Stacy Kehren Idema, PMP

Hi, I’m Stacy, 
a small-town lake country girl turned modern traditionalist, building emotionally intelligent technology and presence-based leadership systems for the future of legacy.

Since I was ten, I’ve believed business could be done differently — not just more efficiently, but more humanly.

For 27+ years, I led innovation across startups and Fortune 5 companies. I learned how systems scale and how trust breaks, whether because emotion gets edited out or because unchecked emotion runs the show.

When it was time to choose what came next, I couldn’t return to the system I once believed would take me to the top.

That decision sparked my current path, one that bridges emotional intelligence, technology, and generational wealth.

I founded Equati to help family offices, investors, and founders align values, vision, and legacy within their direct investing. Because legacy isn’t numbers on a page; it's a living system shaped by presence, trust, and the way we communicate across generations.

Alongside Equati, I serve as a Presence-Based Chief of Staff & Leadership Consigliere --- a strategic partner to founders, principals, and family enterprises navigating growth, succession, or strategic inflection points.

My work blends strategic clarity with emotional intelligence, helping leaders create coherence across their people, priorities, and processes.

Today, I work with:
→ Family Offices & Investors designing continuity and trust across generations
→ Principals and founders needing strategic partnership and grounded decision support
→ UHNW families preparing for legacy transitions and the Great Wealth Transfer
→ Companies built for patient, purpose-driven capital

Because how we invest, lead, and live isn’t separate from who we are.
It's the story of legacy in motion.

When I’m not building or serving leaders, you’ll find me between Austin, TX and Minneapolis, MN driving my Jeep with the top off, baking (my signature is banana bread with a salty crust), or on a flight across an ocean with camera in hand, writing about the messy, human side of legacy, leadership, and love.

Because the way we invest, lead, and live is the story we leave behind.

✳️ stacy@equati.ai
 | www.equati.ai

Founder & Managing Director

The Global Collective is the gateway to a new business ecosystem that empowers and harmonizes gender strengths and diversity in business around the globe.
 
We partner with investment companies that are ready to invest in female-founded/led businesses, help the businesses with which they've already invested be better winners and create a culture of performance and flow with less burnout.
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Our vision is to eliminate the diversity gap, whilst changing gender perceptions by connecting the unique strengths of each gender, which will also increase the financial benefit and mental well-being in business.

Andy Cairns

RAVL

RAVL is a ground-breaking new travel and social networking app to greatly improve how you experience your time away from home. Launching in 2022, RAVL will allow members to find and meet other members with similar interests who are in the same place at the same time. Through hand-picked partnerships, members can attend networking events, participate in members-only activities and take advantage of exclusive offers, while supporting local businesses at their destination.

Co-Founder

Cairns Consulting Ltd

Working in partnership with clients to deliver transformative and valuable improvements to HR services. Including:

- Management of large-scale technology implementations, including Core HR, CRM, Learning, Recruitment, Case Management and Knowledge Management
- Design and implementation of HR Processes, including Workforce Administration, Compensation Management, Recruitment and Onboarding
- Management of large teams of client resources and 3rd party vendors
- Trusted advisor to Senior stakeholders
- Management of (and SME participation in) vendor selection processes
- Subject matter expertise in Agile/Scrum, Waterfall and hybrid implementation methodologies
- Ad-hoc advisory services

Clients include:
- Barclays Plc
- Willis Towers Watson
- London Stock Exchange Group

Founder/Tea Boy

Barclays

Responsible for the delivery of the Events & Roadshow Marketing technology platform.

OneEvent Project Manager

Transform OM Programme Lead

OM Transformation Project Manager

Bibby Financial Services

Project Manager (JD Edwards & RiskFactor)

TeliaSonera

Project Manager (HR Master Data Consolidation)

Xerox

Project Manager (HR, S&A, Data Services) & Cutover Manager (Release 1.0.4)

HCL-Axon

Managing Consultant

Royal Mail

Programme Controls Consultant

Lloyds Banking Group

SAP HR Consultant/Offshore Co-ordinator

JTI (Japan Tobacco International)

Integration Lead/Lead Consultant

I've spent a lot of time in hotel rooms, watching 24 hour news and eating room service while on business trips. It always seemed like a wasted opportunity. I imagined there would be people like me, sitting in their hotel rooms in the same city at the same time.

Finding those people always proved to be too much of a challenge.

Luckily, I managed to team up with a couple of people in the same boat and we decided to do something about it. 

I'm delighted to introduce RAVL, a social network for business and solo travellers.

With RAVL, members can
- find other members with the same interests who are in the same place at the same time.
- attend members-only networking and social events wherever they are in the world (or create their own events and invited other members)
- connect with local businesses wherever they travel to for exclusive discounts and special offers
- browse our library of content produced with our members in mind to get the most out of the limited free time they have at their destination.

We've all had a rough year when it comes to travel but I'm optimistic that we'll be back on the road soon and I want to help people have the best experience while they're away from home.

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