About
Brio Leadership helps individuals and teams incorporate spiritual intelligence into their workplaces and live lives of integrity, meaning and fulfillment. In this way, we can each experience a direct connection to the Divine in our daily work.
Incorporating spiritual intelligence into the workplace is a call to bring our highest selves to work, everyday. It is an imperative to derive meaning from our work, to seek a constant connection with the divine self within us, and to do work that we love. According to Stephen R. Covey, “Spiritual intelligence represents our drive for meaning and connection with the infinite.” (from The Eighth Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness, page 53). Spiritual intelligence does not mean that we practice religion at work, or that we express or force our religious views on others in the workplace. Spiritual intelligence transcends religion - or better, it is the bedrock of religion. Spiritual intelligence incorporates these elements:
- Values - both individual and group
- Integrity
- Living consciously
- Working to your strengths
- Honoring the different strengths and viewpoints of others
- Creating covenants of behavior for optimal teamwork and productivity
- Balancing the pillars of an integrated life - physical, emotional, social, intellectual and spiritual elements
- Recognizing that what you think about comes about
- Recognizing that we are co-creators of our reality with the Divinity that dwells within us
- Speaking our truth in love
- Realizing that our truth is just that - ours. Others have their own truth and perspective
Spiritual intelligence in the workplace is not just a feel-good, touchy-feely concept. The elements listed above have been proven to create more effective work teams, higher productivity, and increased profits. In the 21st century, we must recognize that in order to compete in a global economy, our workers must bring their whole selves to work, be engaged in what they do and know that they are making a difference. Only then will our human capital maximize its contribution margin to the enterprise’s bottom line.
About Kristin Robertson
Hi! I’m Kristin Robertson, the founder of Brio Leadership. I teach spiritual intelligence in the workplace as a way to positively transform the lives 
of individuals and teams, and to create highly productive work environments. I look forward to working with you on this quest.
I have enjoyed several careers in my life, and especially enjoy re-inventing myself, which I’ve done several times in my professional life. I began my career as a classical musician, playing viola after college as a free-lance musician in Boston, Massachusetts. I reinvented myself in my mid-twenties by studying to become a computer programmer, which developed into my love for customer service in a technical environment. I advanced my career as a technical customer services and support manager and executive in working for both software companies and large financial services corporations. Then I became seriously ill. I contracted shingles, a stress-related disease, and developed other complications that motivated me to resign from my corporate job. Eventually, I started KR Consulting, a consulting and training firm focused on the technical services industry.
After almost ten years of running KR Consulting, I felt a calling to teach subjects beyond customer service and process management, which had been my specialty for the past twenty-something years. I wanted to teach material that could deeply transform lives. That’s when I stumbled into creating Brio Leadership. Actually, it was more like I was drawn kicking and screaming into what I had to do - I felt a lot of resistance and fear about creating this business! And here I am, trembling with excitement to get this endeavor underway.
I am an ordinary person. I have a husband, two teenaged children and a dog. In addition to founding KR Consulting, I was involved in starting a Unitarian-Universalist church in my area of Texas, USA and have devoted many hours to that labor of love over the past five years. I love to walk or hike, garden and read. I love to be with my husband and kids (who are three of my best friends ever) and to spend time with my other dear friends. I love to entertain because that draws friends into my home for wonderful conversations. I love to see the spiritual connections in everyday life. I give thanks for all that is my life and for the many lessons I have learned as well as the bountiful blessings I have received.
Whatever path you are on, I honor you for stopping by this website. I wish you many blessings on your path. May you be an everyday mystic and a light that illuminates the path for others.
