Our Guiding Principles
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It goes without saying that sound business judgment is foundational for leaders to be successful. It’s what’s most often talked about and considered when hiring or evaluating potential leaders. Part of business decision-making is left-brain driven and requires proactively seeking out and analyzing objective data.
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It’s no surprise that the greatest leaders of the most successful companies of all time have all been very passionate about what they do. Inspirational leaders are obsessed with a sense of purpose. Being a great leader means driving yourself and your people with passion, purpose and leading with the heart.
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Executing a prescribed set of actions used to be enough to generate short-term bottom-line improvements. In this new era, when the future is unclear and the present is constantly changing, leaders to innovate as they execute, and do both with agility. Some of the most successful leaders aren't afraid to roll up their sleeves and get into the work with their team.
Who we are
Founder, Lindsay Schneider
A transformational leader who has built a reputation for successfully building and scaling organizations across multiple industries, global companies, and start-up ventures.
Her accomplishments have been acknowledged by being a CEO of one of Canada’s fastest growing Digital Marketing Agency that was recognized as the Branham 300 Top 250 list, Deloitte's Technology Fast 50, and Fast 500 in North America.
Lindsay’s experience across M&A transactions has resulted in her ability to extract additional value by serving in key roles throughout the due diligence process. Her deep understanding of talent and technology illuminates the importance of post-merger integrations. Lindsay has the ability to envision integration roadmaps and identify the talent to drive accountability throughout execution.
As a strategic advisor and executive coach her passion resides in the integration of people and purpose and informed by her experience that a business is successful when the people are at the core of how it operates. Lindsay's approach demonstrates how leadership can elevate an organization, create a meaningful culture and employee experience, generate increased revenue, and leave a legacy for the people and business community.
She serves on the Board of Directors of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO) and is an advisor to start-up companies who are specifically needing support with people and operations. She also holds the designation of Certified Human Resources Leader and is an Executive Leadership Development Facilitator.
Managing Director, Stacey Kulongowski
Stacey Kulongowski is Founder & CEO of The BND Group. She is an ACC Certified Executive Coach and graduate of The Hudson Institute of Coaching and Michigan State University. She has 25 years of experience in building, leading and coaching high performing leaders and teams.
She is specifically passionate about empowering leaders to navigate challenging career intersections and realizing levels of success they never thought possible. In addition to 1:1 coaching for leaders and emerging leaders, Stacey is an expert in facilitating 360 reviews and group coaching sessions for clients. She also creates customized DEI, leadership and coaching programs to help her clients navigate tumultuous seasons and come out the other side finding their sun!
She is former Director at Google where she built, trained and led large high performing sales teams for 13 years. During this journey, she gained deep experience leading global Women and Diversity initiatives, deploying large scale sales enablement development training, and coaching across all levels.
Prior to working at Google, Stacey navigated an incredibly successful career in advertising spanning across 15 years, 12 cities, and a diversification of teams, clients and industries.
The common thread through all this experience is her expertise in building others up through coaching so that they can live fully in the best version of themselves.
Stacey is a keynote speaker, writer, personal development fanatic, mama of 3 fearless females and is dedicated to sharing her learnings to lift others up on their journey.