OUR TEAM
The core team at Legacy Leaders is a dynamic fusion of expertise and innovation, committed to propelling our clients toward groundbreaking success with strategic foresight and unparalleled solutions.
Izabela Lundberg
CEO/CSO
Izabela Lundberg is the visionary founder and CEO of Legacy Leaders Institute. She is a distinguished C-Suite Executive Advisor and Strategist who collaborates with leaders from dynamic ranging from startups and Fortune 500 companies to top government agencies, developing bespoke solutions that address complex global challenges.
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Her strategic advisory and consulting solutions deliver insights into complex challenges, growth opportunities, and operational excellence. She leads transformative initiatives using AI momentum to bolster resilience, adaptability, and innovation in organizational change and the digital transformation phase, Evolution 3.0.
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Izabela is equipped to propel significant organizational transformations with a BA in Global Business Management, an MS in Leadership and Organization focused on Strategic Innovation and Change, and expertise in Organizational Development and Training. Her strategic insights are powered by her High-Performance Impact Method™, which integrates AI, data, and analytics to create sustainable change and adeptly tackles AI integration challenges within business strategies.
Her extensive international experience, including working closely with professionals from over 120 countries and traveling to over 75, underscores the global reach of her role as a top executive leadership strategic advisor and consultant.
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Her strategic advisory services offer profound insights into complex challenges, growth opportunities, and operational efficiencies. She spearheads leadership and organizational transformations that bolster resilience, adaptability, and innovation in organizational change and digital transformation, leveraging her global perspective to understand and address diverse business challenges.
Dedicated to cultivating champion cultures, Izabela aligns strategic initiatives with AI-driven solutions, focusing on talent as an organization's most vital asset. She also excels in cybersecurity and risk management, establishing robust frameworks to safeguard people, information and systems. Her leadership development and executive coaching programs also refine her skills for navigating complex global environments.
Izabela's professional achievements span a wide range of industries and demonstrate her versatility. She led a multinational through a strategic merger, increasing market share by 40%. Her optimization of international supply chain logistics resulted in a 28% cost reduction. She revamped risk management for a financial institution, significantly reducing risks and violations. Her corporate culture enhancement for a tech company led to a 75% increase in engagement and a 49.5% reduction in turnover. Her telehealth initiatives for a healthcare provider achieved over 90% patient satisfaction. These tangible results underscore her ability to deliver across diverse business contexts.
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As an accomplished author, speaker, and thought leader, Izabela is an Amazon #1 International Bestselling Author, a Forbes and Coaches Council Contributor, a Global Excellence Awards recipient, a Legacy Leadership subject matter expert, a polyglot, a keynote and TEDx speaker, and the host of a top 1% global podcast. She has also produced an award-winning feature film.
She also dedicates her expertise to Drive for Five, an educational agency focused on live organ donation, education, and reform, demonstrating her commitment to making a positive impact beyond the business world.
Dr. Jeremy B. Tucker
Chief Financial Officer
Jeremy Tucker, Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at Legacy Leaders Institute, brings a wealth of diverse experience to our organization. After serving three years in the US Army, Jeremy embarked on a multifaceted career in the insurance industry, starting as a records center clerk and advancing through finance, accounting, sales, marketing, and senior IT project management roles. His journey in the insurance sector was complemented by his work in personal tax preparation, which he started while still in the Army.
Jeremy's academic achievements reflect his entrepreneurial spirit and dedication to continuous learning. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with an emphasis on Sales and Marketing from the University of Phoenix, a Master of Business Administration with a focus on Computers and Information Technology from Webster University, a Master of Science in Accounting with an emphasis on Taxation, and a Doctor of Management with an emphasis on Quality Management.
Over the past few years, Jeremy has gained extensive experience across public, private, and non-profit sectors. His roles have spanned accounting, sales, marketing, advisory, and senior consulting positions. He also spent 12 years as an Adjunct Professor, teaching courses in Small Business Management, International Business, Statistics, and Organizational Development. His dissertation focused on employee involvement in change and job satisfaction.
