Kris Rodriguez Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

Kris launched her practice to empower leaders and teams to meet key transition and growth periods head-on, while shepherding them through complex change and identifying effective paths forward. The business was rapidly established as a go-to resource for leaders and organizations seeking insightful, human-centered coaching and consulting solutions. Current and past engagements include: • Led change management and senior leadership communications coaching for a large biotech corporation. Guided the significant transformation of their organizational operating model, from adoption of new mindsets and work practices to structural and procedural changes. This was a long term transformational change effort that culminated in a shift of this 4,000-person, 40-year-old organization to becoming more nimble and customer focused in their approach to solving customer and patient needs. • Nine-month coaching engagement with a senior leadership team at a large biotech corporation, guiding them to experiment with new work practices. Resulted in increased team connectivity, improved missional focus and greater overall engagement.• Coaching senior executives at an international pharmaceutical organization to develop a connected global vision for their distributed teams. Results thus far include an increased focus on their teams’ collective contributions and possibilities for what can be achieved together. • Leading organization development and change for a mid-sized biopharmaceutical company. Goal of the work is to transform their workforce strategy into one that incorporates modern approaches to work, yet retains their strong cultural connections leading to greater innovation and employee engagement.• Using an engaging, people-centered leadership development approach to facilitate senior team off-sites for multiple organizations. These sessions connect, inspire and support teams to achieve core objectives, while increasing overall engagement and team effectiveness.

Led all aspects of the HR function for Listen.com, which was acquired by Real Networks in 2003; managed recruitment, benefits and compensation programs. Coached senior leaders and employees through organization change in preparation for successful acquisition.

Lead HR for Excite division working closely with senior executives in support of employee engagement, recruitment and goal achievement. As a member of the senior leadership team coached leaders during industry down-turn to mitigate employee impact and ultimately initiate a wind-down of the division.

Established and led all aspects of the HR function for Real Time Solutions including recruitment, benefits, compensation, employee relations and engagement. Established HR as a credible and people-oriented function, balancing the needs of the company and the employees by establishing rapport, building trust and effectively supporting the achievement of organization goals.

Part of the dynamic HR team that transitioned the company from start-up to Wall Street market-maker, growing the company over 200% in three years. Provided coaching to managers and employees on hiring and people issues, and supported organization change through a significant business model shift after the initial product offering proved too early for the market to bear. Recruitment efforts resulted in the hiring of industry leaders, who would go on to create technologies we utilize everyday.

Recruited as a recent high school graduate by this major hi-tech corporation to coordinate the recruitment and relocation of new employees and transplants from corporate headquarters on the East Coast into four research centers based in Palo Alto, CA. Work supported a significant effort to reinvent this software and hardware giant, which was ultimately acquired and graduated technologists who would later contribute to major consumer technology advances.

Master Of Science, Organization Development (Msod)

Bachelor Of Science, Business Administration And Management