Kristin Baer, Founder & Principal
With over 20 years in leadership development and training, Kristin brings expertise and creativity to her work as a facilitator, speaker, coach, and consultant. Kristin focuses on Connected Leadership, helping leaders create sustainable social impact by fostering transformational connections with themselves, their teams, and the environment.
Kristin helps leaders and organizations who sense there’s a better way to lead, work, and create sustainable innovation but aren’t sure how to get there. She equips leaders to show up as their best selves, so they can create connected workspaces where people can engage, innovate, and do their best work.
Kristin's goal is to help organizations invest in systematic, whole human approaches to leadership development to create workplaces equipped to lead in uncertainty and create sustainable innovation with positive social impact.
What Kristin Brings to Every Client
With 20+ years in leadership development and facilitation, Kristin has trained leaders across corporate, nonprofit, military, and educational sectors.
She brings her ardent commitment to a research-backed approach, her love of continuous creativity, and her adventurous experience hiking in nature and traveling to all 50 United States and training leaders from 62+ countries to support cultivating whole human leadership practices that support your leadership and wellbeing development.
She knows connecting with curiosity to ourselves, others, and a sense of something bigger than ourselves gives us the brave boost we need to lead in the most engaged, energized, connected ways.
What Makes Kristin Unique
Kristin's background as a communications specialist, university faculty member, TEDx Co-Organizer, seminary graduate, applied linguist, world traveler, international military instructor, Mindful Outdoor Guide, UN Sustainable Development Goals Coaching Collective Co-Founder, and leadership developer, allows her to support leaders navigating their own growth and creating connected relationships with those they lead.
She believes the more we do the human work of leadership, the more we grow in authentic alignment, sustain innovative system changes, and lead from a place of thriving connectedness to create lasting social impact.
Kristin's Approach
Kristin brings an integrated whole-systems approach anchored in human connection to create the conditions for authentic growth and those "aha" moments that shift how leaders think and lead.
She creates interactive learning experiences that develop the core human capacities leaders need to thrive in today’s complex landscape including Leadership Identity, Building Human Skills in the Age of AI, Team Connection, and Leading in Uncertainty.
Her work has been described as "a blend of science and practicality but feels like magic."
Research-Informed & Whole Human
Kristin has a commitment to creating research-informed and data driven resources, so that you get the latest, most applicable tools for the current challenges you are facing and for the future hurdles that are coming.
She also takes a whole human approach, meaning she considers mindset, the nervous system, emotional intelligence, stress resilience, and an array of other influences that may be affecting your current leadership.
