I have spent 27 years at UNICEF USA — an organization driven by the belief that every child deserves a chance. For the last nine of those years, I led learning and development, helping people at every level grow into stronger leaders, deeper collaborators, and more self-aware human beings. That work — and the decades of leadership experience that preceded it — is the foundation of everything I bring to coaching.

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I've sat in rooms with C-Suite executives, frontline managers and individual contributors. I've led teams through uncertainty, facilitated hard conversations, navigated change, and watched what happens when people finally see themselves clearly. I know what it feels like to work inside a mission-driven organization — the passion, the complexity, and the particular challenge of leading people who care deeply. And I've spent years figuring out how to channel that into something useful.
 

As the Chief Coaching Officer at Kristi Burnham Consulting, I bring all of it — the experience, the frameworks, and the stories — to leaders and teams who are ready to grow.
 

I'm a Gallup CliftonStrengths Certified Coach, a Prosci Certified Change Management Practitioner, and soon to be ICF-credentialed coach. My own top five strengths — Relator, Positivity, Communication, Developer, Harmony — show up in every conversation I have: I'm drawn to people, I believe in their potential, and I work hard to create the kind of space where real honesty is possible.
 

My coaching is grounded in positive psychology and a strengths-based approach. I focus on what's right with people, not what's wrong with them. I believe most people already have the answers — they just need a judgment-free space to find them.
 

Outside of coaching, I'm a proud University of Georgia graduate, a traveler (I have been to 55 countries and territories and am always looking for the next trip), a music lover, and someone who believes deeply that sunshine fixes most things.