Illuminating the Genius of Wine
Insights for Modern Leadership and Life
CLARITY · COURAGE · CONVICTION
Self-Empowerment For Life
Powerful keynotes for business leaders, entrepreneurs, professionals & growth-minded audiences
Keynotes with curated wine tastings for leadership retreats and business or alumni wine clubs
Voice of Experience. Soul of a Storyteller. Power to Move a Room.
“Powerful, relatable, and inspiring! Wow! Wow! Wow!
Stephanie’s parallels between wine and how we ourselves evolve are phenomenal. It is unique and so refreshing!” - Lynn Gillette
Stephanie draws on her wine career and expertise to bridge life and leadership insights —uncorked with depth and nuance uniquely her own.
I’m Stephanie Morton-Small—MBA, wine multi-certified, global wine business leader, and award-winning songwriter. I’ve lived on four continents, led world-class brands, founded ventures, and navigated bold life decisions that sparked creative breakthroughs.
As a speaker, I help business leaders, professionals, entrepreneurs, and growth-minded audiences unlock clarity, courage, and conviction by trusting their inner guidance and owning their power. This is more than mindset. This is self-empowerment for life.
Through memorable metaphors and powerful storytelling—delivered with insight, soul, and wit—my keynotes blend leadership and lived experience.
The result? Audiences walk away inspired, emboldened, and ready to act. Because when self-trust is ignited, everything changes—how we lead, to how we decide, how we grow.
Stephanie catalyzes self-empowered leadership—igniting clarity, courage, and conviction.
After hearing Stephanie speak, audiences are ready to turn challenges into opportunities, decisions into momentum, and leadership into legacy. They will:-
Trust their Instincts
Accelerate decisions & cut delays
Make Courageous Decisions
Unlock growth & fuel innovation
Lead Decisively in Uncertainty
Sustain momentum and focus
Inspire Trust and Alignment
Strengthen culture
Uncertain leadership drains energy, trust & progress. Clarity, courage & conviction create growth and a powerful legacy.
Testimonials
"Completely Riveting”
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"The World Needs More of This!"
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"Her Wine Parallels are Phenomenal. Unique and So Refreshing!”
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"Extraordinary"
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"Wisdom, Courage and Joy"
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"Thought Leader"
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"WOW! Powerful, Relatable, Inspiring!"
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"Completely Riveting” ~ "The World Needs More of This!" ~ "Her Wine Parallels are Phenomenal. Unique and So Refreshing!” ~ "Extraordinary" ~ "Wisdom, Courage and Joy" ~ "Thought Leader" ~ "WOW! Powerful, Relatable, Inspiring!" ~
Book Stephanie for Keynotes, Leadership Retreats or Alumni Wine Clubs
Stephanie offers multiple keynotes—available as standalone presentations for conferences, or as a themed series providing inspiration for leadership retreats and multi-day events.
Stephanie delivers “Wine’s Unfiltered Genius” with curated wine pairings—each wine metaphor brings a leadership perspective to life, turning the keynote and tasting into an engaging, insight-driven experience. It’s an exceptional opener or finale for leadership retreats, and for business and alumni wine clubs.
SIGNATURE KEYNOTE
“Wine’s Unfiltered Genius: Lessons in Life, Leadership & the Long Game.”
Stephanie’s flagship keynote series, Wine’s Unfiltered Genius, can be delivered as a stand-alone keynote, a themed series for conferences and multi-day events, or with curated wine pairings at leadership retreats.
Perfect for business leaders, entrepreneurs, growth-minded audiences seeking fresh perspectives, and for alumni or business wine clubs
Emotionally intelligent stories that shift mindset.
A speaker who brings business credibility and soulful depth.
What if the finest leadership lessons weren’t in a book—but in a bottle?
Stephanie captivates as she uncorks the wisdom of wine to reveal life and leadership truths.
This isn’t a talk about wine—it’s about what wine reveals. Through wine’s metaphoric genius, themes of courage, resilience, intuition, authenticity, self-belief and self-trust, come to life—showing us how to live, evolve and lead with purpose and how clarity, conviction, and courage drive growth and transform organizations.
Stephanie delivers stories that are raw, witty, and powerfully resonant—each wine-life metaphor paired with hard-won insight from her richly varied experience and globe-trotting wine business career. From boardrooms to vineyards to creative breakthroughs and soul-deep clarity, she brings a perspective few can offer.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
• Don’t mistake the discomfort of transformation for failure.
• Great leaders pair instinct with insight. That’s strategic courage in action.
• Your authentic self is both your power and your contribution—own it, live it, lead with it.
• Conviction doesn’t come from approval of others. It comes from inner alignment.
KEYNOTE #2
“Intuition Talks: Self-Empowerment Anytime, Anywhere.”
Available as a keynote or a retreat experience.
Ideal for Personal Growth Seekers and Forward Thinking Leaders Ready For New Perspectives.
Tap into clarity, courage & conviction.
Empowering, practical insights that turn instinct into action.
Lead with clarity, courage, and conviction—quiet the doubt and trust the wisdom within. This isn’t about ignoring logic—it’s about enhancing our perspective by engaging our intuition. Steph brings a practical approach—showing that intuition isn’t mystical; it’s real, powerful and available to each of us, in real-time. This is self-empowerment, for life.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
• Clarity is always available—especially when the world gets loud.
• Your intuition is a trusted compass for decisions in business and life.
• Intuitive inspired action leads to courage, conviction, and lasting self-empowerment.
• In retreat format, interactive activities embed learning and application.
FAQ
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Stephanie’s inspirational keynotes resonate with business leaders and entrepreneurs because she is herself a global wine business leader, entrepreneur, and creative force with richly varied life experience.
Her talks stand strong as powerful one-off keynotes or as a themed series across multi-day events. She also offers a keynote paired with a curated wine tasting—an interactive, sensory experience that sparks connection and insight. Perfect as the opening or finale of a leadership retreat, it leaves teams engaged, inspired, and talking long after the last glass.
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As a successful, highly respected and well-profiled businesswoman in the wine industry, Stephanie speaks from her three-decade experience, engaging her audiences on navigating business and life.
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Stephanie offers highly engaging, speaker-led wine tasting experiences that reveal the deeper wisdom of wine—where each glass becomes a metaphor for life. In her captivating talk Wine’s Unfiltered Genius, curated wine pairings turn philosophy into flavor and meaning—each metaphor illuminating a new perspective, uncorked through nuanced stories from her globe-trotting, richly varied wine life, while each wine echoes and amplifies that wisdom through its own unique story. These experiences weave storytelling, insight, and sensory discovery into a thought-provoking journey that goes far beyond the traditional tasting.
Tailored to your group, it’s ideal for business networks and private or alumni wine clubs seeking something elevated, meaningful, and memorable—an experience that lingers long after the last glass is poured.
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Stephanie is available as a panelist and speaks from her diverse life experience, which includes both business and creative worlds.
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Stephanie offers “Wine, Whisper & Song” is an artfully curated journey exploring life through the lens of wine and song, presented by a wine expert and an award-winning songwriter. This one-of-a-kind experience is an ideal offering for wineries to host or for wellbeing events at retreats, hotels or resorts in wine regions.
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Stephanie is a multi-award-winning lyricist and soon-to-be published author. Having established herself as a successful business leader prior to embarking on her creative journey, she understands how to balance diverse pursuits, how to chase your dreams, and how to get into the creative flow - all while keeping a roof over your head and navigating other challenges along the way.