PULSE Podcast Series | Episode 09

A conversation with Kristi Daeda, the president of one of the leading private family office consulting firms in the world, Family Business Consulting Group, founded in 1994.

This episode features an engaging dialogue with one of the leading practitioners in family enterprises, Kristi Daeda. Kristi is President of FCBG, a leading private consultant for some of the world's most sophisticated clients. Kristi is involved in family and corporate governance, family enterprise education, and knowledge development and research on family enterprise topics. Prior, Kristi held management roles in e-commerce, insurance, and hospitality, with a focus on leadership and people development, and as an independent consultant and coach to senior executives. Kristi is a member of the Family Firm Institute where she’s contributed to their publication, The Practitioner, and has served on steering committees for the Family Wealth Alliance and the Private Directors Association national board.

The Wisdom Board PULSE podcast series is a new collection of personal conversations with leading industry leaders, owners, founders, and boards. PULSE delivers enlightening insights from industry veterans’ own leadership journeys. PULSE guests are entrepreneurs, founders, owners, CEOs, Chairmen, philanthropists, as well as investors from private equity, venture, family offices, and institutions.

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Kristi Daeda

Kristi is the president of The Family Business Consulting Group, overseeing firm strategy as well as the platform which supports the firm’s clients and consultants. Her past roles within FBCG included leadership in a variety of practice areas, such as family and corporate governance, family enterprise education, and knowledge development and research on family enterprise topics. Prior to her work in the family business field, Kristi held management roles in e-commerce, insurance and hospitality, with a focus on leadership and people development. She also served as an independent consultant and coach to senior executives. 

Kristi is a member of the Family Firm Institute where she’s contributed to their publication, The Practitioner, and has served on steering committees for the Family Wealth Alliance and the Private Directors Association national board.

Kristi’s articles have appeared in Crain’s Chicago Business and Family Business Magazine, and she’s been a contributing author to two books: Launchpad, a guide to building a successful career, and Lenses of Leadership: A Call to Action. Today she remains a frequent speaker and writer on the themes of family business, governance, leadership and strategy.

Kristi holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Roosevelt University and a master’s degree in learning and organizational change at Northwestern University.

In addition to her professional activities, Kristi is involved with her local school and an organization that provides pro-bono strategic consulting to nonprofit organizations. An amateur painter and avid home cook, she lives with her husband, two children and dog in the suburbs of Chicago.