Sonja Weissenbacher is a CPA, Family Enterprise Advisor, organizational coach, and co-founder of Edendale Business Consultants, supporting business families and owner-led enterprises through generational transitions in leadership and ownership.
Her work centers on moments of meaningful change; when leadership, identity, relationships, and governance converge, and when flourishing requires not just sound decisions, but care, understanding, and deeply human connection.
Grounded in both professional training and lived experience as an engaged member of an enterprising family, Sonja works alongside founders, next-generation leaders, boards, and executive teams to support succession, leadership development, governance, and long-term stewardship. As an independent advisor, she creates space for the conversations that are often hardest to have; helping families and leadership teams build trust, clarity, and shared purpose.
Sonja’s approach is systems-based, human-centred, and neurodiversity-informed. She pays close attention to different thinking styles, emotional experiences, and family roles, and to how these differences shape communication, power dynamics, and collaboration; especially during times of uncertainty or change. Her work emphasizes strengths, patterns, and relational dynamics within complex systems; cultivating wisdom, empathy, discernment, and the capacity to stay connected through ambiguity while sustaining wellbeing across generations.
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Will Hughes is a Resource Director and Discovery Experience Guide with Family Tapestry, LLC, an organization dedicated to helping individuals and families cultivate self-awareness to deepen understanding and strengthen connections within and across generations. He also maintains an independent mental health practice focused on adolescents and young adults experiencing ADHD,ASD, anxiety, depression, substance use disorders, and co-occurring diagnoses.
Will’s clinical counseling approach frequently incorporates nature-based experiences, such as mushroom foraging, fishing, hiking, and bird-call identification—to enhance skills training and symptom management. These experiential practices support regulation, curiosity, and embodied learning, particularly for neurodivergent clients. He completed additional training in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Drug Screen Analysis and Intoxication Detection, Emergency Response and Duty-To-Warn Law Compliance, Multicultural Counseling Competency, Family Systems Analysis, Equine Therapy for Neurodiverse Individuals, in addition to Drumming, Play, and Wilderness Therapy.
When serving as a guide for Family Tapestry’s Discovery Experience, Will helps clients leverage deeper self-understanding to approach differences within themselves and others from a posture of curiosity rather than judgment. His work is informed by more than a decade of experience guiding and mentoring individuals toward greater self-awareness and self-actualization.
Laura Jennings is both Learning Director, and Discovery Experience Guide with Family Tapestry LLC., an organization dedicated to helping individuals and families cultivate self-awareness to help deepen understanding and strengthen connections within and across generations.
As a Master of Education, Laura has served in the adolescent and adult education lane for over twenty five years. She has been an academic instructor for a variety of life and inorganic sciences bringing real world application of these topics to her clients. Laura was an instructor of a popular applied biology and human dynamics course at numerous metro-Detroit area venues. Laura has been a keynote speaker for pre marriage and parenting seminars, sharing her knowledge of biological applications to human dynamics inside of relationships. Laura authored and facilitated leadership programs for preteen and adolescent girls offering improved self-actualization through self-awareness, education, and metacognition exercises.
Laura brings decades of experience to the human development space as she assists young and seasoned adults through a process called the Discovery Experience. Through guided reflection, structured assessment, and meaningful discussion; individuals take a comprehensive look at their unique traits, motivations, and patterns. From there, they develop a personalized action plan designed to improve the strategies they use to navigate life.
Her expertise with Neurodiversity was developed experientially over her years as an educator, and by successfully guiding diversely-abled young adults through their Discovery Experience. She recognized the need for a Process Advocate role within Family Tapestry and created it. It serves as a model for other organizations seeking to effectively adapt for their diversely abled employees and clients.
