Leadership through radical self-inquiry. This is the driving idea behind the work of Jerry Colonna. For over two decades, he has been dedicated to the proposition that work should be non-violent to the self, non-violent to the community, and non-violent to the planet.

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Jerry is a coach, writer, and speaker who focuses on leadership, business, and the practice of radical self-inquiry. He is the Co-founder and CEO of Reboot.io, a company born from the rallying cry that work does not have to destroy us. Work can be the way in which we achieve our fullest self.

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A graduate of Queens College, Jerry helps people lead with humanity and equanimity. His unique blend of Buddhism, Jungian therapy, and entrepreneurial know-how has made him a sought-after coach and leader, working with some of the largest firms in the country.

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In his work as a coach, he draws on his experience in Venture Capital (VC) as Co-founder of Flatiron Partners, one of the most successful, early-stage investment programs. Later, he was a partner with J.P. Morgan Partners (JPMP), the private equity arm of J.P. Morgan Chase.

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As a partner with J.P. Morgan Chase, Jerry launched the Financial Recovery Fund with The Partnership for the City of New York, a $10 million-plus program aimed at creating grants for small businesses impacted by the attacks on the World Trade Center.

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Along with a strong commitment to the nonprofit sector, Jerry is the author of two books: REBOOT: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up (2019) and REUNION: Leadership and the Longing to Belong.

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Reboot was met with critical acclaim, stirring up a big question in the hearts and minds of people: “How have I been complicit in creating the conditions I say I don’t want?” Jerry’s second book builds on this question, asking us what benefit we get from the conditions we say we don’t want.

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Jerry is astounded by the fact that he lives on a farm outside of Boulder, CO near the foothills of the Rockies, and far from the streets of Brooklyn where he was born and raised. He is the father of three amazing humans, each of whom cares deeply about the love, safety, and belonging of others.

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Learn more: https://www.reboot.io/

After disrupting the hospitality industry twice, first as the founder of Joie de Vivre Hospitality, the second-largest operator of boutique hotels in the U.S., and then as Airbnb’s Head of Global Hospitality and Strategy, leading a worldwide revolution in travel, Chip Conley co-founded MEA (Modern Elder Academy) in January 2018.

 

Inspired by his experience of intergenerational mentoring as a ‘modern elder’ at Airbnb, where his guidance was instrumental to the company’s extraordinary transformation from a fast-growing start-up to the world’s most valuable hospitality brand, MEA is the world's first ‘midlife wisdom school.’ A New York Times bestselling author, Conley's 7th book “Learning to Love Midlife: 12 Reasons Why Life Gets Better with Age” is about rebranding midlife to help people understand the upside of this often-misunderstood life stage.

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Learn more: https://chipconley.com/

Kristen Heaney is a Wealth Legacy Coach and Consultant serving successful families and their advisors. Her passion for this work is colored by her own experience of being a young and unprepared inheritor after her father's early death. Kristen's training includes a Masters in Social Work from the University of Michigan, a Board Certified Coaching credential, and a certificate in Family Wealth Advising from the Family Firm Institute. 

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Born and raised in the Metro Detroit area, she currently lives with her husband and children in South Florida. In her free time, she can be found enjoying the outdoors, listening to an audio book, or with her husband cheering from the sidelines at their kids' sporting events.

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Learn more: https://www.inthreegenerations.com/

Danish is a Founding Partner of GreyMatter.
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Prior to GreyMatter, Danish founded Genoa Telepsychiatry (formerly 1DocWay), one of the first telepsychiatry companies in the country. After growing Genoa to become the largest telepsychiatry company in the country serving 250K patient visits per year, in 35 states, Genoa was acquired by Optum in 2018. After seeing the evolution of digital mental health at Optum, he decided to dedicate his next act in mental health to taking a systems level approach in improving the entrepreneurial journey for the next generation of founders.

