About Us
Joan DiFuria, MFT
Joan DiFuria, Co-Founder of MMCI, is a globally recognized speaker and consultant for families of wealth, family businesses, family offices, and enterprises. She helps clients attain successful and lasting impact on their lives, their families and their businesses. Ms. DiFuria has co-developed and led numerous training programs on the psychology of wealth and life planning for financial and philanthropic professionals.
Bringing together expertise in business and psychology, she focuses on issues associated with wealth, such as the impact of money on children, succession planning, governance, legacy and the challenges of multigenerational family communication. Ms. DiFuria combines a unique and proven expertise in business and psychology to provide high-level leadership development to senior level executives and executive teams in Fortune 500 companies. Ms. DiFuria completed the Harvard Business School Program for Management Development and has 18 years of industry experience as national marketing director and director of long-term strategic operations for the worldā€™s largest multinational metals distribution corporation. After her success in industry, she become a licensed psychotherapist and has been in private practice for over 25 years. MMCI is the amalgam and outgrowth of her experience, capabilities, and interests.
Joan is known throughout the industry as a person who is truly passionate about her work, enjoys talking to people, empowering women, and helping family businesses thrive.
Stephen Goldbart, Ph.D.
Co-Founder of MMCI, with over 40 years of professional experience, Stephen Goldbart is a licensed clinical psychologist, professor, author, public speaker, and organizational consultant. His professional interests focus on the opportunities and challenges of wealth, including the psychology of life transitions, adult development, depth psychotherapy, neuroscience, strategic and succession planning. Dr Goldbart has a passion for working with complex family/ organizational systems, helping to clarify purpose and establish structured procedures to find solution pathways. He has consulted with individuals, families, family offices, and organizations to help develop the fulfilling and sustainable balance of personal, professional, and philanthropic goals. He has co-developed and led training programs for financial and philanthropic professionals. As a senior-level consulting psychologist, he has been teaching seminars and workshops for over 30 years for both practicing therapists and clients.Ā
Dr. Goldbart is co-author of Mapping the Terrain of the Heart: Passion, Tenderness, and the Capacity to Love, and Affluence Intelligence (Da Capo/Perseus 2012), as well as articles in both professional and mainstream publications. Along with Joan DiFuria, articles on issues of money and meaning can be found on their Affluence Intelligence blog at Psychology Today. (www.psychologytoday.com/blog/affluence-intelligence).
Appearing publicly before audiences, including national radio and television, philanthropic organizations, and professional associations, he has covered topics that have included issues such as: having successful multigenerational family meetings, the emotional issues of wealth and inheritance, raising children in affluent families, effective philanthropy from the inside out, and strategic life planning.Ā
Emily Bouchard
Emily Bouchard, MSSW, CMC, CAP, has 20 years of experience as a family and governance advisor, coach, consultant, speaker and author. She is on a mission to empower clients to successfully navigate the non-financial issues that accompany having significant wealth and multiple assets. She guides affluent and enterprising families, rising gen members, and the professionals who support them.
Emily understands the unique challenges families experience when it comes to love and money. She assists families in taking complex situations and making them less daunting. She specializes in blended family dynamics, multi-generational family meetings, rising generation leadership and education, family enterprise decision-making (aka governance), and family business succession. Emily draws upon her life experience as the granddaughter of immigrants who started with nothing; a step-granddaughter, step-daughter, step-mother and step-grandmother; her years of research and writing, her work at two Fortune 500 financial companies, and her private practice consulting and coaching. Emily is inspired to work with families who value the priceless aspects of life ā€“ how to communicate about what matters most before it is too late; how to cultivate enduring trust; and how to prepare family members to be empowered, competent leaders in their lives and in their roles within the family.
Along with her professional and personal experiences, Emily brings a varied educational background to her work. She earned a B.A with honors from the University of Pennsylvania in Child Development and holds a Master of Science in Social Work from the University of Texas at Arlington with a focus on marital and family therapy. She is also a trained Equine Assisted Growth and Learning facilitator; a Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy; and a Certified Money Coach for Individuals, Couples, and Business Owners.
