Hello,
I'm Kalinda.
Nice to meet you.
On a Mission to Disrupt the Status Quo? In Need of a Breakthrough?
As a sought after strategist, I’ve worked with brands and businesses across industries to help them see and realize more. If talent is tapped out or your team is stretched, I understand. I’m here to help open space for new thinking, to navigate unique and varied circumstances including the unprecedented and the unpredictable. Together we can workshop your team, find new approaches and opportunities, connect the dots and craft a plan to focus, ignite momentum so you can move forward with confidence.
Gain valuable insights to drive your business growth by breaking stuck patterns and improving your strategic thinking skills.
What I do.
I collaborate with business leaders in start-ups, established brands and non-profits that need a trusted expert who understands their challenges. Together we uncover intangibles, generate and integrate new ways of thinking and develop pathways in order to gain clarity, align and deliver. Learn more
Strategy sessions
Are you clear on what you need to do, but how you get there is vague? Are you executing tactics, but not seeing the progress you desire? Unsure where to focus? During our strategy session, I’ll help you develop a framework to sort it all out so you can move decisively, positioned in strength and clarity on a path to sustainable growth.
Team workshops
You’ve got a great team. As a creative thought partner you can trust, I’ll bring an unbiased, fresh perspective to your challenge at hand. As a facilitator, I’ll tap into and draw out diverse viewpoints and talents within your team. We’ll break through the internal merry-go-round of dialogue and iterate until new ground is broken. I’ll guide you through the haze to refocus so you can push off or reboot and move forward with renewed energy and optimism.
Blog
I share with you in my blog insights and lessons learned from a range of diverse of experiences. You’ll find ideas from unexpected places to stimulate and challenge thinking patterns. I’ll share observations and predictions on emerging trends and connections I see to inspire you and ignite your imagination and creativity.
Ten Reasons You Need
A Strategist.
You want change and progress. Strategy is more than devising a plan. Strategy is crafted. It is both an art and a science. A strategist will help open space for new thinking to thrive. Here is a list of how a strategist can be a catalyst to your process and growth.
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Learn What a Strategist Can Do for You.
Pursuing strategic objectives are vital to the success of your organization’s future and team alignment. While you focus on the day to day, an external strategist can be a partner and catalyst.
Client testimonials.
Throughout my career the success I enjoyed was having the luxury of being surrounded by competent people who shared a passion to be the best. Kalinda would have been a welcome addition on any of the Teams I played. Kalinda has been a valuable asset on projects that are very important to me. She is a synthesizer and skilled lateral business thinker that brings a commercial sense, heart and integrity when creating and developing strategies to face big challenges and opportunities.
Mark Messier
Entrepreneur & Investor, fmr professional hockey player, Captain of three NHL teams, Six-time Stanley Cup Winner
I’ve had the good fortune to work with the best brand strategists in the world, I am confident to say that Kalinda ranks among them in her ability to deconstruct a brand challenge and re-construct a masterful, powerful and world-class brand/marketing strategy. Her hyper-collaborative nature, ability to wrangle unique and varying executive perspectives, find the magic under rocks and lead a team down the winning path is unmatched. My only regret is that I wish I met her sooner, I highly recommend her for any brand or marketing challenge on the planet.
Paul Marobella
Fmr. CEO, Havas & Partner/CEO, Game Seven Ventures
As a young professional working in an environment resistant to change, Kalinda modeled for me how to make the seemingly impossible come true. She built relationships with my organization's leadership who were simply not interested in new ideas and gained their buy-in to create a new program. She built political capital and listened to everyone, no matter how small a role they played. Her people skills, strategic thinking, stakeholder engagement, and positive energy allowed us to tackle any obstacle that got in the way and it resulted in a hugely successful program, far greater than I allowed myself to hope for in the beginning.
Joan Moon
Senior Consultant | Deloitte Head of Negotiation Coaching | Kennedy School Negotiation Project | Harvard Kennedy School Negotiation Coach and Consultant | Moon Negotiation
It has been a pure joy to work with Kalinda as she helped guide the transformation of our non-profit youth cycling organization. Her innovation, creativity and business planning expertise have helped us shape our new direction at a very quick pace as we grow and evolve. A fast moving, entrepreneurial change agent with a keen eye to brand and marketing development, Kalinda is also a relationship builder with a strong human side in managing a team and process. Her vision, diplomacy and innovative approach to organizational development applies to issues that arise in both the non-profit and for-profit worlds.
Patricia Gallery
Board President, Trips for Kids National
Brands I’ve Worked With.
