Stonebridge Partners HR

Stonebridge Partners is a small business built to serve small businesses. Our focus is simple — provide smarter, fairer solutions for benefits, staffing, and payroll, while keeping people and relationships at the center of everything we do. We understand the challenges owners face because we face them too — and that’s exactly why we care a little more, respond a little faster, and always put integrity before profit.

Co-Founder

Audience & Income

Member

Elite PEO LLC

Directed Elite PEO to 3 consecutive years of over $50M ARR, with yearly increases of 12%+.

Planned, directed and oversaw Elite PEO's operational policies, rules, initiatives, and goals. I helped the organization execute long-term and short-term plans and directives by implementing judgement, vision, management, and leadership.

I helped the company executives to manage all clients in New School ways utilizing a work ethic infused by Old School principles.

Chief Operating Officer

1P410 Sports Ventures, LLC

1P410 Sports was a fully integrated sports services company committed to structuring a balanced athletic plan for all. Within the 5500 square foot training facility, we provided personal and group fitness training, sports psychology, sports therapy, massage therapy, acupuncture, and a golf performance center. We utilized technology to help all members attain their goals.

Investor/Board Member

Invesco US

Managed over $80B (topping at $100B) in assets across multiple short-term fixed income sectors and currencies including Prime funds (US Dollar), Canadian, Tax-Exempt, US Dollar Offshore, US Gov't & US Treasury funds. Assets Under Management across Invesco topped $700B.
Authored weekly economic commentaries, presented data analysis on various market segments and provided strategic plan for ongoing portfolio management implementation.
Developed strong rapport with broker/dealer community and maintained attuned ear to market news and movement.
Interacted and collaborated with many internal departments to effectively manage, negotiate and excel through extreme periods of market volatility.

2002-2005 Invesco Fixed Income Internal Wholesaler

1999-2001 Senior Portfolio Assistant

Portfolio Manager

The Briarwood School

Taught Economics, World History, and World Geography to a dynamic group of high school students.  Briarwood is a unique environment with kids who need a more focused and targeted setting in which to learn and thrive.

Teacher

CEO Stonebridge Partners. Simple guidance for complex humans.

After two decades in big and small business — managing billions, scaling startups, and chasing someone else’s definition of success — I realized what was missing: purpose.

In 2019, I co-founded Stonebridge Partners to do things differently. We help small businesses cut through the noise of overpriced benefits, complex payroll systems, and the staffing chaos that never seems to end.

Our mission is simple:
Build real partnerships. Craft smarter solutions. Keep business human.

Because at Stonebridge, we believe small businesses deserve big-league support — without the big-business nonsense.

I share what we’re learning (and unlearning) here on LinkedIn — join me, and let’s build something better together.

I am only a DM away. And you are inching closer to better services from someone who knows and understands the challenges of small business.

Tom Gerhardt

✍🏼 As a writer and connector, I offer ghostwriting and branding strategy services to help you build an online presence that embodies your unique voice and attracts your ideal audience.

🌎 I am a perpetual learner in pursuit of knowledge, and a broader understanding of people, culture, and the ways in which we engage with one another. 📚

🤝 Through unique personal (having moved 10+ times before college) and professional experiences (working in non-profits, higher education, and tech), I have gained a perspective resulting in impressive communication skills and a talent for making friends. 🙂

📝 I love words and believe in their power to build bridges, impact and inspire our lives, and to drive change. ❤️

Lyndsee Nielson

A dream come true 🥹



I set out to make younger me proud this year. To give the version of Lyndsee, who thrived in art class and daydreamed about pictures she wanted to paint, a chance to explore. To revisit the little version of me that would color and draw to her heart’s content.

My muse: the young woman who applied and got accepted to art school, believing her days would be spent in the studio covered in paint, but was deterred by those that told her there was 'no money in pursuing art!

But it was never about the money. It was about seeing, and feeling, and creating. It was about something tangible, putting hand to paper; layering and playing and building. My mind made manifest in colors and shapes.

