Upside: Kristi Hedges

Kristi Hedges is a senior leadership coach with a specialty in executive communications, and the author of the The Power of Presence: Unlock Your Potential to Influence and Engage Others and The Inspiration Code: How the Best Leaders Energize People Every Day. Her workshops and coaching programs have been utilized by CEOs and teams in organizations from the Fortune 10, to the U.S. government to nonprofits. She runs her own coaching practice, The Hedges Company, and is a founding partner in the leadership development firm, Element North. Kristi writes about leadership for Forbes and is regularly featured in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Entrepreneur, BBC, Chief Learning Officer and CNBC. She’s a teaching faculty member of the Georgetown University Institute for Transformational Leadership.