- Location: Toronto, Canada
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Kristen Cordell
I work with clients as they seek alignment between their outer and inner dimensions. I really love helping people move between two stages of life and expand their understanding of self and the world.
My clients are often on the precipitous end of a big transition or potentially stuck just before one. Often they are moving between public service and ‘what’s next’. My clients are purpose driven and motivated by a deep sense of service to the collective.
I’ve helped a number of clients move from public sector work to meaningful roles in new industries. By helping them identify their values, clarify their vision and align behind a strategy for moving into what is next — amazing opportunities often arise!
I love to work with clients at key moments of transitions.
I find values work to be the foundation of a thoughtful coaching experience. I also rely on somatics – or felt sensations to shed light on our experience when we are stuck. I am also a trained breathwork facilitator and reiki master and rely on these tools as well as my intuition when appropriate.
I have always been driven to service and giving back. My passion for diplomacy took me around the world from Kinshasa to Kabul and back. But it also exhausted me and consistently fell short of what I value. I realized in 2021 the inherent link between our inner condition and what we are able to accomplish externally (including through public service). Since then, I’ve come to see service not what we do, but who we are — a sacred embodiment of our aspirations for the world.
In 2025, I established the Coaching Collaborative, which went on to mobilize over 20,000 hours of pro bono coaching for displaced civil servants. Through that process, I became aware of how closely linked identity and work become for purpose driven leaders.
“It’s not every day that someone says something that makes me feel genuinely encouraged. Most of my life, I have had to put my feelings of self-doubt aside and carry on trying. Your comparison to something familiar, which we all had to overcome, shifted my mindset.”
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I am an aspiring author, AI strategist and lover of travel. When not working you can find me biking through Toronto, hiking with my daughter or trying a new restaurant. I indulge my curiosity and need for movement!
I won’t do the work for my clients. I own my part of the work and discovery and tend to not be a good fit for passive clients looking for quick answers or surface level dialogue.
I have 15+ years of public sector experience, including roles at the White House and US Department of State.
I am an IFC ACC accredited coach
I have a Masters in Business, Fletcher School, Tufts University.
I am a Council on Foreign Relations Life Member and member of several non profit boards.
I am trained as a Breathwork facilitator.