This year I decided to pursue my art earnestly. To make time for it and to get back to what fills my soul. And for the first time I got to see it hanging in a gallery in London 🥹

If it's important, then I'm going to make time for it and I'm going to do everything I can to achieve it.

Thanks to those who have supported me and cheered me on the whole way; those who continue to show up for me physically and emotionally. I'm so proud of this moment and grateful to have you along for the ride. So grateful for all of the new friends this journey is introducing me to and excited for all that lies ahead 🥰

Thank you also to my lovely and dear friend Meridith for being with me this weekend and taking all of these photos for me! ♥️

Your personal branding spirit guide ✨🔮

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I was feeling adrift at the end of last year.


Things—𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨—weren’t working.

I felt unsure about my work,
Confused by where to go and what to do next,
Anxious about committing to anything,
And was stuck in a cerebral loop.

So I decided that I was finally ready to seek help from a coach.

I needed some guidance.

Because solopreneurship can feel really lonely and overwhelming.

And even when you have a support system, no one quite gets exactly what you’re navigating, both externally and internally.

And after a call with Karen Canham, NBC-HWC, E-RYT I knew she was exactly the coach I’d been waiting for, and why I hadn’t yet chosen to work with someone else.

✨

With Karen’s guidance and the work we committed to for three months, I began to unpack what the concerns and emotions I’d been experiencing for the last six months were rooted in.

🫠 This near-constant fear of “the other shoe dropping” versus being excited about how things had been progressing.

😬 This heaviness of succeeding and a pressure of making it on my own.

😑 This fear of abandonment and anxiety around money, stability, and security.

Because it was all a part of my internal narrative, and a nervous system that needed regulating.

So I listened to my body, visited that deep inner knowing and, during a somatic meditation, I found self trust again.

Instead of feeling 𝙩𝙤𝙤 𝙢𝙪𝙘𝙝, it started feeling like I was able to compartmentalize these domineering thoughts. I was able to realize that I could trust myself, my instincts, and my capabilities.

And with some clarity, my needs and desires became more clear too.

I wanted to embrace my creativity.

Then I saw an ad on Instagram that was like a sign from the Universe.

I wanted to be a working artist.

I wanted to give that version of me who had planned to attend art school, spending everyday in a studio covered in paint, and who had always wanted to be an artist when she grew up some space to explore that very pursuit.

She was still there.

She never left.

She just got pushed to the side while I was trying to do a million other things.

So I’m doing it!

I created a few new pieces in January and got them accepted into a small community show in London next month 🥰

I’m prioritizing my art (as I put on my mood board)

I’m taking risks (pursuing what I want for myself)

I’m listening to the Universe (taking more creative projects in addition to my writing)

It’s a lot, it’s different, and it’s just one area of work that I’m putting my energy towards, but it’s fun and fulfilling.

Younger Lyndsee would be proud 👩🏻‍🎨

Photos:
1-Current Lyndsee; really proud/excited
2-One of the signs from the Universe (black ball cap saying “Working Artist”)
3-Other sign from the Universe (@inspiredtowrite’s Instagram post saying “What if you’re walking into the most creatively abundant year of your life?”)
4-Another message on my mood board from @inspiredtowrite

I was standing in front of a room full of people I’d just met.



We’d been doing introductions, so I told them I was a ghostwriter and content creator, then we went on about our business…



Three months later I got a message on LinkedIn from one of the people in that room.

She said a friend of hers had asked if they knew any ghostwriters and she “immediately thought of” me!

That referral turned into a paid project.

That project turned into the achieved goal of the client.

That connection turned into trust and possible future endeavors.

So, that’s the reminder: 𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙡 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙙𝙤.

You never know when it might result in:

- an introduction
- a referral
- an opportunity
- a friend

🙂

“Maybe you’re already doing it..”

This is what someone said to me a long time ago.

I’d been telling them about how I’d been in a car accident, junior year of high school. “I’ve been in a helicopter,” I said, “but I don’t remember it. Actually, I don’t remember four weeks of my life. They thought they were going to have to reteach me how to walk, talk, and feed myself.”

I wish I could remember who I was talking to (blame the brain injury), but I’ve also told the story many times.

