Jeanne Supin
Founder, CEO, Company Elder
For 30+ years Jeanne has inspired managers and leaders to leap into audacious goals and transformational change. Jeanne blends convention and disruption to inspire deep belonging, wellbeing, engagement, achievement, and expansion.
Jeanne’s always been fascinated with how we organize ourselves, from shifting friendships on the playground to how we conceptualize culture and laws to shape societies.
Jeanne’s perpetually driven to find the best ways we human beings can ensure:
Specifically, she’s spent her career doing two things:
- Inspiring positive change and
- Helping leaders, managers and supervisors find enthusiasm and success for themselves, their teams and their organizations or collectives.
Jeanne is a voracious student of management, leadership and change research and eclectic in practice. She values adaptive leadership, emergent strategy, trauma-informed organizations, resilience as a collective responsibility, deconstructing everything, strengthening democracy, welcoming everybody, and supervising folks so everyone actually loves their jobs.
At home in the Appalachian Mountains, Jeanne is passionately attached to family and friends. She’s into kayaking beneath the full moon, marching for collective wellbeing, hiking, yoga, and sipping really smooth bourbon. She has a master’s in political science, and will soon start another in marriage and family therapy. She’s also been a consultant with the National Council for Mental Wellbeing for decades, learning from the world’s leading experts on human behavior and healing. Mostly, in each moment – whether euphoric, tragic or somewhere in between – Jeanne commits to a spark of hope and joy.
Casey Girard
Chief of Making Things Happen
For 15+ years, Casey has partnered with leaders, executives, and organizations in North America, England and the Middle East to navigate complexity, strengthen relationships, and create experiences that move people to act. She brings a rare combination of precision, warmth, and strategic clarity—helping managers lead with both effectiveness and humanity.
Casey is fascinated by how people come together to build something meaningful—whether coordinating global stakeholders, shaping high-impact programs, or creating environments where individuals feel seen, valued, and motivated to contribute.
She is deeply driven by a core question:
How do we create workplaces where people don’t just function—but truly thrive? Her work centers around cultivating:
Across her career—from leading strategic partnerships and fundraising initiatives to managing large-scale events and cross-functional teams—Casey has done two things consistently:
- Translate vision into action
- Help people work better together
She has supported global executives, led stakeholder engagement across diverse communities, and built systems that turn complexity into clarity. Known for staying calm under pressure, she brings steadiness to fast-moving environments and helps leaders make thoughtful, aligned decisions. Her work draws on real-world experience, not theory, and is rooted in hospitality, humility, and a belief that how we work together matters.
Now based in Asheville, North Carolina, Casey is a mother, creative, and community builder. Whether she’s hosting, facilitating or DJ-ing, she is committed to creating spaces where people feel energized, connected, and inspired to grow.
Above all, Casey believes:
A good manager doesn’t just drive results—
they shape the experience of being human at work.