Kristin Baer is the right speaker for social impact organizations, leadership events, member organizations, and conferences that need more than a presentation. Kristin helps leaders who sense there’s a better way to lead, work, and create sustainable innovation but aren’t sure how to get there.
She brings a distinctive approach to every speaking engagement with sessions that are interactive, research-informed, and built around practical leadership competencies. Attendees don't just sit and listen. They engage, reflect, and leave with tools and insights they can put to work immediately. The goal of every session is the ah-ha moment, the shift in thinking that changes how someone leads from that day forward.

Grounded in the latest leadership research, trends, and evidence, so your audience gets what's current and applicable, not outdated theory.
Every session is built for engagement and real conversation. Attendees don't just receive information. They process it, discuss it, and connect it to their own leadership.
Every session ends with concrete takeaways that include specific tools, frameworks, and shifts in thinking attendees can apply to their day-to-day leadership challenges.
Leaders are navigating more uncertainty and change than in any previous time in history. This requires being able to stay grounded and learn skills to be comfortable with the unknown. This session helps leaders understand how stress and uncertainty can impact their work and teams. It provides practical tools to help leaders stay grounded and lead with mindful presence. Participants will leave with tools and practices to build influential, grounded presence.
This session focuses on the powerful skill of deep listening to transform the way we work and lead others. Participants will not only gain a new framework for how to think about listening, they will get a practical self-assessment to raise awareness of their own daily listening habits and engage in real-time listening practice with each other. Leaders will leave with a strategic understanding of how listening shapes organizational culture and practical tools to improve the way they listen to encourage the best work from their teams. One participant said, "Empathy is one of my lowest strengths, but this session helped me realize that I'm capable of real connection with someone else in a short time."
Leaders are being asked to navigate a new work era with increasing AI capabilities and implementation. The leaders who will rise to success are those who are able to leverage AI as a technical tool and lean into the human skills that workplaces need. This session helps leaders understand the emotional and cognitive impacts we're navigating with AI and gain practical tools to develop the critical thinking, relational intelligence, and social health needed for a new age of leadership.
Leaders are often asked to share their strengths or communicate their "why", but many of them don't know what these are or how to share this with their teams. This session engages participants with the power of storytelling from their own experiences to tap into naming their top strengths and motivational drivers. Participants leave with more clarity on who they are as a leader and a surprising sense of connection with the people they lead alongside.
Kristin also designs sessions tailored to your organization or group's specific leadership development needs. Recent custom topics have included Navigating Crucial Conversations, Accelerating Your Career Development, Building Your Leadership Identity, and Using Strengths in Your Team. Reach out to explore what's right for your audience.
Kristin specializes in smaller, focused engagements (10-150 participants) where depth, interaction, and real connection are possible. She works best in settings where the goal isn't just to fill a time slot but to create a genuine shift for the people in the room.
Social impact organizations investing in their leaders
Professional associations and member organizations
Leadership teams at an inflection point
Events where the audience wants to do more than listen










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