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.

Gartner

Founded in 1979, Gartner delivers actionable, objective insight to executives and their teams. Our expert guidance and tools enable faster, smarter decisions and stronger performance on an organization’s most critical priorities.

Our unmatched combination of expert-led, practitioner-sourced and data-driven research steers clients toward the right decisions on the issues that matter most. We’re trusted as an objective resource and critical partner by more than 15,000 organizations in more than 100 countries — across all major functions, in every industry and enterprise size.

To learn more about how we help decision makers fuel the future of business visit: gartner.com

Senior Global Enterprise Recruiter, Sales

Spoleto Partners, LLC

Spoleto Partners is an executive and career coaching firm serving executives, professionals poised for growth and talent in transition. Relationships are at our core. Facilitating breakthroughs are our passion.

Executive and Career Coach

PepsiCo

Key talent acquisition advisor and partner to HR business partners and functional hiring teams regarding market and employment trends, compensation, skills/attributes, target companies, recruitment strategies, interviewing/assessments, and sourcing tactics. 
Currently responsible for the development and execution of the talent acquisition strategy for the Pepsi Beverages North America (PBNA) Sector, Division, Foodservice Marketing and all functions for the Pepsi/Lipton Partnership and North American Coffee Partnership groups. Historically supported designated groups within the Corporate Functions (Global Procurement, Corp Communication, Aviation, Facilities, and Security), Sales and Supply Chain (PBNA), eCommerce, Global and Field Marketing, Innovation, Commercialization and Away From Home (Foodservice) segments for PepsiCo. 
Accountability includes:
•	Ensure the quality of the service delivered by talent acquisition to the business and the candidate is best in class
•	Act as a thought partner and coach to HR and the business when it comes to all things recruiting and hiring
•	Source, identify and interview appropriate talent
•	Develop and align with the business on the recruitment strategy for each role
•	Incorporate diversity to candidate slates and execute accordingly in order to meet the needs of the business
•	Manage the recruiting process from job posting through the final stages (inclusive of offer recommendation and creation, negotiation, closing, and onboarding)

Talent Acquisition Business Partner

Dynamic, results focused with a commitment to excellence in service, creative execution, and facilitation of transformational success. 

Specialties: Executive Coaching, Career Strategy & Coaching, Full Life Cycle Talent Acquisition, Business Development

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