Jake Morrill
Jake Morrill works with leaders ready to establish greater ease and impact in their life and work. By promoting deeper conviction, connection, and calm in his clients, Jake helps leaders build strength and resilience in their work cultures and families.
Jake has coached and consulted with leaders across a wide range of sectors, including technology, accounting, finance, real estate, non-profit, telecommunications, manufacturing, education, law, and transportation. The common theme in all of them: the importance of relationships.
Since starting a neighborhood lawn-mowing business at age 11, Jake has observed the impact of relationships on work. In his twenties, in Cape Town, South Africa, he co-founded and led a multi-racial youth leadership training program for students from 27 schools.
Jake has led three non-profit organizations through periods of change. As a Chaplain (Captain) in the U.S. Army Reserve, he was recognized for meritorious leadership in the face of particularly complex circumstances. In 19 years as Lead Minister, Jake helped transform a fractured congregation into a lively, cohesive force for alleviating homelessness and bridging differences in the wider community. In 2016, the local NAACP gave him their “Community Spirit” award for his work in racial reconciliation.
Jake received a Master’s in Counseling, and is licensed as a Marital and Family Therapist in Tennessee. He’s on the Faculty of the Bowen Center for the Study of the Family (Washington, DC) and the Bowen Theory Education Center (Chattanooga, TN), teaching and coaching leaders in systems thinking. He also holds degrees from Harvard Divinity School and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop
Jake has presented widely and published five books. In April, 2022, Rockridge Press published his latest—on maintaining healthy boundaries, at work and at home. Anyone can subscribe to his weekly e-newsletter, “Tenacious Play,” at his website: www.jakemorrill.com.
Jake and his wife, Molly, love life in East Tennessee, raising two soccer-obsessed teens, and hiking in the Smoky Mountains.
Kay Sanford
Kay Sanford is an owner/ partner of multi-generational family businesses, with long experience in navigating the occasional rough waters where business and relationships collide. She serves as CEO for Hutcheson Properties, Inc. and sits on the board of SFSC, Inc. In 2008, the desire to lead through a consistent, coherent framework drew her to the serious study of Bowen Family Systems Theory. Her work in that area, over the years, has particularly focused on how relationship dynamics affect business functioning.
When coaching and consulting clients come to her with the deep questions of leadership in complex circumstances, she has not only often been there herself—she’s developed a practical way to think about these questions, which promote leading with greater calm and clarity.
Kay holds an MBA (Honors) from the University of South Carolina, Aiken; and also holds a degree from Rhodes College. She holds certificates from the Family Firm Institute in Family Business and Family Wealth Advising. (CFBA, CFWA) Her training in Bowen Family Systems Theory comes from study that includes work in the Post-Graduate Program at the Bowen Center for the Study of the Family (Georgetown, DC), with Navigating Systems and with the Family Firm Institute. She serves on the Faculty and Board of the Bowen Theory Education Center (Chattanooga).
Active in the community, Kay currently sits on the Boards of The Chattanooga Boys Choir, Mark Making, and Sumter Farms and Stock Co., Inc.
Promoting clarity as the heart of mindful leadership, Kay offers sessions in NeurOptimal Neurofeedback as a supplement to her coaching with leaders.