Kristen Arterburn


Kristen Holway Arterburn is a leadership coach, change management consultant, and facilitator with over two decades of experience, including senior roles at Fortune 100 firms like Google. She steers clients toward success through experience-backed and research-driven guidance—ensuring solutions that are purposeful and practical. At Google, she led a change management organization that successfully landed complex, company-wide transformations, including critical policy and technology changes across the recruiting and people analytics organizations.

Kristen's approach is rooted in her ability to listen deeply, ask powerful questions, and get to the root cause of issues. She creates a sense of psychological safety that frees leaders and teams to have tough conversations with clarity and respect and find solutions for which they feel accountable. She facilitates these behavioral shifts by utilizing models like Immunity to Change, Crucial Conversations, Nonviolent Communication.

Areas of expertise:

  • Leadership team effectiveness and facilitation

  • Complex system-wide transformation

  • Leadership coaching