Kristi Hedges is a senior leadership coach and the author of The Inspiration Code: How the Best Leaders Energize People Every Day and The Power of Presence: Unlock Your Potential to Influence and Engage Others. Her workshops and coaching programs have been utilized by CEOs and teams in organizations from the Fortune 10 to the U.S. government to nonprofits. She runs her own coaching practice, The Hedges Company, and is a founding partner in the leadership development firm, Element North. She speaks widely on leadership topics for corporate groups and at industry conferences around the world. Hedges is frequently engaged by clients to help with more effective and inspiring communications, leadership presence, team development, influencing skills, emotional intelligence, conflict management, and motivating through growth and change. She has also coached numerous new CEOs to help them step into the full capacity of the leadership role, including managing boards, investors, and key stakeholders. Hedges writes about leadership for Harvard Business Review and Forbes, and is featured in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Entrepreneur, BBC, Chief Learning Officer, and CNBC. Hedges holds a B.A. from Virginia Tech and an M.S. from Purdue University in communications. She is a credentialed coach through Georgetown University and has served as a teaching faculty member for the Georgetown University Institute for Transformational Leadership.