Kristina
Brunelle
Developing Confident Leaders, Strengthening Organizations, and Inspiring Lasting Organizational Excellence.
Kristina Brunelle is an accomplished leadership consultant, executive coach, facilitator, and organizational development expert with more than 30 years of experience helping leaders and teams thrive. She partners with organizations to strengthen leadership, improve communication, navigate change, and build high-performing workplace cultures. Through engaging workshops, executive coaching, and practical leadership strategies, Kristina equips individuals and organizations with the tools they need to inspire people, elevate performance, and create sustainable success.
Kristina
Brunelle
Developing Confident Leaders, Strengthening Organizations, and Inspiring Lasting Organizational Excellence.
Kristina Brunelle is an accomplished leadership consultant, executive coach, facilitator, and organizational development expert with more than 30 years of experience helping leaders and teams thrive. She partners with organizations to strengthen leadership, improve communication, navigate change, and build high-performing workplace cultures. Through engaging workshops, executive coaching, and practical leadership strategies, Kristina equips individuals and organizations with the tools they need to inspire people, elevate performance, and create sustainable success.
"The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership." — Harvey S. Firestone
Speaking Topics
Helping Leaders Inspire Growth, Strengthen Teams, and Build
High-Performing Organizations.
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Most Popular Courses
Lead with Intention: The Essential Skills of Effective Leadership
Effective leadership requires more than expertise or authority. This course examines the behaviors that build credibility, inspire confidence, and help people perform at their best. Participants identify their leadership strengths, recognize habits that may limit their effectiveness, and create practical strategies for increasing their impact.
Management Essentials: What Every Manager Needs to Know
This practical course provides a foundation for managing people effectively. Participants learn how to set
expectations, communicate priorities, delegate work, provide feedback, coach employees, address
performance concerns, and establish accountability.
Coach, Don’t Rescue: Helping Employees Think for Themselves
Managers frequently become the default problem-solvers for their teams. This course teaches a
practical coaching approach that helps employees analyze challenges, identify options, make decisions,
and take greater ownership of their work.
Communicate Like a Leader
Effective leaders communicate with clarity, consistency, and purpose. Participants learn how to organize messages,
adapt communication to different audiences, explain decisions, reduce misunderstanding, and communicate
effectively during challenging situations.
From Group to Team: Building the Conditions for High Performance
Simply bringing people together does not create a team. Participants learn how shared purpose, clear roles, trust, communication, decision-making, and accountability contribute to team effectiveness.
Productive Conflict: Disagreeing Without Damaging Relationships
Conflict is not always harmful. When managed effectively, it can improve decisions, reveal risks, and generate
better ideas. Participants learn how to disagree directly, remain focused on the issue, manage emotional
reactions, and protect working relationships.
Inclusive Leadership in Everyday Practice
Inclusive leadership is demonstrated through daily decisions, relationships, meetings, assignments,
feedback, and access to opportunity. Participants learn practical behaviors that help people feel respected, heard, supported, and able to contribute.
Leading Change Without Losing Your People
Organizational change often fails because leaders focus on plans, systems, and deadlines while underestimating the human response. Participants learn how to explain the case for change, anticipate resistance, involve stakeholders, communicate consistently, and support employees through transition.
Think Before You Solve: Better Problem-Solving at Work
Teams often rush into solutions before identifying the real problem. Participants learn how to define issues clearly, distinguish causes from symptoms, gather relevant information, generate alternatives, and select practical solutions.
Managing Yourself Before Managing Others
Effective management begins with self-management. Participants examine how personal habits, communication patterns, emotional reactions, priorities, and assumptions affect their ability to lead others.
Service That Builds Trust
Exceptional service depends on reliability, communication, empathy, and follow-through. Participants learn
how to understand customer or member needs, set realistic expectations, respond to concerns, and create
experiences that strengthen trust.
Culture Is What You Reinforce
Culture is shaped by the behaviors organizations reward, tolerate, discourage, and ignore. Participants examine the messages created by leadership actions, management practices, policies, and everyday decisions and identify opportunities to align culture with stated values.
Leading in a Relationship-Driven Business
Success in real estate, associations, and nonprofit organizations depends heavily on reputation, trust, influence, and relationships. Participants learn how to lead effectively when authority is limited and results depend on cooperation from clients, members, volunteers, partners, and colleagues.
Custom Programs and Facilitation
Leadership Team Retreats
Customized retreats help leadership teams step away from daily demands to examine priorities, relationships, decision-making, culture, or organizational direction. Each retreat is designed around the group’s needs and includes structured discussion, practical exercises, and clear next steps.
Team Development Workshops
These customized sessions help intact teams address specific challenges such as trust, communication, conflict, accountability, role clarity, hybrid work, or collaboration. Programs can include a team assessment, facilitated dialogue, working agreements, and an action plan.
Manager Development Series
Organizations can combine several courses into a customized manager-development program. Topics may include management fundamentals, communication, delegation, feedback, coaching, performance management, inclusion, conflict resolution, and leading change.
Emerging Leader Development Series
This multi-session program prepares high-potential professionals and new leaders for broader responsibility.
Programs can include self-awareness, leadership presence, communication, influence, strategic thinking,
relationship-building, resilience, and career development.
Facilitated Strategic Planning
Kristina guides leadership teams, boards, and organizations through a structured process for clarifying priorities, examining current realities, identifying strategic goals, and developing measurable action plans.
Organizational Culture and Change Facilitation
Customized facilitation helps organizations address culture, values, employee engagement, leadership alignment, restructuring, or significant organizational change. The process may include stakeholder interviews, assessments, facilitated sessions, communication planning, and implementation support.
Conference and Association Program Customization
Existing programs can be tailored to an organization’s industry, audience, conference theme, available time,
and learning objectives. A customized keynote, breakout session, workshop, or leadership program can also be
developed for a specific event.
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