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Danish is also a founder at Watershed Ventures, a venture capital firm that harnesses the power of entrepreneurs from non-traditional backgrounds to cause transformative change in industries that matter, including healthcare. Danish still serves on the Investment Committee at Watershed and has been personally investing and advising behavioral health startups since 2011.

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Danish started his career at Microsoft focused on Business Analytics and Optimization. He received a Bachelor of Science and Engineering, Computer information Sciences from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Danish grew up in Karachi, and considers both Karachi and New York home. His interests include cutting edge developments in mental health and therapeutics, ultimate frisbee and live music.

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Learn more: https://www.greymattercapital.com/

Matt McCall is the Founding Partner of FORGE Capital, Investment Chair at FMC/CCI (Crown Family venture arm), and was formerly a partner at Pritzker Group Venture Capital and a founding partner with DFJ Portage. He is the author of the popular blog SomethingVentured. Over his 28+ years in the business, he has backed over 80 companies, completed more than 500 financings and evaluated over 20,000 business plans. He has had over $80 billion in enterprise exit value. With 10+ years of leadership and performance coach training, he brings a unique human centric approach to investing around personal growth, high-performing cultures and sustainable entrepreneurial success. He is certified in an array of leadership and coaching programs.

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McCall has been involved with investments including DollarShaveClub (acquired by Unilever), Coinbase (IPO), Honest Company (IPO), Tock (acquired by SquareSpace), SMS-Assist (acquired by Lessen), P44, Facebook (IPO), Mapbox, Tovala, Feedburner (acquired by Google), PlutoTV (acquired by Viacom), Graphiq (acquired by Amazon), Lefthand Networks (acquired by HP), Performics (acquired by Doubleclick/Google), AwesomenessTV (acquired by DreamWorks), Playdom (acquired by Disney) and TicketsNow (acquired by Ticketmaster). McCall has taught courses and lectured on entrepreneurship at Kellogg, Booth/UoC, USC, UCLA, University of Denver, and CU Boulder. He has been honored on Crain’s annual "40 under 40”, Crain’s top Tech 25 list, the Re/code top 30 tech power list, a Top 100 VC, a Media 100 and a Hollywood 100 Power Player. He has keynoted or been a panelist at over 125 conferences and events nationwide.

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He is the founder and trustee of the McCall Family Foundation, focused on encouraging social entrepreneurship and global human/girls’s rights. He has served on numerous regional high technology advisory boards. Previously, McCall worked in the Boston Consulting Group’s Chicago office, where he managed consulting and client teams on projects in the retail, health-care and financial services industries. McCall holds a B.A. in Economics and History from Williams College and an MBA with honors from Northwestern University’s J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management. He also holds a Masters in Manufacturing Management from Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering.

Damayanti Dipayana launched Manatee in 2019 to make pediatric mental healthcare better through technology and a family approach.

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Manatee is a virtual mental health clinic. Its platform builds a personalized care plan for families, including self-guided courses, goals and a care team of licensed therapists, parent coaches and peers.

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Manatee has won the Prime Health Challenge, The Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Digital Health Lab and the HLTH startup pitch competition and is a Techstars portfolio company. Since its launch, Manatee has raised money from institutional investors like GreyMatter, Graph Ventures, Grand Ventures, Hopelab and Springtime and from corporate VCs like Bluecross Blueshield and American Family.

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Prior to Manatee, Dipayana founded Be Frank, an award-winning video production company that discusses tough and socially relevant topics — from sexual assault to systemic racism — and created content for large brands like Google and Planned Parenthood and has been covered in the HuffPost, Daily Mail, Upworthy and more.

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Prior to Be Frank, DiPayana joined Qubit, a software-as-a-service company built for e-commerce personalization that four ex-Google employees founded, as their first non-technical hire. She was tasked with running operations and building customer success and professional services. She scaled the company through a successful Series C ($76 million) led by Goldman Sachs and Sapphire Ventures, Accel Partners, Salesforce Ventures and Balderton Capital.