It always makes me reminisce: “Thankfully they didn’t have to. I didn’t have to start all over. I think it’s because I was meant to do something great with my life.”

“Maybe you’re already doing it,” they said.

This week alone I have never felt that statement more.

𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘮𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘦 𝘐 𝘢𝘮 𝘢𝘭𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘥𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘵.

✨

Having an existential conversation with my Uber driver, broadening our understanding of human behavior in a 45-minute ride from the airport. A new forever friend.

Not shying away from my nurse telling me, “It’s a scary time for people who look like me. I pray for the safety of my children every day.” “I know,” I said, “I’m so sorry. I hope that there are more of us that see how wrong this is and would be willing to stand up for one another.” “There is,” he said. “There is more good than evil.”

Meeting Zenia, a coffee shop owner in Hackney, and her patrons, Peter and Clive, two elderly gentleman walking in arm and arm to have an afternoon tea. “That’s an attractive accent,” Peter said, “where are you from?”

Speaking with the ladies in a secondhand shop, talking about vintage clothes and the style from their younger years. Their eyes sparkling as they think back to those times.

✨

Maybe my friendliness, my willingness to speak with people and actually see them and listen to them, are making a difference.

Maybe that smile to a stranger while walking down the sidewalk makes a difference.

Maybe that “Aw thank you, you’re the best!” really does hit the chef in the heart when he sits my gorgeous (and very tasty) pizza down on my table and preemptively brings a takeaway box.

Maybe I am creating ripples.

Maybe I am setting a different model.

Maybe I am making a difference one encounter at a time.

I guess there’s a lot we could be doing with our time here. May we be leaving the world better than we found it.

♥️

Post inspired by Emily McMahon. There is always space for more positivity ✨

“What?! No. There’s no way you’re 37.”


“Well 36,” I said, “I don’t turn 37 until September.”

“I thought I was talking to someone my own age! The way you talk…” Liban, my 25-year-old Uber driver, who less than two years ago completed university, glanced over his shoulder, shocked.

We’d spent over an hour driving from Heathrow.

And in that time we’d had an extensive discussion on:

𝗧𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗹 (he an aspiring content creator who was building his brand documenting his trips and finding his voice)

𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘂𝗻𝗶 (what to put on a resume, how to leverage your degree even though you don’t want to work in that field, etc.)

𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆 (finding it, making time for it, building a career in a creative space)

𝗙𝗲𝗮𝗿 (the current state of the world, traveling alone, navigating new cultures and unwiring our brains of prejudices, stereotypes, and fear of the unknown)

𝗔𝗱𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗱 (how we were brought up versus how we choose to live for ourselves, creating our own models and being our own versions of adults)

It was the last one that actually struck me, though.

“Maybe I don’t seem my age because I am not the average model of an adult?” I asked him. A question I was exploring myself for the first time.

I don’t have children.
I’m not married, but I live with my partner.
I’m traveling abroad on a Wednesday, and not for work, for personal reasons.
I don’t work a 9-to-5, and I don’t spend my days in an office.

I think if you asked a group of people what constitutes the definition of “Adult,” we’d summon a lot of similar elements.

But I do not embody many of those qualities, and I’ve actively chosen a different version of adulthood, myself.

Because being a 'grown up' can look so many different ways. We all want and need different things in our lives. 

We're conditioned to follow a certain path and that certain milestones qualify our adulthood, but who says?

Like most things, there isn't only one way.

All in all, I’d say it was an insightful car ride.

A new friend, newfound perspectives, and an exciting path ahead of us.

Happy Friday the Thirteenth 🖤


Some may associate it with the scary movie
Some may think it a bad omen or superstitious

But to me…

Friday is my favorite day of the week
13 is my favorite number
And together they’re weird and wonderful ✨

And that is my wish for you!

May you have a day that surprises you in the best way

May you remember the *weird* qualities are just what makes someone or something unique

And to celebrate the strange, the unusual, and the beautiful…

Sometimes it’s all about perspective ✨



Photo by Oliver Mayhall | @oliver.mayhall on Instagram

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