The Experience Behind the Perspective

Kristy's understanding of high performance began in one of the most competitive business environments: the disruptive medical device industry. Over 15 years, she built multimillion-dollar businesses, led award-winning teams, and worked alongside some of the industry's top-performing professionals in companies like Intuitive Surgical, Hologic and J&J. She experienced firsthand the demands of ambitious goals, consequential decisions, relentless expectations, and the personal responsibility that accompanies leadership.

For the past nine years, she has brought that experience along with her continual advanced training in high performance, mindfulness and leadership into her private coaching and advisory practice, working alongside accomplished individuals navigating greater complexity, expanding opportunities, and pivotal moments in their careers and lives.

Her approach combines strategic insight with a deep understanding of human behavior, emotional regulation, mindfulness, and the systems that support sustained performance. Known for her ability to see beyond the obvious, Kristy helps clients recognize patterns, challenge assumptions, and uncover the often-invisible factors influencing their decisions, behaviors, and results.

Her work is deeply personal, highly strategic, and grounded in the realities of operating where the stakes are high.

A Different Definition of Success

Kristy believes that one of the greatest limitations facing accomplished people is the assumption that reaching the next level requires more effort, more sacrifice, or more of the same strategies that brought them this far.

Often, the greatest opportunity lies in what can be removed. The mental noise. The automatic reactions. The competing priorities. The patterns and pressures that quietly consume capacity.

By creating greater awareness and strengthening the ability to respond intentionally, individuals gain access to greater clarity, confidence, energy, and choice.

Because the ultimate measure of success extends beyond what we achieve. It includes who we become, the quality of our relationships, the freedom we experience, and our ability to be fully present for the lives we're creating.

A Commitment That Extends Beyond Business

Kristy is the host of the Keep Rising with Kristy Kuhl podcast and founder of Success UNLEASHED, bringing together influential voices in business, leadership, performance, health, and personal growth to explore new perspectives and possibilities.

Service has also remained a defining part of her life.

A lifelong animal advocate, Kristy has fostered and helped rehabilitate more than 500 dogs. Today, she and her certified therapy dog, Millie, continue that commitment through visits with individuals and families in hospice and long-term care.

Across every dimension of her work and life, Kristy is guided by a belief that human beings possess far more capacity than they consistently access, and that helping someone discover it can change the trajectory of their life.