Speaking
The Due Diligence You Forgot.
How to find the human and cultural risks that derail growth, acquisitions and major transformations.
A keynote and roundtable for CEOs, CFOs, private equity teams and the firms that advise them.
Core topics
Two talks. No pep talks.
Signature talk
You audited everything except the people.
The numbers get examined. The contracts get redlined. The leadership team gets a handshake and a dinner. That is where integrations stall, growth plans slip and expensive new systems sit unused. Kristin shows what to look for, how to measure it, and what to do before it shows up on the P&L.
Culture isn’t soft. It’s where the money goes missing.
How to read the way a leadership team actually operates, not the way it describes itself.
Where cultural risk hides in acquisitions, growth plans and system rollouts.
What to measure before you commit, and what to do once you know.
Coaching ROI
Paying for Conversation.
Most executive coaching is an expensive conversation. The industry is counting on you never asking for a receipt.
Anyone can call themselves a coach. All it takes is a weekend certificate, a good website and a few war stories, and suddenly they’re billing your CEO by the hour. There’s no license, no standard for results and nobody checking. Your leader feels better, the invoice gets paid, and nothing in the business actually moves. And when someone asks what changed, the answer is that it’s confidential.
Confidential is a convenient word. What gets said in coaching should stay private, but whether it worked shouldn’t. The software you buy has to show a return, and so do the new hire and the acquisition. Coaching gets a pass because nobody wants to be the one who asks. Kristin asks. She holds coaching to the same standard as any other investment: a baseline before it starts, measures while it runs, and a result you can put in front of a board. If your coach can’t show you that, you aren’t being coached. You’re paying for conversation.
Feeling better is not a result.
Why “it’s confidential” is the most convenient sentence in coaching.
The report your coach should be sending whoever signs the checks.
The questions that end most coaching sales calls in under a minute.
How to tell a coach from a very expensive friend.
Formats
Built for rooms where decisions get made.
20, 30, 45 or 60 minutes
Keynote
For a conference session, investor meeting or client event.
8 to 25 leaders
Executive roundtable or dinner
A short talk, then a facilitated conversation about the situations in the room.
Private client sessions
Bring this to your clients.
Your clients already get the market update and the tax briefing. Give them the conversation nobody else will have with them. Private equity firms, banks, M&A law firms, accounting firms and ERP partners use this session to give their clients something they can act on before the next deal or rollout. Kristin works with you on the audience, the angle and the follow up.
Plan a sessionOn stage
500+ founders and executives coached. None of them needed another motivational speaker.
Author of Impact Founder. Host of the Impact Founder Podcast. Co-author of peer reviewed research on founder mental health.
Past hosts
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“You are a more powerful speaker than Mel Robbins.”
Josh Freed / Proximity
After the talk
From the room to the readout.
Some leaders leave the room uncomfortable. The smart ones find out where their own team stands, starting with the Cultural Readiness Assessment.
The talk
A conversation
The assessment
Findings and a plan
For founder audiences: The Stories Founders Don’t Tell.
Press
In print and on air.
Let’s talk.
Start here.
Tell us about your company and team. You’ll go straight to the Culture Baseline, and if it’s a fit, a member of our team will call you.