ENX Mid-Market

As Vice President of Consulting and Executive Coach at Linkage, a SHRM company, Kristin plays a critical role in empowering senior leaders to elevate business outcomes by fostering environments that support transformative leadership development and coaching. She excels in building client trust and acts as a catalyst for sustainable growth, ensuring each interaction leaves a profound impact. Kristin leads a high-performing team that designs and delivers strategic leadership experiences and personalized coaching tailored to the unique needs of clients and their organizations.

With a rich 30-year career, highlighted by leadership positions of top-tier sales and marketing teams at AT&T, Kristin brings a wealth of valuable experience spanning healthcare, financial services, and higher education. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Boston College and has furthered her studies at Queen Mary College, University of London. Kristin is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and Team Coaching Certified through Corentus. She is also credentialed in various leadership and coaching assessments, including Hogan Assessments (HPI, HDS, and MVPI) and Linkage’s Advancing Women Leaders and Purposeful Leadership Assessments. Kristin's unwavering dedication to serving others drives her commitment to excellence. Her leadership philosophy centers on the continual pursuit of personal and professional growth, encapsulated by her guiding mantra: always strive to be 'Becoming Your Best.'"

An accomplished HR practitioner, Laurie has industry experience in non-profit, health care, consumer packaged goods, and banking. As a senior leader of SHRM’s HR team, she focuses on strategic initiatives to drive innovation to positively impact the employee experience and allow staff to maximize their potential through a culture of learning. She received her Masters’ degree in HRM from Capella University, is a Certified Strengths Coach and holds both SHRM-SCP and CAE designations.

Diane is PwC’s US HR Transformation Leader, helping organizations modernize their HR function to support changing business and workforce needs and expectations. With tenacious curiosity, Diane welcomes the opportunity to explore the art of the possible with organizations to shape HR’s contributions to culture, careers, collaboration, and community. Working across multiple industry segments, she is passionate about helping organizations rethink and reimage HR’s role through new services and modern technologies, inspiring new ways to engage and deliver services to leaders, managers, and employees.      

With over 30 years of consulting, Diane has been a speaker at numerous conferences and internal corporate leadership events. Prior to her role as PwC’s US HR Transformation Leader, Diane was the PwC Global Workday Leader, growing the business organically from inception and driving PwC’s Global professional services business in delivering Workday services. She was also the Diversity & Inclusion Leader for our Industrial Products and Services market segment.      

A math and computer sciences graduate of the University of Texas - Arlington, Diane is a past board member of the YWCA, Dallas helping low-income women achieve stability and higher levels of self-sufficiency. She is also a volleyball and tennis mother, supporting her family’s multiple interests. Diane married a Texas native and now lives in Dallas with her husband, Robert, and son.