Hi, I'm Kris...welcome!
I work with mission-driven teams, rising leaders and purposeful career changers to unearth their potential, increase their self-awareness and live and work in a way that is aligned with their values. Working together through a collaborative and iterative process my clients are able to significantly grow their capacity to lead themselves and others.
Prior to launching my practice, I spent nearly two decades in a variety of roles focused on hiring and growing leaders, building inclusive and equitable cultures, and designing scalable program strategies at fast-growing nonprofit organizations and schools.
Equity and justice are significant drivers in my work. Marginalized communities, in particular Black, Brown and Indigenous folks and those who hold LGBTQ+ identities are disproportionately impacted by economic, health, and educational disparities. For this reason, I work to ensure my coaching reaches people in these groups as much as possible. Currently 60% of my clients (past & present) identify as a person of color, and 35% identify as LGBTQ+.
I'd love to hear what brought you here. Click the links below to learn more about background and my values and how we might work together.
What my clients are saying....
Om Chitale
Director of Diversity Admissions at Berkeley-Haas | Founder of Teachers of Oakland
Kris helped me unearth the alignment between my work, my values, and my purpose and develop tools to better navigate my own path. Through a combination of reflection exercises, courageous questions, and the energy leadership assessment, Kris and I were able to understand what drives me, what fears hold me back, and who I can be if I take ownership of my mentality.
Kris is warm, and that helped in making me feel comfortable sharing some of my deeper insecurities. She's also a great connector - finding relationships between things I reflected on from session to session. I appreciated her ability to filter details through a broader picture of who I am.