Kristen Koch Patel

Kristen is a Leadership Energy Coach, accredited by the International Coaching Federation. Her mission is to help leaders align their personal and professional goals to their passion and values, while raising their levels of awareness and emotional intelligence. She has found the secret to creating an extraordinary life is through energy leadership coaching. Kristen helps leaders understand their leadership energy and how it impacts their relationships, decision making, team dynamics and performance. Leadership energy is the overall level of engaged energy found at the core of an individual’s thoughts, emotions and actions.

When working with Kristen, leaders become aware of the energy they bring to a situation and understand they have the capability to shift it when necessary to inspire themselves and others, increase motivation, and accomplish more with less effort and stress. Energy leadership work empowers individuals to increase productivity, engagement and results. Every individual has a unique energy profile and can be measured by the Energy Leadership Index Assessment. Through this work, clients learn techniques that can change not only the dynamics of a single relationship, but that of a team, and possibly an entire corporate culture. Research shows that individuals with higher levels of engaged energy experience greater satisfaction in all areas of life.

Kristen’s coaching style focuses on awareness building, direct communication, facilitating results, and fun. Kristen is an intuitive listener and has a deep understanding of emotions beyond face value. Throughout her coaching relationships, she empowers, encourages, challenges and holds her clients accountable to the goals most important to them. As foundational work for her coaching practice, Kristen has over 20 years of experience in the healthcare, education and nonprofit sectors. She spent many years at HCA, Hospital Corporation of America, as a bilingual marketing and PR director on the senior leadership team. She works in the non-profit world at the Refuge Centerand her greatest accomplishment has been fulfilling her lifelong dream of starting her own coaching practice with the hope of making a difference in the lives of others.

Kristen is an Indiana native and loves living in Nashville. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications from DePauw University, a Master of Art in Spanish from Middlebury College, an MBA from Loyola University, and a Certified Professional Coaching certification from iPEC, Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching.