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 Thought Box

Whether it’s through 1-2-1 coaching, self-coaching methods, group support or workshops - I am committed to helping working parents thrive in a way that works for them. 

Using mental fitness alongside mindset management techniques, I support new parents transition back to work following parental leave, and help working parents ENJOY their various roles and responsibilities.

The result? Team culture is enhanced and businesses are able to retain key talent, because employee engagement improves. 

Working parents who want to level-up or who struggle with a work-life balance are supported through creating alignment between their values and actions, resulting in improved commitment, productivity and mental health. 

My process involves:
•	Identifying your true values
•	Understanding your experiences to benefit your future
•	Developing key principles that will lead to success
•	Laser-focused sessions on your biggest challenges for the month
•	Mastering the mind by understanding it
•	Making intentional choices that get you the results you want

Book a free consultation with me or check out my Parental Power-Up program to explore different ways to become a stronger version of yourself.

If you're a business, let's talk about how to retain and enhance the incredible talent new mums and working parents bring to your teams.

#workingparents #workingmums #maternityleave #worklifebalance #diversityandinclusion

Founder & Lead Coach

Parent Cloud

Specialist Coach

Galliford Try plc

National Customer Services Manager

Kier Group

Interim Contract Manager

MITIE

Multi-Site Facilities Manager

Assistant Facilities Manager

Facilities Administrator

Working Parent Coach | Speaker | Specialist Maternity Programme | Helping businesses retain female talent

Who Am I?

As a psychology graduate and certified Positive Intelligence coach with a diploma in Life Coaching, Mindfulness and Mindfulness for children, I use my skills and experience to coach working parents to master a healthy work-life balance, without losing themselves in the process. I am also passionate about creating awareness of the challenges parents face in the modern world, improving D&I for working parents.

What do I do?

A combination of training and coaching, with mental fitness exercises that supports a stronger mindset and improves the working experience for busy parents. Simple and practical hacks that improve workplace wellness, increase mindfulness in parenting and support energy management are key to living a more balanced life. Using these strategies, we are able to refocus, reframe and re-empower individuals. 

Why do I do it?

Supporting working parents is more than just practical measures like hybrid working and family days. I focus on the mental and emotional aspects of parenthood, considering the unique challenges they face in today’s face-paced, high-pressured world.  Emotional and mental wellbeing have taken a backseat to the demands of our modern world, resulting in burnout. Through a shift in how we think about the world of working parents, we can completely change the trajectory of their experience, which is imperative because the future is literally in their hands.

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