Kristin Cobble

Chief of Meeting Design

and Facilitation

Kristin Cobble has partnered with leaders in strengthening their capacity to create high-performing leadership teams and organizations for 20 years. More recently, she has become interested in applying this expertise to systems that involve multiple organizations and stakeholders. She believes the challenges we face as a species are going to require new ways of thinking, talking, and working together - across disciplines, across values, and across both visible and invisible barriers. Kristin is excited to apply her ability to design and facilitate conversations in which new ways of thinking can emerge as well as to try out new approaches to the public policy and social innovation experiment called Next Agenda.

Kristin is currently an affiliate with The Monitor Institute, the social change consulting practice of the Monitor Group. She spent the previous 4 years at Global Business Network (GBN) and the Monitor Group, helping teaching clients to embrace and take advantage of uncertainty. She also worked on several multiple stakeholder projects on complex issues such as the threat of pandemics and the future of AIDS. Recent clients have included Google.org, the United Nations and the Inter-America Development Bank. Prior to that, she served as the Director of Strategic Change for Banana Republic, partnering with the president to create a high-performing leadership team and a more innovative and collaborative organizational culture. She spent the previous 7 years as the principal of her own consulting firm, where she worked partnered with clients as diverse as Clorox, Genentech, Lowe’s, Hewlett Packard, Ford, and the Singapore Police Force. Prior to that, she was a consultant at Innovation Associates, co-founded by Peter Senge, author of The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization.

Kristin is a graduate of Wellesley College and also studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has authored articles on organizational learning, systems thinking, conflict, and coaching. She has presented several times at the Systems Thinking in Action conferences, as well as the Organizational Development Network conference and the Robert Greenleaf conference on Servant Leadership. She currently sits on the board of Global Footprint Network, an international environmental non-profit whose mission is to enable a future where all people have the opportunity to live satisfying lives within the means of one planet.