Success starts inside.

Heartstyles co-founders Stephen and Mara Klemich are a husband and wife duo who’ve dedicated their professional lives to understanding how we can harness our minds to tap into the best of our hearts. The Heartstyles Indicator, the tool they created to measure effective thinking and behaviors, has helped individuals, teams and organizations all over the world to unlock their potential. Now, their book Above the Line: Living and Leading with Heart is doing the same.

Stephen Klemich is a longtime leadership consultant, speaker, and CEO and he’s the founder of Heartstyles. Stephen has worked with teams across the globe, from small companies to multinational corporations such as KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Unilever, AMEX, and PwC. Stephen is an avid mountain climber and guide who has summited the Matterhorn, Mount Blanc, Mt Rosa, Eiger, Monch and Jungrfau, in addition to other peaks in the Himalayas and New Zealand. In 2019 he climbed 6 peaks in the Italian Alps. He has always viewed mountaineering as an important part of his own character development journey, and he has incorporated lessons he has learned in the mountains into many of the Heartstyles programs.

Mara Klemich, PhD, is a consulting psychologist, with degrees in clinical psychology and neuropsychology from the University of Sydney and the University of Paris and a founder of Heartstyles. Her career began in hospital systems in those cities, and she spent more than ten years as a clinical neuropsychologist working in the areas of alcohol-related brain damage, neurology and neurosurgery, traumatic brain injuries, psychiatry and neuropsychiatry, eating disorders, pain management, and trauma counseling in emergency departments. She also practiced as a forensic neuropsychologist in the criminal system, working on some of the highest-profile criminal cases in Australia. Mara has also conquered cancer three times.

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