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 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.
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. He is the author of multiple books on leadership and growth. He and his wife, Debbie, married in 1982; they have two grown children and three grandchildren.
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Dennis R. Humphrey, PhD
Formation · Conflict · Depth. A licensed clinical counselor 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 has been married for thirty-six years and has four grown children and two grandchildren.
LinkedIn ↗Together they co-author and co-teach, including Leading Through Conflict and doctoral coursework on conflict and leadership.