About Us

Hello & Welcome!

Kristen (Kiki) Wilkinson, is a professional business consultant & leadership coach, helping high-achieving leaders gain confidence and clarity so they can take intentional action to achieve their goals, build resilience, and experience more joy and fulfillment in their lives.

Kiki has over a decade of experience in the Learning & Development (L&D) space. She founded and scaled Airbnb’s internal Trust & Safety (T&S) training teams, programs, systems, and within a high-growth, complex, multi-level, and global environment. She has consulted and coached leaders at dozens of companies from startup stage to globally recognized fortune 500.

Kiki specializes in driving engagement, innovation, growth-mindset, & cross-collaboration, with a bias towards inspired action that mutually serves individuals as well as the collective organization.

Kiki deeply values learning and has a passion for learning about new industries and jumping into new spaces, which has allowed her to quickly get up to speed with the challenges and opportunities in unique verticals and continuously expand her knowledge.

With her unique blend of expertise and experience in Leadership, Learning & Development, Trust & Safety, Project & Program Management, and Scaling Startup businesses, Kiki partners and collaborates with clients across multiple industries and verticals to provide tactical solutions for leaders, and their teams, to reach their full potential while helping them navigate challenges and integrate strategies, tools, and training that cultivate engagement, alignment, collaboration, and resilience.

Why Us?

There are tons of coaches, consultants, training programs, and companies who are supporting individuals & organizations.

Why should you choose Thrive Mind Collaborative?

Everyone is unique, & so are we! Read on to see if we might be a good fit or click the “Let’s Chat” button to schedule time to connect.

 

  • With a degree in Philosophy and additional training & experiences in Psychology, Kiki has always been passionate about creating authentic human connection & supporting others.

    Kiki spent nearly a decade at Airbnb in her early career. As an early employee, Kiki founded & scaled Airbnb’s Trust & Safety Training Team, and launched dozens of successful global programs to support thousands of employees in L&D, Wellness, & Belonging.

    She has a depth of experience and skill working with cross-functional leadership in a complex fast-paced global environment, and has integrated practices to increase resilience and mitigate burnout.

  • As a founding member of the Trust & Safety Team at Airbnb, while massively scaling teams, managing challenging content, and development of Trust & Safety strategy, Kiki has experienced, managed, and supported herself and fellow employees through vicarious stress and burnout by integrating sustainable, resilience-building techniques.

    Kiki puts an emphasis on a human-centric approach to any initiative or project. She cares deeply for the people she works with, and truly gains value through adding value.

    Kiki, herself, has personally experienced and learned from three separate burnout experiences & decided to launch Leadership Coaching as a service in 2022 to support leaders in slowing down to integrate a sustainable mindfulness and growth mindset culture, decreasing change fatigue, stress, and burnout.

  • Kiki is a radical optimist, constant learner, & genuinely gains value from adding value. She is a trailblazer for positive leadership, team culture & cohesion, and diverse collaboration.

    She believes that by creating connect, and with a bias towards intentional action, diverse teams that are able to cultivate a growth-mindset can spark transformational shifts in company culture, innovation, and overall success.

    Clear boundaries for work/life balance, and a cohesive, respectful, and growth-mindset atmosphere that promotes authenticity, innovation, and learning — which she believes is critical to success as a Leader in high-growth, multi-layered, cross-functional, and global organizations.  

  • After over a decade of cross-collaboration & experience managing multi-layered, complex, global organizations, Kiki has curated a diverse network of highly intelligent & magical people from all over the world! If Kiki can’t help you, she probably knows someone who can! Let’s chat about your challenges and, if needed, Kiki can provide connections or custom bespoke services to support you and your organization in the specific areas you need.

 

Company Values

  • Growth Mindset

    As Albert Einstein once said, "Once you stop learning, you start dying."

    We believe that reframing challenges as learning opportunities is a vital skill for individual and team development, engagement, and productivity.

  • Authenticity

    Authenticity builds confidence, cultivates trust, & breeds loyalty.

    We believe in keeping real people at the center of all our goals and fostering authenticity in both individuals and teams to promote belonging, innovation, and engagement.

  • Collaboration

    Collaboration is key, that's why it's part of our name. As teams and departments make connections, individuals naturally increase trust in each other.

    We believe that collaboration is essential for increased trust, alignment, productivity, morale, and mutual success.

  • Compassion

    A number of studies have found that compassion is not only helps to build resilience and improve physical health, but it is also a consistent characteristic of successful and resilient people.

    We believe in building and showing compassion to increase motivation, improve wellbeing, and prime ourselves for achievement.