Justin Ricklefs

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About Justin Ricklefs

Founder and CEO of Guild Collective, a KC-based storytelling and strategy agency who works with brands brave enough to share their heart. Helping leaders discover and share their true voice. Doing my best to live a good life. Husband to Brooke for 22 years. Dad to Kamden, Addi, Rowan, Silas, and Henley. Quit the best job in Kansas City (worked in Chiefs front office) to take a swing at building a business. At Guild Collective, we are telling stories of brands who are brave enough to share their heart. Because in the truth of a strategic brand story, organizations with clarity have the power to do loads of good. Those stories begin with leaders who are self-aware, connected to their team's culture, and courageous enough to lead from their heart, and do the work of connecting to the hearts of the humans on their path. Knowing that profit is a good and natural outcome of a human-first brand. I don't niche anything down here, rather I open myself up to share my experiences, perspectives, ideas, longings, failures, and lessons along the journey in life, business, and relationships.