Profound leaders are profoundly present, and emotionally sophisticated.
Let’s deepen your ability to connect and inspire.
Why work with Kismet?
Because effective leaders are emotionally sophisticated leaders. Yet negative patterns often prevent brilliant, highly competent people from cultivating thriving teams or honing meaningful, long-term vision. Together, we’ll dismantle the beliefs and behaviors that block your deepest potential, elevate your emotional IQ, and empower you to lead with authenticity, imagination, empathy, and courage.
Nurture emotional mindfulness and discipline
Dissolve emotional rigidity
Cultivate executive presence
Communicate clearly, effectively, and powerfully
Harmonize behavior and vision
Eradicate negative patterns
Build deep, authentic relationships
Grow driven, successful, and inspired teams
Navigate conflict with agility
Clarify and pursue a higher purpose
Transcend false limitations
Balance ambition with humility
Empower colleagues to grasp their true value
How We Transform Competence Into Wisdom
A data-driven, evidence-based foundation. Goals that meet and redefine expectations. Transformation that’s traceable.
The path to your higher executive self—and all that entails for your career—is grounded in method and rigor. And it’s supported by an experienced, no-bullsh*tting confidante who will always ensure your long-term growth is the heart of every conversation.
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Mining for Truth
Our objectives flow directly from deep conversations with the client and a group of stakeholders who have a vested interest in the client’s success. This Leadership Discovery exercise ensures we have a holistic grasp on the system in which the client operates, as well as the personalities, histories, and dynamics at play. By hearing honest, nuanced feedback, clients become awakened to how they impact others and empowered to transform themselves in response.
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Measuring for Accuracy
The results of the Leadership Discovery are distilled into a tailored report that provides a solid foundation for goals, subgoals, and success metrics. Data, evidence, and accountability will light your way to permanent behavioral shifts that ensure your ability to lead and inspire.
03.
Staying the Course
Discipline and perseverance are required to break negative patterns, cultivate emotional intelligence, and unblock new visions. Most clients commit 6 - 12 months to this process, meeting with Kristine twice each month for one hour, as well as leveraging her support and attention through email and spot calls for urgent matters.
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Trusting, Confidently
A code of strict confidentiality underpins Kismet’s engagements. This ensures clients can be vulnerable, honest, and present, and that what flows from our work makes transformation exciting and inevitable.
Does coaching get results?
Success Stories
“Kristine guided me through the most challenging and stressful part of my career. In my position as CEO, it’s hard to find sounding boards that are objective. Having her confidential perspective and strong coaching helped me through some incredibly complex dynamics and situations. In addition, Kristine’s 360 process raised my awareness and prompted me to address my shortcomings as a leader. I strongly recommend her to other executives.”
— CEO / Leading Tech Company, US
"Kristine is truly gifted in the ways she can listen, empathize, and get to the root of the issue. Every session is extremely productive - filled with profound insights, simplified to the heart of what matters and to run with immediately actionable items. Her wisdom and years of experience make you feel not only she understands the depths and the dynamics of people but she is on your side rooting for your success."
— Executive | The Boston Consulting Group
"I’ve had the privilege of working with and receiving coaching from Kristine for over 5 years now. As a leader of one of the fastest growing healthcare companies in the Northeast, I can confidently say that Kristine has provided some of the most significant elements of our success. High growth is incredibly exciting and rewarding, but comes with significant challenges: rapid individual role evolution, executive team alignment, fast decision-making, as well as setting and communicating vision, mission, and values so all team members and stakeholders row in the same direction. Kristine gets it — she understands the fundamentals of our business and strategy but is also in tune with the more invisible, human elements of individual and team dynamics, a honed skill that has been so valuable in our work with her. As we went from 50 employees to over 800, Kristine provided us with valuable CEO and partnership alignment coaching. During this time she also facilitated broader strategic and company vision setting sessions with larger groups of team members. I highly recommend Kristine and the coaching work provided by Kismet Consulting.”
— CEO | Rapid Growth Healthcare Co.
“Appointing a new CEO is a challenging moment to face for start-up founders. Kristine came in to help coach me through this transition enabling me to redefine my role, transform my leadership style and empower the executive team to engage in the business effectively. Kristine’s 360 process had a strong impact in raising my awareness and highlighting my growth opportunities and her organic style gave our sessions a spacious forum to explore and surface salient topics. I recommend this process and Kristine whole heartedly.”
— Founder, CEO & Serial Entrepreneur / Software & Tech, UK
"Kristine was my guide and mentor through a personal and work transformation. She highlighted hindrances I didn’t know I had, helped me face ones I’d been avoiding, and reminded me of ones I’d already overcome - with respect, clarity, honesty and courage. Her years of experience made a big difference in getting me where I wanted to be. Highly recommended."
— Executive | Bain & Company
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