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Maybe we understand family business and setting healthy boundaries to help foster growth because some of us are family and those who aren’t operate as part of a family!
A native of southeastern Pennsylvania, Jay McCumber has a passion for developing healthy cultures of leadership by working with leaders and within leadership systems. The Emporia Group offers coaching and consulting to businesses and non-profit groups through assessment, analysis, engagement, formation, and development of healthy leaders and leadership cultures. We specialize in equipping and empowering leaders and organizations who exist for the prosperity of their organization in order to create better cultures in their world.
As President and Lead Consultant, Jay’s work is primarily with executive and senior management teams, coaching business leaders with strong emphasis on conflict mediation, core change processes, organizational health and strategic planning. Jay specializes in serving family businesses and their leadership teams by strengthening the family as a family, serving the consultative needs of the enterprise, and building strategic paths and spaces for the two to healthily interface.
Jay lives in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, with Sheri, his wife of 22 years, and children: Trey, Christy, and Ben. A lover of books, sports and music, Jay most enjoys working outdoors, adventures, and travel with his family.
With education, training, and experience in pastoral counseling, healthy family systems, and deep listening, Sheri serves as coach and advisor to the family business systems served by The Emporia Group. She primarily accomplishes this by shepherding and counseling the core of the family business: the family itself.
TEG’s approach to healthy family business systems is built on the foundation of relational, honoring, inter-generational connections among the family itself. Sheri serves in coaching and discernment toward individual persons in the family, singular family units, or the generational family segment as a whole.
Intentionality is the name of the game as it regards Sheri’s work. Healthy families are composed of healthy individuals and health in either of those dimensions does not just happen. Sheri works with persons and/or relationships within the family system who:
– desire to go deeper personally
– require spiritual guidance
– need assistance navigating conflict
– can use help with healthy process of individuation
– are facing challenging parenting situations
Sheri was born and raised in southeastern Pennsylvania, has been married to Jay for 23 years, and is mom to Trey (age 20), Christy (age 18), and Ben (age 17). She enjoys traveling adventures with her family, reading a good book, a glass of wine with a good friend, and communing with her plants.
In his work at the Emporia Group as Leader Development Partner, Delbert Beiler is passionate about the growth and development of next-generation leaders and the healthy formation of the teams in which they serve. Through his patient yet persistent approach, leaders, teams, and organizations encounter peace, agreement, and transformative decisions.
Delbert utilizes his education, training, and 25 years of blue-collar leadership experience in service industry and retail settings. He walks alongside leaders and teams bringing practical ideation and wisdom that supports organizational growth, diversification, and culture change. He also emphasizes strengthened corporate communication; HR best practices; and career counseling; and job fit counseling for current and prospective employees.
In keeping with the rest of the TEG team, Delbert was born and raised in southeastern Pennsylvania. He and his wife Kristi have been married since 1993, live in the bustling college town of Millersville, PA, and have two young adult children, Bri and Brett. Delbert enjoys running, camping, and stimulating conversation around community, work, and what it means to be a culture maker in this historical moment!
We are honored to work with inter-generational leaders:
Kelly Benefits Strategies
“Jay McCumber and The Emporia Group have provided immense value to Kelly Benefits and the Kelly family for many years. Working together with your family to lead a business that endeavors to serve our clients with excellence and integrity, while honoring God in our relationships and reflecting the Kingdom in our work, is not an easy task. It requires a willingness to attend to the things that matter most. Jay, Sheri, and the Emporia Group are uniquely gifted at helping us discern these things, and courageous enough to ensure we attend to them. The Emporia Group is more than a strategic business consultant they are a vital partner.”
– John Kelly, President/Kelly Benefits Strategies
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