Meet Kristen

Kristen is the Founder and Principal Coach at Brightside Team Coaching. A Yale MBA, she has fifteen years of experience serving on corporate teams, delivering solutions for the technology, media, and industrial materials industries. Kristen has completed multiple extensive coach training and certification programs, earning the designation of Organizational Relationship & Systems Certified Coach from CRR Global, Certified Professional Co-Active Coach from the Co-Active Training Institute, and Associate Certified Coach from the International Coaching Federation. She is passionate about using systems inspired coaching to foster transformational change for her clients.  Her success has been replicated across the private, government, and nonprofit sectors.

Kristen is an American citizen, living in South Florida, with close ties to Brazil, where she previously resided. She is the creator of this website, as well as that for her life coaching business, Carioca Coaching. Kristen is an avid outdoor athlete, photographer, and yoga master. In her free time, she enjoys finding new experiences off the beaten path.