President of Accounting and Finance, breast cancer survivor, and survivor of financial abuse. For most of her career she was the person others relied on to keep the numbers steady, even as her own financial independence was quietly dismantled at home through consolidated accounts, credit opened in her name, and documentation that disappeared at inconvenient moments. Leaving took a plan built the way she would have built one at work: documentation, separation, stabilization. Rebuilding took longer, and a cancer diagnosis arrived in the middle of it. Stephanie now speaks nationally on resilience, financial coercion, organizational silence, rebuilding, and faith after adversity. Her six signature keynotes are customized after a discovery call and delivered with content notes, coordinated support resources, and no expectation that anyone in the room disclose anything. She also writes Notes for the Journey, a journal of reflections and essays for leaders, survivors, and the people who stand beside them.

Assets

Photography and documents

Headshot — studio

High-resolution portrait, neutral background. Print and web.

Headshot — square

Close crop suitable for podcast art and social profiles.

Stage photography

Three approved action shots from recent keynote engagements.

One-page speaker sheet

Bio, topics, formats, and testimonials on a single page.

AV and tech rider

Microphone, staging, and tech-check requirements.

Approved quotes

Pull quotes cleared for promotional use.

Stephanie J. Bond, keynote speaker, in a black blazer with arms foldedClose portrait of Stephanie J. Bond smiling in a navy blazerStephanie J. Bond presenting at a podium at SMU DallasStephanie J. Bond addressing the Women Who Soar audience in a cream suitStephanie J. Bond speaking from the podium in a rose-pink suitStephanie J. Bond in a blue suit during a fireside conversation on stage

Stage introduction

Read this before she walks out

"Our speaker tonight spent twenty years as a CPA and finance executive — the person her organizations trusted to keep the numbers steady. What almost no one knew was what she was navigating at home. She rebuilt her finances, her household, and her career from the ground up, and faced a cancer diagnosis in the middle of it. She is not here to inspire you. She is here to tell you the truth about how people recover. Please welcome Stephanie J. Bond."

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Keynote descriptions

From Surviving to Leading

A powerful exploration of resilience, identity, courage, and the leadership lessons that emerge when life forces us to rebuild.

Breaking Financial Silence

An honest and practical keynote about financial abuse, financial vulnerability, recovery, power, and the hidden barriers that keep people trapped.

Resilience After Adversity

A deeply human keynote about navigating illness, loss, uncertainty, and life-changing transitions without surrendering hope or purpose.

The Cost of Silence

A candid keynote on the measurable cost of silence inside organizations — and how leaders build cultures where difficulty surfaces early enough to matter.

Rebuilding From Zero

A workshop-style keynote on the actual sequence of rebuilding a life: credit, housing, work, identity, and the order in which they have to be tackled.

Still Standing

A warm, faith-forward keynote about holding belief and difficulty at the same time — and building communities where people do not have to perform restoration.

Interview topics

  • · Financial abuse as an economic and workplace issue
  • · What employers get wrong about supporting people in crisis
  • · Resilience versus endurance in leadership culture
  • · Breast cancer survivorship and identity after treatment
  • · Faith communities and coercive control
  • · Rebuilding credit and financial independence after abuse
  • · Responsible survivor storytelling in media

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