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.

The Empathy Clinic

The clinic is committed to the teaching, practice, and improvement of empathy. Empathy is a starting point for compassion; what we do when we care about each other. Appreciating the experience of another person is a capacity and a skill. Whether we’re in a relationship, in the family, with friends, or in the workplace, they all work better and smoother when empathy is being practised.

Founder

EmpathifyU

 Empathy Architect at EmpathifyU

AB MD PRO CORP

President

Dr. Ashok Bhattacharya

2006. C.A.K.E; a guide to reciprocal empathy. A manual for consolidating marriage relationships.
2016. Deep fried nerves. A fictional novel that follows a burnt out psychiatrist through to his recovery.

Author

Dr. Ashok Bhattacharya MD, FRCP

Private practice specializing in individual and couple psychotherapy.

Psychiatrist

Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto

Chief Resident in Psychiatry

Founder and President of the Empathy Clinic

Yes, I’m a psychiatrist…but I use the tools of empathy to diagnose and treat my clients. 

Empathy isn’t only for the office; it’s the glue of connection for all of us. 

A team that practices empathy within that team will produce more with less stress and more pride. 

I bring that to you your group. Empathy is teachable and I practice and teach it everyday. 

I write about empathy, present at conferences around the world, and build it into my family, my life as a doctor, and my art as a composer/musician. 

Let’s bring empathy to you. 


Books: 

Cake; a guide to reciprocal empathy. A manual for consolidating marriage relationships.

https://www.amazon.ca/C-K-Reciprocal-Empathy-Couples/dp/1425951937/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&qid=1617328254&refinements=p_27%3AAshok+Bhattacharya+M.D.&s=books&sr=1-1&text=Ashok+Bhattacharya+M.D.



Deep Fried Nerves. A fictional novel that follows a burnt out psychiatrist through to his recovery.

https://www.amazon.ca/Deep-Fried-Nerves-Ashok-Bhattacharya-ebook/dp/B01N3Q4KN0



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