Dr. Stacy Feiner is an accomplished psychologist, business leader, innovator, author, and mom. She advises private and family-owned businesses with a pro-growth, pro-health approach that ensures leaders solve emotionally charged situations, move forward, and increase enterprise value and family connection. Curious about people and culture, Stacy has lived in 8 US cities and traveled through 9 countries. A Doctor of Psychology (PsyD), Stacy is an expert at helping complex people systems shape...

Dr. Lise Janelle is a renowned growth accelerator coach who empowers her clients with her groundbreaking Heart Freedom Method, facilitating rapid transformation by dismantling subconscious barriers to success. She’s been featured in many radio and TV interviews, including on CBC News and CTV’s Canada AM. She shares insights on overcoming inner resistance. A former championship rower and pioneer in women’s Ice Canoeing, Lise embraces outdoor challenges like scaling Kilimanjaro and La Haute...

Kristi Baxter is a trusted advisor and change partner to executives, leaders, and entrepreneurs. She blends practical experience as an operator with Disney and Coca-Cola, life experience of growing up in a family business, and her inside-out coach approach to help clients achieve extraordinary results and transformation. She integrates a deep appreciation for the beautiful mess of our humanity and a "lead thyself" mentality to guide clients through change, boldly meeting challenges head-on...

Amanda Osmer is the fourth-generation owner of Grappone Automotive Group. Osmer’s great-grandparents, Rocco and Emanuela Grappone, were Italian immigrants who opened a gas station in Concord in 1924. Her grandfather, John Grappone, worked for 79 years to help expand that single business into the Grappone Automotive Group, which today encompasses five New Hampshire dealerships, representing Ford, Honda, Hyundai, Mazda, and Toyota, as well as one of northern New England’s largest wholesale...

Russ Haworth is a specialist family business adviser and works with families from all over the world to help them understand what role their family business can play in living fulfilled lives. He is the Co-Director of The Land of Giants, a research project that looks at how the rising generation are able to find significance and identity when they have grown up around significant wealth and/or achievement. Russ is a regular speaker at National and International conferences and provides...

Troy is the Founder and CEO of Mosaic Research Management, founded in June 2010. Prior to founding Mosaic, Troy was a proprietary research analyst at Elliott Management Corp, a multi-strategy hedge fund firm based in New York with more than $20 billion assets under management. Troy received a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania. When away from the office, Troy enjoys working out, meditating, listening to audio books, discussing business with friends, and...

Tsitsi Mutendi is an internationally recognized Family Business Expert and Family Office Advisor (focused on building multigenerational family wealth). She is a third-generation family business owner, who has learnt how to build and grow business from her predecessors, but like many African family business owners, she has had to build her own businesses from the entrepreneurial spirit that has been cultivated over generations. Unlike the adage, shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves, she did not...

Melissa Borowicz has been dedicated to working with companies since 2004, focusing on defining corporate culture and aiding leaders to maximize their management teams and personnel. With an adept understanding of relational barriers and their impact on personal and company growth l, Borowicz offers practical solutions that enhance value at every stage. Her comfortable and relaxed style ensures ease among individuals during challenging leadership transitions. Borowicz’s ability to effectively...

Challenging Power Structures: The Rise of Women in Executive Roles With Amanda Laden Amanda Laden is the Founder & CEO of The FireBrand Institute, Period to Pause, and The VinoKarma Project. Her mission to help fast-growing businesses develop growth strategies, align leadership, and identify market opportunities for change. Amanda is passionate about helping entrepreneurs and businesses acquire fresh insights, answer critical business questions, and innovate and accelerate business...

Kiva Schuler is the Founder and CEO of The Jai Institute for Parenting, and the author of the ground-breaking book The Peaceful Parenting (R)evolution: Changing the World by Changing How We Parent which examines the “consequences” of traditional parenting methods and offers a more modern approach grounded in emotional intelligence, values-led leadership, and effective communication. Kiva’s passion for parenting stemmed from her own childhood experiences of neglect and trauma. Like many of...

Guest Bio Stephen is an integrative coach, healer and meditation teacher at Qineticare who supports individual and multi-generational family healing and harmony. Having trained in counselling, education and business he launched 3 educational institutions, composed several music albums and published 10 books including “Raising Our Vibration: A Guide to Subtle Energy Meditation.” He continues to pioneer neuroscience research with labs in Japan on the effect of subtle energy spiritual exercises...

Should You Fire Family? Strategies for Managing Family Member Employees With Chris Yonker In this episode, Chris Yonker talks about hiring and managing family members in a family business. Hear about how to bring family members into the business, how to deal with underperforming family members, and the importance of implementing reviews into the business structure.     What You’ll Learn ●      Policies around bringing in family members. ●      Dealing with underperforming family...

