Stacey A Divers-Turner
Stacey Divers-Turner is a Career Ownership Coach, business steward, and former insurance executive who spent 36 years leading at the VP level across corporate America before making the courageous decision to step away and build a business aligned with her own purpose and values. Throughout her corporate career, she managed multi-billion-dollar portfolios, led large national teams, and consistently delivered transformational results in operations, recruiting, sales, and distribution strategy. Yet despite her success, Stacey recognized she was helping build someone else’s dream while sacrificing her own vision for freedom, flexibility, and fulfillment. Two years ago, she chose a different path—one centered on ownership, intentional living, and helping others redefine success on their own terms.
Today, Stacey serves as President and Career Ownership Coach with The Entrepreneur’s Source, where she guides professionals who are navigating career crossroads, from burned-out executives seeking a new chapter to veterans transitioning from military to civilian life. Through her signature ILWE Framework™, focused on Income, Lifestyle, Wealth, and Equity, Stacey helps individuals gain clarity about the future they truly want before exploring business ownership or franchise opportunities. Her coaching philosophy is deeply personal and highly intentional, rooted in understanding each client’s goals, aspirations, and desired lifestyle before recommending any path forward. Having mentored more than 700 professionals with an impressive success rate in entrepreneurship transitions, Stacey has become known for helping people create businesses that support the life they want to live, rather than consume it.
Beyond her professional accomplishments, Stacey’s work is grounded in faith, service, and resilience. Following her husband’s courageous battle with stage 4 prostate cancer and his passing in late 2025, she became even more committed to supporting veterans and families navigating life transitions. She actively partners with veteran organizations, serves as a mentor to young women through her sorority, supports nonprofits focused on youth and community development, and continues to advocate for women charting their own course in leadership and business. Whether she is coaching clients, speaking on career transformation, or preparing to write her first book, Stacey remains driven by a simple but powerful belief: business ownership should fund the life you’ve earned, not take you away from it.
• Central Michigan University
Master of Science Administration - MSA, Organizational Leadership
• Bluefield University
Bachelor of Science, Organizational Management and Development
• National Association for Women Business Owners
• Sorority (mentoring young women in 9th-12th grade)
• Board member with Envision Resolution (nonprofit helping with obesity in children
• Mainly young men)
• Mentoring young women in 9th-12th grade through sorority
• Including teaching etiquette
• Public behavior
• Self-representation
• And community service
What do you attribute your success to?
I truly feel like God is my driver. People ask me how I took care of my husband as a caregiver and worked at the same time, and I guess I never think about it like that. I don't ever look at it as I'm doing this because of this. I look at it as I enjoy what I'm doing, and so whatever I'm doing, I'm going to do the best I can, because I feel like my business is being a steward of God. Anything that I do is an image of him. So I think that's my driver, and I always enjoy helping people. I don't feel like it's a plague - I look at it as I'm doing great things for people for his cause.
What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
I think as women, especially working in corporate, we tend to do so many things well. But at a particular time, we're doing something well that's servicing something, and then we get boxed in - 'This is what she's good at.' What I would tell women is be very persistent and chart your own course. Don't allow someone else to box you into what they think you're good at. You bring so many other things to the table, but we get boxed in. Well, this person is really good at recruiting, so let's put her in recruiting. She's really good at operations. But you may be good at sales, and you get looked over and glossed over for other roles because they boxed you in. So I'm just a firm believer - position yourself around the right people, but also be your own voice, be your own person, directing people to other things. Chart your own course, not let somebody else do that for you.