A highly accomplished and widely respected executive coach, Kristin Derwinski works with business executives and C-suite leaders to identify solutions to drive organizational growth, success, and engagement. Recognized as a confidant to high-profile leaders, Kristin is a multifaceted collaborative resource with key strengths in developing strategies and delivering constructive feedback that enables measurable performance outcomes. She is recognized for providing leaders safe environments to discuss emerging issues and concerns.
In her current capacity as an Executive Consultant and Coach with Stewart Leadership, Kristin advises executives in a wide range of areas, including internal relationship development, brand building and management, change and transformation, and sharing clarity around roles and responsibilities to run an effective business. Kristin helps people uncover and leverage their strengths in new and inspiring ways to facilitate goal attainment. She engages in active listening to help individuals build successful leadership styles that resonate organization wide. Applying her solution-focused approach, Kristin elicits clear, well-defined, and emotionally engaging goals that enable her clients to realize positive outcomes.
In previous leadership roles in global manufacturing and retail, Kristin assumed increasing levels of accountability. As a dedicated coach, she worked with company leaders on operational excellence and people. Over her tenure, Kristin partnered with Sr. Leaders to build new leadership teams and improve communication and collaboration across all functions. She also orchestrated global restructuring efforts that saved one organization $30M and a subsequent transformation effort that reduced costs by $10M. Kristin has been instrumental in providing leadership with a level of strategic guidance that ensured existing and departing employees remained engaged and committed to the changes impacting the organization. She worked proactively with employees in the US, Europe, China, and Japan and drove succession planning efforts to establish the company’s leadership bench for the future.
Adding to Kristin’s accolades, she also leveraged her human resources background to align systems with global business processes and fueled consistent best practices across Australia, Brazil, China, Japan, Europe, and the US. Her understanding of different cultures and approaches to communication makes her a valued and respected resource. She championed an effort to establish an organizational development function, which included creating a new team to attract, select, and retain talent. Kristin applied her coaching expertise to build internal capacity and relationships and compelled the adoption of change management principles. Her work as a culture carrier fostered a sense of belonging, which she promoted as a coach to senior leaders that extended throughout the organization.
Kristin completed her Master of Business Administration from Marquette University and her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Spanish from the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse. She is an Associate Certified Coach [ACC] with the International Coaching Federation and is certified to facilitate leadership and development workshops and assessments. She is the current President Elect for the Association of Talent Development for SE Wisconsin. She speaks fluent Spanish. Kristin resides with her family in Wisconsin.
In her current capacity as an Executive Consultant and Coach with Stewart Leadership, Kristin advises executives in a wide range of areas, including internal relationship development, brand building and management, change and transformation, and sharing clarity around roles and responsibilities to run an effective business. Kristin helps people uncover and leverage their strengths in new and inspiring ways to facilitate goal attainment. She engages in active listening to help individuals build successful leadership styles that resonate organization wide. Applying her solution-focused approach, Kristin elicits clear, well-defined, and emotionally engaging goals that enable her clients to realize positive outcomes.
In previous leadership roles in global manufacturing and retail, Kristin assumed increasing levels of accountability. As a dedicated coach, she worked with company leaders on operational excellence and people. Over her tenure, Kristin partnered with Sr. Leaders to build new leadership teams and improve communication and collaboration across all functions. She also orchestrated global restructuring efforts that saved one organization $30M and a subsequent transformation effort that reduced costs by $10M. Kristin has been instrumental in providing leadership with a level of strategic guidance that ensured existing and departing employees remained engaged and committed to the changes impacting the organization. She worked proactively with employees in the US, Europe, China, and Japan and drove succession planning efforts to establish the company’s leadership bench for the future.
Adding to Kristin’s accolades, she also leveraged her human resources background to align systems with global business processes and fueled consistent best practices across Australia, Brazil, China, Japan, Europe, and the US. Her understanding of different cultures and approaches to communication makes her a valued and respected resource. She championed an effort to establish an organizational development function, which included creating a new team to attract, select, and retain talent. Kristin applied her coaching expertise to build internal capacity and relationships and compelled the adoption of change management principles. Her work as a culture carrier fostered a sense of belonging, which she promoted as a coach to senior leaders that extended throughout the organization.
Kristin completed her Master of Business Administration from Marquette University and her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Spanish from the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse. She is an Associate Certified Coach [ACC] with the International Coaching Federation and is certified to facilitate leadership and development workshops and assessments. She is the current President Elect for the Association of Talent Development for SE Wisconsin. She speaks fluent Spanish. Kristin resides with her family in Wisconsin.
