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Karissa Kienast

 

Member profile details

Membership level
Standard
First name
Karissa
Last name
Kienast
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Job Information

Job title
Director of Professional Learning
 

Professional Information

Degrees
BA Communications; MA Organizational Leadership
Expertise
  • Change Management
  • Coaching
  • Communication
  • Conflict Management
  • Consulting
  • Employee Surveys
  • Facilitation
  • Leadership Development
  • Performance Management
  • Personality Assessment
  • Strategy Development
  • Talent Development
  • Team Development
  • Training
  • Strategic Planning
  • Communications
  • Personality Assessments
  • Project Management
  • Human Resources
  • Talent Management
  • Organization Alignment
Special Expertise
Gallup-Certified CliftonStrengths Coach
Professional Certifications
DDI Certified, Maxwell Leadership Certified
Industry Experience
  • Education
  • Higher Education
  • Human Resources
  • Information Technology
  • Manufacturing
  • Nonprofit
  • Operations
  • Small Business
Years in the Field
10+
Professional Summary
The best leadership development programs don’t feel like training. They feel like the moment someone finally understands why they lead the way they do — and what to do about it.

That’s the work I’m in.

I’m a Learning & Development leader with 15+ years building programs that develop leaders, strengthen teams, and create measurable behavioral change — not just completion rates.

At Midland College, I architected the institution’s first CliftonStrengths organizational rollout — 100+ faculty and staff, full facilitation, individual coaching, and team development programming — resulting in 100% participant agreement on strengths application outcomes and a 4.8/5.0 effectiveness rating.

At Endeavor Energy, I designed and facilitated a six-month cohort-based leadership development program for new and emerging managers, trained 150+ managers in Leader as Coach methodology, and drove a 207% increase in annual training hours by building programs that reached every level of the organization — from field-based employees to senior leaders.

My facilitation work spans CliftonStrengths (Gallup-Certified Coach), DDI Interaction Management, Emotional Intelligence, DISC, Communication, Decision-Making, and Change Management. I hold a Maxwell Leadership certification and an ATD Instructional Design certificate.
I build programs that give leaders the skills and language to lead better — in high-growth environments, through organizational change, and across complex, matrixed organizations.

I’m drawn to organizations where leadership development has a real seat at the table and where the work is measured by behavior change, not just hours logged.
 

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