About Me
I’m Kristen Birt.
I work with people and workplaces when something isn't working, but it isn't yet clear why - helping make sense of what's happening before deciding what might genuinely help.
My approach brings together more than 20 years' experience in senior HR and People roles, professional coaching and mentoring, specialist training around neurodivergence, and lived experience of late-identified AuDHD.
Whether I'm working with an individual or a workplace, I bring the same curiosity: understand the person, understand the context, identify what's getting in the way, and then explore what might help.
Lived Experience
Alongside my professional experience and training, I bring lived experience of navigating processing the world differently, fluctuating capacity, and the cumulative impact of spending years adapting to environments that didn't always fit.
That experience isn't something I position as expertise over anyone else. Your experience will be your own.
What it gives me is a deep respect for how much can be happening beneath what other people see - and how easily overwhelm, exhaustion, or inconsistency can be misunderstood when we look only at the surface.
I know the difference it can make when something finally makes sense.
My role isn't to tell you who you are or what you need. It's to help you understand your own experience more clearly.
Professional Experience
My work is grounded in more than 20 years' experience in HR and People roles, alongside professional coaching, mentoring, and ongoing training and supervision.
My experience includes:
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Senior HR and People practice
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Workplace support, inclusion, and change
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Executive coaching and mentoring
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Postgraduate academic mentoring
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ADHD-informed and neuro-affirming coaching
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Group coaching and facilitation
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Learning and development
I completed specialist ADHD-informed coaching through an ICF-accredited academy and continue to work towards ICF accreditation through professional practice, supervision, and development.
My work is coaching, mentoring, and workplace consultancy. I work within clear professional boundaries and will always be open when something requires support outside my scope.
For individuals, that means support grounded in both human understanding and real-world experience. For workplaces, it means I understand both the person and the organisational context in which support needs to work.
How I Work
I don't begin by assuming what the problem is.
Something that looks like motivation might involve capacity. What looks like poor performance might involve an unidentified workplace barrier. Overwhelm might involve cognitive load, sensory demands, nervous system activation, health, environment - or several things interacting.
So we get curious before jumping to solutions.
I draw on my Whole-Person Clarity approach to consider the wider picture - including thinking and attention, senses, nervous system, emotions, body, capacity, and environment.
From there, we can make better-informed decisions about what might genuinely help.
Clarity before intervention. Understanding before assumption. Support that fits the person and the context.