A practice built on experience — and a team with real depth.
Eden Business Concepts has helped leaders build healthy, scalable companies since 1991. We pair an engineer's systems with a counselor's depth — and bring a wider network of partners to the problems that need them.
The firm
We're led by two practitioners with thirty-five years of shared work — together since 1991 — across business, the academy, and the boardroom. What makes the work unusual is the combination: operational rigor and human depth, from the same team — the discipline to scale a company and the wisdom to grow the people leading it. For any given engagement, we draw on a wider bench of advisors, facilitators, and operating partners, matched to the problem in front of us. The result is a firm with the range of a much larger one and the judgment of people who have done the work themselves.
What drives us
We exist to see an ongoing flow of cross-generation leaders who create life-giving workplaces — through an awareness of their own hearts, and the hearts of the people they lead. We believe you will either flounder or flourish based on how well you know your own heart: who you are, what drives you, why you make the decisions you do, and why you respond to people and situations the way you do.
Our work is informed by a conviction that leadership is, at root, a matter of the heart. That conviction runs through our books and shapes how we advise — and we serve leaders of every background, faith or none.
John D. Erickson, DMin
Systems · Scaling · Strategy. A Purdue-trained engineer whose career carried him through the Navy and the State Department before three decades in leadership development. John builds the operating systems, leads the scaling work, chairs peer advisory forums for owners and CEOs, and serves as doctoral faculty at Trinity International University in Chicago. He is the author of multiple books on leadership and growth. He and his wife, Debbie, live in Lafayette, Indiana. They have two adult children and three grandchildren.
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Dennis R. Humphrey, PhD
Formation · Conflict · Depth. A Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) in Illinois and Wisconsin, with thirty years across consulting, higher education, and behavioral health. Dennis forms leaders, restores teams, and guides his own peer advisory forums, bringing a clinician's understanding of what actually moves people. He and his wife, Heather, have four adult children and two grandchildren.
LinkedIn ↗Together they co-author and co-teach, including Leading Through Conflict and doctoral coursework on conflict and leadership. Both are also certified conflict mediators through Live at Peace.
Advisors
For specific engagements, we bring in advisors with particular depth in their field.
Heather L. Humphrey
Strategy · Change · Communications. Heather Humphrey has spent more than thirty years helping leaders turn big ideas into real results — most recently as Director of Communications, Change & Culture at AbbVie, where she built a high-impact communications function inside one of healthcare's largest organizations and led teams through complex change. She starts where the work starts, with purpose, then builds the strategy, structure, and systems that move it forward and keep it moving. As a strategic advisor to Eden, she brings sound judgment, creative thinking, and the discipline to finish the parts most people skip.
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