We had the good fortune of connecting with Kristin Keffeler and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Kristin, other than deciding to work for yourself, what else do you think played a pivotal role in your story?
The willingness to seek and engage really good mentors and coaches. To reach out to people who are more successful than I am and who I admire and seek their advice. Being willing to be vulnerable enough to ask questions and listen to good advice has been a game-changer for me. That and then having the courage to continue to strive for higher goals than I knew I could currently achieve.

Can you give our readers an introduction to your business? Maybe you can share a bit about what you do and what sets you apart from others?
I am a thought leader and consultant at the forefront of a global shift in family wealth advising, dubbed Wealth 3.0. I guide affluent and enterprising families, rising gen, and the professionals who support them in embracing the positive power of accumulated wealth, aligning their vision with their impact.

As the founder of Illumination360 and the Chief Learning Officer with the Denver-based Johnson Financial Group, I specialize in human motivation and behavioral change, family dynamics, family governance, rising gen education and development, and intergenerational collaboration. Drawing upon my years of research and private practice advising and coaching the rising generation in affluent and enterprising families, I believe that members of the rising gen are uniquely positioned to create significant impact in the world and I use a lens of strengths to help them—and those who guide them—to ignite their potential.

I bring a multi-dimensional approach to my work. I earned an undergraduate degree human biology and chemistry, with an emphasis on human peak performance from the University of Denver. I also hold a Master of Science in Management with a concentration in Public Health from the University of Denver, and a Master of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. I lives in Boulder County, Colorado where I ride her bike, hug my daughters, laugh with her husband, and works side-by-side with my dog, Olive.

If you had a friend visiting you, what are some of the local spots you’d want to take them around to?
I love Boulder County and it’s vast amount of open space. I’d probably take a friend on a mountain biking adventure in Lyons, then drive over to Nederland for coffee and a treat, and then drop back down the canyon and make my way to Niwot, where we’d have an unforgettable dinner at the 1914 House.

Shoutout is all about shouting out others who you feel deserve additional recognition and exposure. Who would you like to shoutout?
As an entrepreneur, my dad and mom deserve a lot of credit for always encouraging me to test my limits and be willing to take risks. As an author, there is no doubt that my husband and daughters give the big credit. Every author I’ve ever talked to has told me that moving their spark of an idea into a finished narrative on the printed page took the effort, skill, love, and support of a small (or large) tribe of people. This has been my experience as well. The two people who who were most impacted by the all-consuming effort that bringing this book to life took—Mike and my youngest daughter, Clara, have my forever gratitude for all of the ways they let me off the hook for chores in the house and picked up the slack for everything I stopped doing. And to my older daughters and their husbands, who have spent countless dinners listening to me debrief my “good” writing days and my “bad” ones. Most of all, my whole family showed me you loved me by giving me the space to breathe life into this book. I am grateful.

Website: www.illumination360.com

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristin-keffeler-msm-mapp-245a21/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kristinkeffeler

Image Credits
Headshot image credit: Tanya Dueri

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