Changemakers supporting changemakers.
What if you could gather the ultimate dream team of business development, marketing, communications pros to elevate your business? Our crew is united in purpose to grow good and generate positive impact in the world. Meet the Kindship Group! We’re ready to join forces with your team and work together to advance your business.
Our Leadership Team
Jamie Lamonde
Founder + CEO
Jamie has spent her entire career immersed in the world of organic and sustainable brands. Jamie was a member of Organic Valley/CROPP Cooperative’s marketing team for 11 years, contributing to annual sales growth from $156 million to $930 million. In 2010, she founded Edible Madison, a magazine celebrating the abundance of local foods in Southern Wisconsin, which she published for 10 years before selling to Madison-based Forager Publishing. Jamie founded Kindship Group in 2020, merging her passion for helping mission-driven, organic and sustainable businesses with the passions of other amazing people she's collaborated with throughout her career. Jamie is dedicated to helping socially conscious brands, organizations and entrepreneurs succeed in order to transform our culture for the better.
Gage Mitchell
Creative Director
Gage sees everything as a design challenge. Whether it's designing new business strategies, designing to solve community problems, or designing your life to be more fulfilling. When on a long overseas trip, he saw wonderful people and beautiful countries mired in a sea of western trash…much of which had been designed by someone like him. This became his inspiration for his next challenge – to design a better world by building a responsible design studio that works with mission-driven brands and spreads sustainable design knowledge. When Gage isn’t trying to save the world with design, he’s probably sipping delicious craft beer or experimenting in the kitchen.
Molly Gaines
Strategic Communications
& Engagement Director
Molly is wildly passionate about helping things flourish and grow: flowers, veggies, honey bees and mission-based businesses. For 25 years, she's worked in PR and marketing communications at companies ranging from Fortune 500 and small tech companies to agencies and nonprofits. She loves creating captivating, consistent stories and messaging to engage, inspire and uplift.
Jim Klousia
Strategic Development Director
Jim Klousia has over a decade of CPG experience and has helped bring hundreds of products successfully to market. He specializes in go-to-market strategy development, including competitive landscape analysis, market positioning and pricing and trade strategies. A Wisconsin native, he loves spending time adventuring on water and land, supporting the local and organic food system, and capturing life in Southern Wisconsin through photography. Jim holds a Communication and Journalism degree from the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire and has completed executive development programs at both UW-Madison and Chicago Booth.
Matt D’Amour
Team Alignment Director
Matt is an experienced and dynamic business coach with a 25-year background in entrepreneurship, highlighted by the successful establishment of three health and wellness-focused start-ups. His comprehensive expertise across diverse sectors of business distinguishes him as a seasoned and multifaceted coach and facilitator. With firsthand involvement in branding, marketing, sales, finance, operations, and research and development, Matt possesses an unparalleled understanding of the intricacies of business dynamics.
Furthermore, Matt's coaching philosophy is deeply rooted in his profound comprehension of holistic health and wellness. Recognizing the interconnectedness of physical, mental, and spiritual well-being, he integrates these principles into his coaching methodology, fostering a comprehensive approach to personal and professional development.
Linwood Paul
Human Dynamics Director
Linwood is a masterful facilitator of programs which result in remarkable upgrades in organizational team dynamics. His zone of genius is in delivering highly interactive “experience-based” learning programs, which are cleverly disarming for resistant participants, and makes enhancing personal and team dynamics an engaging and fun process. After a session, clients often remark …“We are having conversations we’ve never had before, about the things we have always needed to talk about!”
Linwood is a credentialed, International Coaching Federation Executive Coach, and loves the range of experiences that work brings about. From The U.S. Federal Reserve S.W.A.T. Team now including a woman, to the coaching and organizational teams of the NBA Dallas Mavericks, to working on the relationships of celebrity couples on an Oprah Winfrey Network television program, the constant focus is on how the human dynamics drive every outcome and generate all possibilities.
We’d love to hear your vision for growing good.
Contact us today for a free consultation.
