I envision empowering business owners to design business exits that transform both their business value and life trajectory,
using Maslow's hierarchy of needs to rebuild their foundation for
self-actualization beyond business identity
Most life and business transitions are planned around what is ending. Very few are designed around what must carry people afterward.
I speak to what happens before, during, and after major transitions, when a business, career, or long-held responsibility is no longer meant to organize daily life.
Rather than treating transitions as moments, these talks treat them as systems. Systems that either hold under change or quietly strain, depending on how they were built.
Grounded in systems thinking and human behavior, the work applies Maslow’s hierarchy as an operational model for transition. It shows how security, belonging, identity, and contribution reorganize once a business, role, or position is no longer the primary container for life.
These keynotes speak to moments when work, roles, or authority can no longer carry safety or identity. They meet business owners, retirees, and women leaders at the same crossroads: structure changes faster than meaning. When roles have overlapped for years, continuity does not happen on its own. It has to be designed before the transition, not after.
These are not talks about exits. They are talks about continuity. Delivered in under an hour, audiences leave with language for what they have felt but could not name, and a clear orientation for what must be designed next, while choice still exists.

To move this work from theory into practice, Business 2 Eternity operates as an integrated ecosystem. Each part addresses a different point in the transition cycle, and each is designed to function under real-world timing, pressure, and constraint.
Together, they ensure continuity is not only understood, but supported structurally across business, wealth, and life-stage transitions.
A coaching institute focused on readiness and identity continuity
A real estate and business brokerage operating inside timing constraints
A nonprofit dedicated to education around Mature Living Transitions
She has this amazing way of helping founders realize they're so much more than what they've built, and then actually shows them how to step into that power in their next chapter. It's not just about selling your business with her - it's about (re)discovering who you are and what you're meant to do next
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Kate K., Business Development Director, Job Corps
My work sits at the intersection of business, identity, and continuity.
That focus was not theoretical. It emerged through lived transition.
I began my career as an MIT graduate in Geophysics, followed by work at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in earthquake modeling and spacecraft experiment design. The work was technical, rigorous, and linear… until it was not. A traumatic brain injury reshaped how I processed information and how I understood systems, identity, and resilience long before those words entered my professional vocabulary.
Years later, I lost my technology business during 9/11. That moment forced a second transition, this time out of ownership and into uncertainty. I moved into real estate and business brokerage, working across residential properties for seniors, commercial real estate, and business sales. Over time, a pattern became impossible to ignore.
Transitions strain not because numbers fail, but because identity, financial structure, and meaning were never designed to carry what comes next.
I watched strong businesses exit cleanly while owners struggled afterward. I watched capable leaders lose direction when roles dissolved faster than purpose could reorganize. I watched families face mature-living decisions with no preparation, no structure, and no shared language. Different stages. Same breakdown.
That insight led me to create Business 2 Eternity, a unified framework integrating a coaching institute, a real estate and business brokerage, and a nonprofit focused on mature living transitions. Together, they address what happens before, during, and after major life and business transitions… not just the transaction itself.
At the core of my work is continuity. What happens when a business, career, or long-held role is no longer meant to organize daily life. Grounded in systems thinking and human behavior, I apply Maslow’s hierarchy as an operational model for transition, showing how security, identity, and contribution reorganize when structure changes.
A growing focus of my work is women founders and leaders. For many women, identity was never singular. Founder. Leader. Caregiver. Partner. Steward. When roles have always overlapped, transition must be designed differently, alongside financial and operational readiness, not after.
My path has crossed science, entrepreneurship, brokerage, coaching, and nonprofit leadership. What unifies it is not industry, but design… designing systems that hold when timing intervenes, roles dissolve, and life asks for what comes next.
• Mother of 4 grown children, incl twins; grandmother to 3
• Passionate about sustainable living, organic farming, animal husbandry (have chickens and Nubian goats)
• Managed a herd of up to 20 goats with 6 milking every 12 hours. Made 2 lbs of cheese a day!
• Artisan cheesemaker: hard and soft goat cheese varieties
• Artisan bread maker
• Maintain organic gardens
• Play violin
• Cook and give classes on Caribbean, Spaniard/ Basque, Italian foods
• ...and more!

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