Kristen Leone

Executive Leader - Leadership Coach - Keynote Speaker

Kristen Leone is a former Fortune500 executive, keynote speaker, and expert-for-hire on how to meaningfully improve business leadership and individual team performance at venture firms, startups, and large publicly traded companies.

A Princeton and Wharton MBA graduate, Kristen has co-founded and helped launch two startups of her own (a B2B fashion marketplace and a fitness wearable). She has led sales, business development, and strategy teams at Google, General Mills, IBM, Pfizer, and WebMD. At Google, Kristen was tapped to be a founding member of the Sales Excellence Coaching team, becoming the program’s top rated coach.

Known for her powerful presence and smart, honest advice, Kristen draws from her own vulnerable lived experience and voracious reading of wisdom from disparate fields–ancient philosophy to sports to pop culture–to inspire leaders and teams to push past inertia and elevate meaning and performance at work and in their personal lives.