Kristen Hansen

Kristen Hansen provides managers with strategies to build leadership, resilience, adaptability, creativity, coaching, self-management and engagement skills. 

Kristen has spoken at over 50 leadership related conferences in the last 5 years purely through word of mouth and until recently has not been associated with any speakers’ bureau or associations. Conference speaking has been at Westpac, Macquarie Bank, Energex, Ambulance NSW, AHRI (The Australian Human Resources Institute), TEC (The Executive Connection), State Trustees, AITD Conference, National HR Summit and more.

Kristen has also been invited to speak at international conferences in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Bangladesh, US and Hong Kong and is an expert radio commentator. Kristen is a regular columnist for CEO World, has been interviewed on the Today Show and is a contributor to “Leadership Matters”. Her first book TRACTION – The Neuroscience of Leadership and Performance is out now.

Kristen draws from her post graduate studies in the Neuroscience of Leadership and 20 years of management roles with major Australian organisations such as Pacific Dunlop, Fairfax and News Limited. Kristen has been an accredited Executive Coach with the International Coaching Federation, a Master Trainer in Emotional Intelligence and is accredited in PRISM Brain Mapping –the world’s first online neuroscience-based profiling tool.
 
She has worked with executives from Google, BP, Westpac Group, Commonwealth Bank, Macquarie Bank, ANZ, NAB, Bank of America, Allianz, Telstra, Arnott’s Campbell’s, Energex, Goodman, IBM, Specialty Fashion Group, Foxtel, QBE, NRMA, Aboriginal Housing Commission, Qld Government, Department of Transport and Main Roads, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Defence Force, Government of South Australia, South Australian Police, Vic Roads, Ambulance Service of NSW, The University of Adelaide, UTS, UNSW, NRMA, Boral and more.