Kristie Tobias

• Change Management and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion consultant, national speaker and author

Biography

Kristie Tobias is a Change Management and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion consultant, national speaker, and author with a background in Human Resources and Organizational Development. She has close to 20 years of consulting and leadership experience with a primary focus on utility-based organizations and healthcare. She has consulted organizations on topics focused on change management and leadership, diversity, equity, and inclusion, employee engagement, patient and customer experience, leadership development, business optimization and financial improvement.

Through her creation of change leadership curriculum and leadership development workshops, she has provided professional development for thousands of employees and leaders. She excels at bridging communication and relationship gaps at all levels of leadership to create high-performing organizations of effective and proactive change competency, high employee engagement, and reduced turnover results. Kristie is the Lead for Huron’s Black Alliance Strategic Initiatives Committee and Huron’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion program. She prioritizes building inclusive environments within Huron and strategic client partnerships including facilitating Unconscious Bias workshops and trainings and moderating discussions on improving education around health equity and inclusive educational opportunities within historically diverse universities and medical programs.

 Kristie has spent over a decade sharing her struggles with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and believes that everyone deserves to have a voice. As a national speaker, she developed her own brand centered around change leadership and mentorship and released her first book, podcast, and streaming series all of the same name, Fearlessly Made You. She developed Fearlessly Made You as a way to support and walk alongside those who don’t always feel as if their voices have been heard. When Kristie is not inspiring others with her quick wit, charm, and engaging attitude, she is a board member for several non-profit organizations in Pensacola, Florida, an advisor for the Mayor of Pensacola and offers her services as a speaker and business advisor to several non-profits and small businesses. She is a self-proclaimed wine enthusiast, avid cycler, and mother to her dog Cooper.