David DeWolf is the Founder & CEO of Knownwell. David founded and served as CEO of 3Pillar Global, a digital product development organization that grew every year under his leadership. 3Pillar was named on the Inc. 5000, a list of the fastest-growing private companies in the US, ten separate times. David oversaw the company’s sale to private equity companies while he served as CEO, twice. David is an angel investor, backing companies and leaders who have visions for companies that can...

Shi Yan Ming is a 34th Generation Shaolin Warrior Monk and Founder & Abbot of USA Shaolin Temple. Named “a real-life superhero” by The RZA from Wu-Tang Clan, Shifu’s 1-inch punch is more powerful than a car at 35mph as recorded by History Channel’s show, Stan Lee’s Super Humans. His disciples and students include Bokeem Woodbine of Spiderman, Wesley Snipes of Blade, RZA, Rosie Perez, and many more. As one of the most respected martial art legends of all time, he has been featured in...

Brandon Kleinman is the Founder of Birthday App, Showroom Inc., Laurel & Wolf, and BrainMuffin. He previously served as an Imagineer at Disney, and Global Strategy DIrector at TWBA/Chiat/Day.   What You’ll Learn ●      How to overcome self-doubt. ●      The most important questions to ask ourselves. ●      How to find the path to innovation. ●      Choosing innovation versus tradition.   Timestamps ·       [04:20] Getting into entrepreneurship. ·       [07:32] Where did...

Bill Stranberg is a Partner with Stranberg Resource Group and is experienced in multi-industry, multi-discipline executive search and recruitment. His industry experience includes projects with consumer and industrial manufacturing clients, ranging in size from small cap to multi-national, and including many private and family-owned companies. Bill’s functional focus with SRG has been in sales and marketing, general management, and operations. Bill joined SRG in 2013, prior to which he spent...

Celeste J. Ross, MA, HHC, GCFP, is the founder and owner of Inside Out Ventures, helping build educational, business, and family leaders from the inside out.  For over 25 years she has been combining her abilities as an educator, trainer/facilitator, and licensed Kolbe® Consultant to provide transformational experiences that develop the innate abilities of individuals, teams, families, and organizations.  Celeste has worked internationally and throughout the United States as a consultant,...

Tim Winders is a executive coach, author, and host of SeekGoCreate, a podcast and YouTube interview show. He has worked in the areas of leadership, business, and ministry for almost 40 years. Tim was the guy that looked like he had it all: the big house in a Country Club resort, two businesses valued at over a million dollars each, plus over $15 million in real estate. But, in 2008, the real estate markets crashed. After a slow and painful erosion of his companies, he and his wife were...

Karen Eber is an author, leadership consultant, and keynote speaker. Her TED Talk on how your brain responds to stories continues to inspire millions. Her book, The Perfect Story: How to Tell Stories That Inform, Influence, and Inspire, was selected as a Next Big Ideas Club must read. As the CEO and Chief Storyteller of Eber Leadership Group, Karen helps Fortune 500 companies like GE and Microsoft build leaders, teams, and culture, one story at a time. She guest lectures at universities,...

Jane Johnson is the President and Co-Founder of Business Transition Academy, Inc. As a former business owner who successfully guided her business for 14 years until it was acquired in 2004, Jane discovered how much time, planning, and preparation were necessary to consummate the sale of her business, achieve her goals, and ensure business continuity. This experience fueled her desire to assist other business owners with their ownership transitions, whether they intend to transfer their...

Rodrigo Himiob is an Advisor and Managing Director at Generation6, a global family business advisory firm. He also serves as an Advisor to the BCBR Program at Santa Clara University. Prior to this, he served as the VP of Operations and Partner of Houston Anodes, as an Advisory Board Member of the Corrosion Technology Program at Houston Community College, and as the Manager of Corrosion Services at TRC Companies, Inc. Venezuelan-born, Rodrigo is a third-generation business owner whose...

Trey Taylor is the Managing Director of Threadneedle, the Taylor Family Office, Chief Executive Officer of Taylor Insurance Services, Managing Director of trinity | blue consulting, and Founding Partner of Ascend Partners. He is also an investor, the Author of A CEO Only Does Three Things, a frequently featured keynote speaker, a private pilot, a WSET-Certified sommelier, and the Co-Founder of Tyche Wines. Georgia Trend Magazine named Trey as one of their 40 under 40 in 2013, and TinyHR...

Click HERE, for the original episode on the Seek Go Create podcast, listen here:   Reasons to Listen: Explore pathways to reach new heights in personal and career growth. Recognize the importance of aligning with core values for intentional living. Tap into the dynamics of family businesses and the obstacles they may encounter. Realize the essential nature of self-awareness in coaching scenarios and beyond. Cultivate a mindset that promotes sustainable and effective change in life. Episode...

    David Karofsky is a principal consultant with The Family Business Consulting Group, specializing in advising family businesses around the challenges and opportunities inherent to the family business.  Prior to working with The Family Business Consulting Group, David worked in his own family business consulting practice with his father for eight years. The father-son team are the authors of So You’re in the Family Business: A Guide to Sustainability. In addition, David was vice...