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.

Creating Genuine Leaders ™️💎Executive Life & Leadership Coach 🎙️Keynote Speaker 📕Story Teller 🖋️Writer 🪷Poet 💎Co-Creator Imagemakers International 🎁 Life is a gift. Open it.™️

Where have all the genuine leaders gone?

Today, more than ever, there is a call for genuine leaders. 

We need leaders who care.  
We need leaders who understand the meaning of respect and the subtleties of respect.
We need genuine leaders. 

The question is, how do you become one? 

How do you ignite your potential from within?

How do you integrate your values, so that you are leading by example, every day?

Those are questions that we explore in both our online leadership and personal development courses and where we give you the tools to become the person and leader, others are inspired to emulate. 

Hello and thanks for stopping by. 

I'm Kimberley - Co-founder of Imagemakers International - a leadership development company that gives people the tools to reach their full potential and become genuine leaders.  

Unique and results-oriented, our programs will inspire you and/or your leaders to be the best they can possibly be. 

Over the past 25 years, we've had the privilege of working with clients in many diverse industries.  

Our corporate clients include companies such as Ernst & Young LLP, The Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario, (Toronto and Bermuda) Grant Thornton, Investors Group, AGF Mutual Funds, Federal Express, Maxium Financial, Sandals and Beaches Resorts and Universal Music. 

Keynotes:

I offer a number of engaging and thought-provoking keynotes that will inspire your people, to be the best they can be.  Inspiring, and highly interactive, these sessions will be remembered long after your event is over.

"Your presentation  is very solid, and having attended and viewed numerous self-help & spiritual  seminars (Dr. Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra, Anthony Robbins), you have it down pat.  Keep doing what you are doing - you were born to do this and I can attest, it's working!"

Executive Coaching Programs:

As all successful leaders must know themselves first, our core programs focus on increasing personal awareness and developing the qualities of a genuine leader. 

By developing skills that affect the whole person, participants discover how to reach their full potential and ignite the potential of those they lead.

In turn, they will learn how to get the best out of their people, attract and retain high-value employees and encourage personal accountability. 

Inspiring, thought-provoking and life-enriching, these programs will not only improve your bottom line, it will allow your leaders to make a difference and leave a lasting legacy.


Kimberley J. R.

“Self-worth allows you to own who you are at your core.  You no longer have to prove anything to anyone. Including yourself.” ~ Kimberley 



When you’ve gone down a path of deep healing, looking at your truth and accepting your life journey, you finally get to be you. 

Nothing to prove to anyone. 

You know who you are and what you stand for. 
You know you’re living your values. 
You are your genuine self. 
True to you. 

Do you know how liberating that is?
Do you know how freeing that is?
Do you know how magnificent that is?

It’s immeasurable.

You don’t have to name drop. 
You don’t have to show your credentials. 
You don’t have to flaunt your material possessions. 

You don’t have to be seen in fancy restaurants. 
You don’t have to create envy.
You simply get to be you. 

Nothing to prove to anyone. 

But, you do have to set boundaries. 
Teach people how you wish to be treated. 

You do have to be accountable for your actions. 
Personal accountability high. Standards higher. 

And you never settle. 

Not for a partner
Not for clients 
Not for a career
Not for family 

Your self-worth does not have to be validated by anyone else. 

That’s what self-love looks and feels like. 

And you’re worthy of that and so much more.

And that’s when others will call you a leader. 

And a genuine one at that. 

Keep shining. 

Life is a gift. Open it.™️

©️2025 All rights reserved. 
Kimberley J. Whiten 

Excerpt from my Upcoming book; Reflections on life, love and leadership.

🕊️To be released soon.

Creating Genuine Leaders™️| Co-founder & President 🕊️ Imagemakers International ] Leadership and Life Coach 🎙️Inspirational Speaker |Story Teller 🖋️ Poet and Author Life is a gift. Open it. ™️-

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