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During her tenure, she built a global, high-performing services team of 100 people that was 50% female and 50% ethnically diverse. She attained revenue targets (102% renewal rate) through the delivery of large enterprise contracts (up to $4 million) across 75 U.S. enterprise customers, including the Estee Lauder Group, Emirates, Staples, Lenovo, the NET-A-PORTER GROUP and others.

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Earlier in her career, Dipayana ran marketing at Validsoft, a fintech company that secures transactions through voice biometrics and multifactor authentication, and account management at Grapple Mobile, a London startup developing mobile and tablet app software and application programming interfaces.

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Dipayana was born in the Netherlands and earned her bachelor’s degree in international business and global banking from European Business School London, part of Regent’s University London.

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“Quitting my job and moving to the middle of the U.S. when I was pregnant with kid No. 2” was the biggest risk of Dipayana’s career, she said. “I took it because it was the only decision that felt true to myself AND because I have a super supportive partner — the right partners enable us to take risks and feel like the sky is the limit.”

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Learn more: https://www.getmanatee.com/

Scott serves as president of Chai Trust Company, LLC, the private trust company that serves as the family office for Sam Zell and his family. Equity Group Investments (EGI), a division of Chai Trust Company, LLC, provides investment management services on behalf of Chai Trust. Before joining Chai, Scott was a professor at the University of Colorado Law School for nearly 20 years.

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Scott serves on the boards of companies in which Chai Trust and the Zell family have significant interests, including Equity LifeStyle Properties, a leading REIT owner of manufactured housing and recreational vehicle properties, and Equity International Management, LLC, a private investment firm focused on building real estate businesses in emerging markets. He was also a director on the board of Anixter International Inc., a leading global provider of communications, security, and wire and cable products, which sold in 2020 for $4.5 billion.

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He has also been involved in entrepreneurial-related philanthropic activities supported by the Zell Family Foundation, including the Zell Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, the Zell Fellows Program at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, and the Zell Entrepreneurship Program at Reichman University in Israel. In addition, he writes about family enterprise and generational wealth.

 

Scott holds a JD degree from Harvard Law School, a master’s in finance from the University of Colorado Boulder – Leeds School of Business, and a BA from Cornell University.

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Learn more: https://scottpeppet.com/

As Managing Director leading Pathstone’s Wealth Planning Group, Jim Coutré focuses on developing, delivering, and refining the firm’s holistic wealth advisory and family office solutions. Leading a team of central professionals and collaborating throughout Pathstone’s national footprint, Jim works to create solutions to the technical and emotional complexity created by financial wealth.

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Jim has a wealth of experience within the industry as a catalyst for new thinking and a trusted thought partner to ultra-high-net-worth families and family office executives. Jim was previously the Vice President of Insights & Connections for Fidelity Family Office Services, a segment of Fidelity Institutional℠, where he delivered perspective and problem-solving across a wide range of family matters and office matters to families and family office executives. Through Fidelity, Jim facilitated multiple family office peer groups and created a high-impact peer cohort for rising generation inheritors to address the human impact of their family’s financial success.

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In addition to numerous speaking engagements on topics ranging from the future of family offices to ways to endure family heartache, Jim’s thought leadership includes his contributions to “Reshaping Reality: Unlocking the Potential of the Single Family Office,” Family Offices: A STEP Guide to Professional Advisors, and numerous article in publications including the International Family Office Journal, Trusts and Estates Magazine, and the Family Firm Institute Practitioner.

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Before joining Fidelity in 2014, Jim was a partner at The Philanthropic Initiative, where he served as a philanthropy advisor and was responsible for helping families and foundations increase the impact of their giving and training family office executives and professional advisors to help their clients set and achieve their philanthropic goals.

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Jim holds a Bachelor of Arts in economics from Washington University in St. Louis. He also holds the Advanced Certificate in Family Wealth Advising and the Advanced Certificate in Family Business Advising from the Family Firm Institute.

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Learn more: https://pathstone.com/team/jim-coutre/