Jeremy's professional background includes over 30 years of experience in accounting, auditing, income tax preparation, and insurance product sales. He has over 20 years of experience as a Senior Project Manager, leading complex and effective projects using Waterfall and Agile methodologies. He possesses project management, team leadership, and information technology skills, managing budgets up to $50 million.
Jeremy is passionate about helping small business owners launch and grow their enterprises. His expertise includes strategic business planning, Six Sigma methodologies (Black Belt), non-profit program management, contract development and negotiations, financial planning, payroll, strategic planning, budgeting and cost reduction, process redesign and change management, software implementation, team building and leadership, sales and marketing, statistical reporting and analysis, tax preparation, and accounting.
Jeremy enjoys spending time with his wife, children, and grandchildren outside his professional life. He is an avid golfer and bowler and occasionally plays musical instruments, including the Tenor and Alto Saxophones. Jeremy Tucker's multifaceted expertise and dedication to client-focused service make him an invaluable asset to Legacy Leaders Institute. His commitment to excellence and passion for small business success aligns perfectly with our mission.
LaRae Quy
Chief Learning Officer
LaRae Quy is a retired FBI agent with 24 years of experience working as an investigator. The majority of her career focused on counter-espionage, investigating foreign spies who came into the country to steal classified secrets from the U.S. government and proprietary technology from American companies. As an FBI agent, she developed the mental toughness to survive in environments of risk, uncertainty, and deception. Faced with stressful and fast-moving situations, she needed to move through barriers if she was to succeed.
She worked numerous cases as an undercover agent to infiltrate foreign spy rings operating in Silicon Valley. Her targets included foreign officials with diplomatic immunity assigned to their official consulate in the United States. Her other targets were undercover spies who overtly operated with the cover of an individual with business interests in the U.S. while covertly inveigling their way into the high-tech industry.
In this capacity, she learned how to read people’s verbal and non-verbal cues to determine their level of honesty. Often, the key to recruiting a foreign spy was to differentiate when they were lying to her to protect their cover, or to themselves because of their lack of self-awareness. As a perpetual learner, LaRae studied various personality assessments to enable her to identify strengths and weaknesses in her targets. She then utilized this information to construct specific approaches to the diverse group of targets she persuaded to work for the FBI.
LaRae spent the last four years of her career as the FBI spokesperson in Northern California. In this role, she worked with local, national, and international news organizations covering FBI-related stories. Her career was profiled by ABC News and she has been interviewed by the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Good Morning America, NPR, The Washington Post, Al Jazeera, and other news outlets.
She was born and raised on a remote cattle ranch in Wyoming where she learned from a young age that she needed to look inward to find the courage and resilience to confront challenges head-on. After retirement, she took graduate studies at San Francisco Theological Seminary and received a diploma in Spiritual Direction. She combined her experience in recruiting foreign spies with graduate studies in Persuasion Theory at Arizona State University (ASU) to develop the Mental Toughness Assessment, a questionnaire that has been validated by ASU’s clinical psychology department and taken by over 50,000 professionals to help them better assess their mental toughness.
In 2021 she founded the Mental Toughness Center and worked as a C-level leadership coach. She has been a keynote speaker in finance, energy, and health sectors—all industries going through immense changes. She worked first-hand with people who need resilience to overcome obstacles and embrace change. Based on her experiences, she produced an online training program called Secrets of A Strong Mind which taps into her background, training, and work with people at all leadership levels.
She has written two books. "Secrets of A Strong Mind: How To Build Inner Strength to Overcome Life’s Obstacles." The book offers field-tested methods for readers to develop mental toughness and a curated package of tools and techniques to help them realize they are capable of far more than they believe possible. The second book is "Mental Toughness for Women Leaders: 52 Tips To Recognize and Utilize Your Greatest Strengths." The book shows how mentally strong women manage in ways that set them up for success in life.
She is a Forbes Business Council writer and is a top contributor to Smartbrief, an online leadership magazine. She has also contributed articles to inc.com and The World Economic Forum.