EXECUTIVE COACH. THOUGHT LEADER. FOUNDER.

Kristine Steinberg is a global leadership thinker and the founder of Kismet Consulting. She is known for advancing Radical Presence™ - a leadership capacity she believes will define the next era of successful organizations.

Her work begins with something fundamental - the internal state from which a leader operates. After more than two decades coaching CEOs, C-suite executives, and senior leadership teams across globally renowned organizations, including Bain & Company, BCG, TED, Chanel, Spotify, Microsoft, David Yurman, Adidas, Harvard, LinkedIn, and Chief, Kristine observed a clear pattern: many successful leaders drive themselves through achievement rather than grounded self-acceptance.

That insight became the foundation of Radical Presence™ - a leader’s ability to regulate themselves, expand awareness, and lead from grounded presence rather than ego-driven striving. When leaders develop this capacity, they create environments where truth can be spoken and tension can be worked through with clarity and trust.

Through executive coaching, team development, and strategic advising, Kristine helps leaders and teams surface the dynamics shaping performance - misalignment, unspoken tension, blurred authority, and competing incentives - and transform them into clarity and forward movement.

Her approach integrates executive performance coaching, emotional intelligence, conflict mastery, and root cause techniques. Known for her grounded, direct, and disarmingly clarifying style, Kristine helps leaders build the internal and relational capacities required to thrive in complexity - and create organizations where people can perform at the highest level without abandoning their humanity.