Professional Leadership Trainer: Kristy Frieden
Founder / Owner
Kristy specializes in motivating, training and coaching professionals, executives and physicians in the areas of leadership, change management, emotional intelligence, service excellence, employee engagement and performance management. She has more than 17 years of healthcare management experience, most recently working for the MetroHealth System in Cleveland, Ohio, as Manager of Performance Management and then as an Organizational and Performance Development Specialist.
Her background includes extensive facilitator training with GE Healthcare Solutions, Inc., as it relates to selecting, developing, coaching and evaluating top performers. She has obtained The Developing Leadership Through Emotional Intelligence Certificate from Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management. Frieden holds a bachelor’s degree from Slippery Rock University and a master’s from West Virginia University in Vocational Counseling.
Kristy is currently a facilitator for Kent State’s Center for Corporate and Professional Development and works with organizations of all sizes and industries including higher education, healthcare, manufacturing, and technology.
She is an accomplished martial artist, a 4th degree black belt, and is one of the few female members of the Taekwondo Jidokwan Society in Seoul, South Korea. A native of the Cleveland, she lives with her husband and two beautiful daughters in Chardon, Ohio.
Frieden’s passion and dynamic presentation and coaching style, coupled with her sense of humor and positive approach, engages and motivate clients to focus on their strengths while achieving personal and professional success.