Kristine Widtfeldt

Kristine Widtfeldt

Chief Marketing Officer, NeuroNova

Utah County, Utah

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Speaker levelProfessional Speaker

Primary sectorsArts, culture & creative industries · Media, marketing & communications · Retail & consumer products

Utah focusNo

About

Kristine Widtfeldt brings energy, positivity, and wit to every presentation. Through workshop-style activities, audience interaction, and real-life case studies, Kristine primes attendees to take action.

For more than 25 years, she has built mission-driven organizations that elevate women and families, from brands in home decor to fashion to memory keeping to performing arts and wellness. She is a sought-after startup consultant and fractional marketing executive and has coached dozens of entrepreneurs to unlock new levels of performance.

She has served as CEO, CXO, CMO, President, and VP of Product and Marketing and shepherded four exits (“two profitable and two painful,” as she often says). She is a vibrant storyteller and weaves the challenges of leadership, communications, and authentic brand building into applicable insights that stick.

She’s most proud of being a wife, mom, daughter, sister, and loyal friend and can achieve anything with an ice-cold Diet Coke.

Read the extended bio

Kristine Widtfeldt is passionate about building mission-driven brands and the people they serve. She loves tackling big problems with smart people and coaching teams to own their top priorities.

For over 25 years, she's been a CEO, CMO, VP, and President of leading brands in consumer goods, business services, and education. Today, she teaches entrepreneurship marketing at Brigham Young University, she's on the board of a venture capital studio and several tech startups, and she is the Chief Marketing Officer at NeuroNova, a wellness device startup poised to transform mental health. She doesn't have much free time, but when she does, she's listening to podcasts while jogging around the streets of her hometown.

Speaking formats

Experience level

Professional Speaker

Frequent / professional speaker (10+ speaking engagements in the last 2–3 years)

Topics & expertise

Communication & Storytelling

  • Communicating with frontline employees
  • Communicating with senior leaders / boards
  • Difficult conversations & feedback
  • Executive presence (online & in-room)
  • Personal brand & visibility
  • Public speaking & presentation skills
  • Storytelling for leaders

Culture/HR & Talent

  • Coaching & mentoring programs
  • Employer brand & employee experience
  • Organizational change & transformation

Entrepreneurship & Startups

  • Building an executive team as a founder
  • Founder mental health & resilience
  • Scaling a startup / growth stage
  • Starting a business

Functional Expertise

  • Communications & PR
  • Marketing & brand strategy
  • Product management / product marketing

Gender & Equity

  • Women in leadership / closing the leadership gap

Industry Expertise

  • Arts, culture & creative industries
  • Media, marketing & communications
  • Retail & consumer products

Leadership & Management

  • Building high-performing teams
  • C-suite readiness
  • Conflict resolution & mediation
  • Difficult conversations
  • Executive leadership
  • Giving & receiving feedback
  • Leading through change
  • People management & coaching

Strategy/Innovation & Change

  • Change management & adoption
  • Customer experience & journey mapping
  • Innovation and intrapreneurship
  • Product strategy & product-market fit
  • Scaling organizations (startup to growth stage)
  • Strategic planning & execution

Wellbeing & Personal Growth

  • Confidence, impostor syndrome & self-advocacy
  • Habit building & personal productivity
  • Mindfulness & stress management
  • Resilience & navigating change
  • Values-based career design
  • Work–life integration

Other

  • Time Management and Productivity, Personal/Team Communication Style Profiling, Startup Branding Basics/Mistakes and Magic, Growth Mindset in Leadership and Bus Dev, Reframing Your Outlook/Building the Optimism Muscle

Signature talks

  • Innovation Through Imperfection (brand building basics; a shorter version I do is called "Make Your Weakness Your Uniqueness")
  • Lead With Less: How To Let Go To Help Them Grow (simplifying leadership, tips to reduce burnout while improving team performance)
  • Put Me In, Coach: Ready To Win (1:1 coaching framework/exercise for leaders of teams—can be taught as a keynote, breakout, or up to 3-hour hands-on workshop)
  • Motivation Mastery: What Moves You, What Moves Them, and How You Move Forward Together (best as workshop, includes team/individual style assessments)
  • The Optimism Edge (includes individual assessment)
  • Interview Hacking: Navigating the Tough Asks to Land The Job (great for entry-level/early career audiences)
  • Top Tips To Creating The Career Of Your Dreams (great for entry-level/early career or student audiences)
  • Empower Yourself (short presentation: designed for <30 minutes)

Selected engagements

  • SAMPLE SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS:
  • Bomb Party Leadership Conference, Keynote Speaker and Workshop Presenter, January 2024
  • UVU Women In Business Impact Lab, Keynote Speaker, March 2024
  • RevRoad Revation Summit, Keynote Speaker, May 2024
  • BYU Sorensen Center for Ethical Leadership, Women's Empowerment Conference, Presenter, April 2025
  • Point of the Mountain Chamber of Commerce, Keynote Speaker, November 2025
  • UVU Business Resource Entrepreneurship Speaker Series, December 2025
  • SAMPLE EMCEEING EVENTS:
  • Kinect Capital, Investors' Choice Summit, Emcee, April 2024
  • WeROC Women Entrepreneurship Pitch Day, UVU/Kinect Capital, Emcee, October 2024
  • Third Thursday at Three Pitch Event, Emcee, November 2024
  • Kinect Capital and Zions Bank, Investors' Choice/Women Entrepreneur Conference, Emcee, September 2025

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