Hi! I'm Kristina.
I believe every transition changes us.
Whether we are grieving the death of someone we love, navigating divorce, stepping into leadership, receiving a life-changing diagnosis, or simply finding ourselves in a season we never expected, transitions shape who we become.
My work is centered on helping individuals, organizations, and communities navigate those moments with compassion, connection, and hope. I believe no one should have to move through life's hardest seasons alone.
Speaking, Workshops, & Support
Group Facilitation
I create thoughtful, facilitated spaces where groups can come together to learn, reflect, and engage in meaningful conversation. Whether exploring grief, navigating change, strengthening relationships, or responding to a shared experience, each gathering is designed to make room for both individual reflection and collective learning.
Rather than simply presenting information, I guide conversations that invite curiosity, connection, and the sharing of diverse perspectives and experiences. Together, we create space to better understand where we are, learn from one another, and consider how we want to move forward.
Speaking & Workshops
Speaking to groups and leading workshops is one of my favorite places to be. I create engaging, thoughtful learning experiences that invite participants to explore new ideas, reflect on their own experiences, and leave with practical insights they can carry forward.
Sessions can be tailored to the unique needs of your organization, conference, or community—from grief and life transitions to compassionate leadership, organizational change, and supporting others. Whether you're looking for a keynote, workshop, or multi-session experience, we'll work together to create something meaningful, relevant, and impactful for the people in the room.
Individual Support & Reflective Supervison
I have leaned on many others over the years to receive support and guidance throughout my own personal and professional journey. Today, I look to do the same for others by making space and to be a conduit for processing through transitions. For individuals in a new job, going through a relationship transition, experiencing a loss, or navigating changes in health, together we can work on who you are becoming.
For those who are supporting others, I provide a space to process your work. Helpers need support as well and I am here for those helpers.
Recent Workshops and Talks Provided
Leading with Curosity
Exploring how a trauma-informed mindset for an organization can help to support its leaders, teams, and outcomes. Presented as a 2 1/2 hour workshop.
Managing Change while Protecting Our Greatest Asset
60 minute presentation discussing how change management can be handled without burning out staff and actually building trust.
Living Grief: A Lenten Series
A three week series of one hour sessions, spent discussing what grief is, how we can support ourselves and others, and what other societies are doing to live with grief.
The Grief Beneath the Grief: How Personal Loss Histories are Activated in Times of Collective Trauma
A breakout session designed as educational and reflective for "helpers" who find themselves navigating their own grief while supporting others.
Palliative Care and Hospice 101
Understanding the difference between the term 'Palliative Care" and hospice care while also understanding the importance of advance care planning.
My perspective comes from both professional experience and personal lived experience.
As a registered nurse, nonprofit executive, speaker, and founder, I've spent more than two decades walking alongside people during some of life's most significant transitions. I've worked in hospice and palliative care, community health, nonprofit leadership, and organizational development—supporting individuals, families, teams, and communities through change, growth, grief, and healing.
Long before grief became part of my professional life, it shaped my personal one.
My dad died from leukemia when I was nine years old. Since then, I've experienced the loss of grandparents, godparents, beloved pets, friendships, my marriage, and aspects of my own health after being diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis in my twenties.
None of these experiences define me, but together they have taught me something important:
We are not meant to return to who we were before life's transitions.
We are continually becoming.
Kristina currently serves as the Executive Director of the Minnesota Network of Hospice and Palliative Care, where she works closely with healthcare providers, nonprofit organizations, and community leaders to advance high-quality care and support for individuals facing serious illness, death, and grief. Through this work, she has developed a strong reputation for collaborative leadership, thoughtful problem solving, and bringing diverse stakeholders together around shared goals. Kristina is also the founder of Red Drop Resources, a non-profit organization working to meet the non-medical needs of patients and families battling blood cancers.
Whether I'm facilitating a workshop, supporting a grieving family, helping a nonprofit strengthen its operations, or sitting across from someone trying to make sense of life's next chapter, my hope is always the same:
That people leave feeling seen.
Heard.
Connected.
And reminded that they don't have to navigate change alone.