About Kirsten

I help individuals and organizations navigate ambiguity amid uncertainty and rapid change.

For over 25 years, I have been leading collective engagements and building partnerships in tribal colleges, universities, art museums, non-profits, treatment facilities, and a national laboratory. In all environments, my work fosters relational conditions for collective visioning, foresight thinking, and strategic collaboration.

As a Subject Matter Expert for the People and Organizational Development Team for Los Alamos National Laboratory, I facilitate strategic planning retreats and discussions, scale innovative culture solutions, and support theory of change processes for organizations.

As Adjunct Faculty in the PhD program in Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership, I teach the Collaboratorium courses, where dissertation writers stretch their thinking through collaborative writing.

I am most interested in ways that multi-disciplinary conversations between social/behavioral sciences, hard sciences, and the humanities interact to spark innovation, inform policy, and create thoughts we didn’t yet know we could think.

I hold a BA in Cultural Anthropology from Dickinson College, an MA in Eastern Classics from St. John’s College, and a PhD in American Studies with distinction from the University of New Mexico.