Heidi Kraft, Executive and Organizational Coach & Consultant, Founder of Kraft Your Success – a coaching and consulting group that helps leaders to create organizations, teams and leaders of the future (and now!) that thrive in the new world of work.
We partner with high growth companies and teams to create the quick results and sustainable futures that are needed to thrive in the interconnected, fast moving and sometimes chaotic world.
Heidi Kraft combines her solid business experience with her passion to help her clients enhance the leadership skills and behaviors that improve performance and fulfillment in their work. Her role as team coach, facilitator/trainer helps teams work better to foster the kind of professional fulfillment that leads to healthy, creative and dynamic workplaces.
Heidi’s clients include Google, Facebook, Walmart, Airbnb, Microsoft, Novartis, Havas, Eleven Inc, Burning Man, Universal McCann, Electronic Arts, Nationwide Insurance and more. She specializes in the areas of sales, marketing and advertising, although she works with individuals in multiple sectors and industries such as technology, pharmaceuticals, finance, insurance and consulting.
Prior to becoming an executive coach, Heidi spent nearly two decades building a media strategy career in advertising agencies, culminating as a Senior VP, Group Media Director working on leading brands such as Microsoft, Intel and Intuit.
Having worked in the competitive and fast paced advertising industry, Heidi understands the demands, complexities and challenges that executives are faced with in today’s ever-changing business environment. She is masterful at helping her clients navigate the multi-faceted business realm in a way that leverages their unique style and desired leadership impact.
Heidi is highly recommended for her insightful, intuitive and action-oriented approach. She balances her natural flair for bringing creativity, innovation and fun to her process with her pragmatism and ability to enable quick results through accountability.
Heidi holds a BA in Sociology, is a certified professional coach (CPCC), a graduate of Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching and CTI’s Co-active Leadership program. She has additional training in the Hogan, PDPWorks, Tilt, Team Coaching International, Enneagram, New Ventures West, Brain-based coaching and is familiar with MBTI, DISC and many other tools and trainings.
Recently, Heidi earned the prestigious designation of Conversational Intelligence (C-IQ) Certified Coach. She is one of only 200 coaches world-wide who has earned C-IQ Certified Coach in the inaugural program.
Heidi is also the Education Chair for the Bay Area Advertising Relief Committee (BAAARC) where she has created and led the Bay Area industry’s first mentoring program in the advertising industry – graduating 200+ advertising professionals within a 5 year time period.