Kristen Brown
Kristen Brown MBA is an executive and leadership coach, business leader, and sought-after speaker who helps leaders make better decisions, lead with confidence, and build stronger, more human-centred organisations.
With more than 20 years of professional experience across corporate, education, not-for-profit, and global organisations, Kristen has lived and worked in six countries, bringing a truly international perspective to leadership, culture, and change.
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Kristen Brown MBA is an executive and leadership coach, business leader, and sought-after speaker who helps leaders make better decisions, lead with confidence, and build stronger, more human-centred organisations.
With more than 20 years of professional experience across corporate, education, not-for-profit, and global organisations, Kristen has lived and worked in six countries, bringing a truly international perspective to leadership, culture, and change. She spent more than a decade in senior leadership roles, managing large teams, complex operations, major budgets, and strategic planning initiatives across multiple industries. Most notably, Kristen led the teams responsible for implementing and managing the Government of Qatar’s national quarantine program during a period of extraordinary complexity and pressure; all remotely from Poland.
Today, Kristen is the founder of Valeo Coaching, where she works with executives, emerging leaders, and organisations to create clarity, strengthen leadership capability, and navigate change with confidence. Her coaching combines practical leadership experience with evidence-based frameworks drawn from business, psychology, sociology, and philosophy.
Kristen holds both an MBA and a Master of Leadership and Management, is a member of the International Coaching Federation, and is the former CEO of the Albany Chamber of Commerce and Industry. She is also Chair of Albany’s Historic Whaling Station, a TEDx licensee, and a passionate advocate for local business, diversity, equality, and the future of human-centric leadership in an AI-driven world.
Talks that move a room to act
Each keynote is tailored to your audience, theme and outcomes.
The Impostor Syndrome Myth
Leaders Creating Leaders
Effective Communication
Dealing with Difficult Conversations
GROW your own way
Know yourself and Your Team
Inspiring reads by Kristen Brown
Explore publications and books authored by Kristen Brown.
What your audience walks away with
Belief
Living proof that more is possible, no matter the starting point.
Resilience
Practical strength they can use the moment they leave the room.
Permission
To talk openly about mental health and support one another.
Momentum
The motivation to act, reinvent and perform at a higher level.
What organisers say
"Kristen was smart, funny and very polished in her delivery. The whole vibe she brought was one of relaxed learning."
"I learnt so much from the GROW workshop that I went home and turned my whole life upside down to finally be doing what I want to do"
"We can’t have asked for a better MC and Keynote Speaker, Kristen brought the house down at the end of the day with her humour, honesty and above all storytelling."
"I can’t believe we’ve all spent so much time worrying about being imposters, the reframing Kristen did in her talk had our audience scribbling notes and nodding along for the whole thing."
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