About Us
From stuck to SuperPumped. That’s what we do.
A consulting and coaching collective built on real-world experience
With Ben Walters at the helm, the SuperPumped team is a connected community of big thinkers and limit pushers, built on real-world experiences. We help you envision, stretch, and strive for what’s possible to boldly break through barriers and ignite transformation.
Our Philosophy
No more waiting--do it!
From launching a business, navigating a major life decision, or rethinking how your team operates, we help you tune out the doubts and crank up the courage. With grounded strategies and energizing support, we give you the tools to climb higher with confidence toward goals that matter and a future that inspires you.
Meet the team
Our people bring the spark
Ben Walters
Founder, builder, & story-driven leader
Ben is a doer, a problem solver, and passionately optimistic leader with a collaborative spirit. His skills and business background are as diverse as the people and places he’s encountered along the way. As a result, Ben developed a keen ability to recognize what’s possible in others, often before they see it themselves. He’s helped disabled entrepreneurs start life-changing businesses in Africa; created a system for persons experiencing homelessness to get back into the workforce and secure housing; and guided churches in clarifying their missions and making bold moves. Ben has started, scaled, turned around, and sold several business ventures. He’s worked for corporations like CNN, UPS, and Marriott. He even served as the general contractor on an award-winning transformation of a 48-bed nursing home into a spectacular mansion.
Born and raised in Arizona, Ben has extended work and life adventures in Texas, DC, Boston, PA, and Ohio, as well as shorter stints in NYC, Germany, South Africa, and Puerto Rico. Ben is always moving, averaging 30,000 steps a day playing pick-up basketball and racquetball, running, hiking, and walking his dogs with his wife Kristen. He constantly challenges himself and recently completed the two-day Giants Cup Trail Run in South Africa and an unsanctioned 50-mile rim-to-rim-to-rim Grand Canyon run. No matter where in the world you are, if you need a partner for a challenge, Ben can be on the next flight to help you launch your dream.
Jay DeFazio
Storyteller, strategist, & clarity-builder
Jay is a licensed educator, artist, author, and collaborator. He creates and delivers courses and workshops on a variety of topics, from diversity in the workplace to arts integration, creativity, communication, and storytelling through art. As a speaker and teacher, Jay has worked with many Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky organizations, including the Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati Opera, US Bank, the Art Academy of Cincinnati, SOS Art, Thomas More University, and numerous local high schools and nonprofits. In 2020, Jay received the ArtWorks’ Emerging Artist Award and a grant to create an art project with the local community. The success of that program earned him the 2021 Northern Kentucky Artist of the Year award.
Jay is a skilled communicator with a passion for finding creative ways of connecting ideas and audiences. In addition to traditional methods of writing, speaking, and teaching, he also uses the universal language of art: a multifaceted approach to exchanging ideas and creating unique experiences.
A recent empty-nester, Jay and his wife Amanda enjoy traveling, being outdoors, watching basketball, and spending time with family.
kristen walters
Licensed psychologist, deep thinker, grounded guide
Kristen has empowered children and families for two decades as a school psychologist for Cincinnati Public Schools. She helps families whose children are not meeting developmental milestones, struggling with social skills or behavioral issues, or are simply trying to find their way. She supports and counsels parents on how to advocate for their children and offers tips and techniques to make progress at home, school, and in the world. She offers diagnostic testing, intervention planning, and program placement, as well as support and skills groups for children, siblings, and parents.

Kristen is a Boston native now residing in Cincinnati. In her free time, she creates encouraging greeting cards, restores vintage furniture, and stylishly appoints thrifted dollhouses. She also loves to walk her dogs, go to concerts with her brother-in-law Tony, and travel to visit family and her three children.
Who we work with
If you’re stuck, burned out, plateaued, or just need a fresh outside perspective, we’re here to help.
You don’t have to figure it out on your own. Sometimes the best way forward is to have a new, objective perspective. Our skilled team offers insight to help you step back, gain clarity, and zero in on what’s important.
Transformation requires more than mere talk
We’re not here to just inspire you. We’re here to help you go further, dig deeper, and climb higher.
Transformation takes action, accountability, and a clear plan. When we hiked 50 miles rim to rim to rim through the Grand Canyon (13,000+ feet of elevation change over 17 hours and 40 minutes), the planning, strategizing and commitment started months earlier. If you want to accomplish big goals you need to go beyond feel-good advice and start doing the hard work that leads to real triumphs. From strategy to execution, we help you turn your bold ideas into measurable progress, so you’re building your next move, not just dreaming of it.
Let’s talk about your next path
Whether it’s your business, your team, your story, or just your next step, we’re ready to walk with you.
Together, we’ll silence the distractions, clarify your path, and catapult you toward meaningful progress. It’s time to realize what’s possible and take action that your future self will thank you for.
