Coach, Author and Speaker
Kristi Daniels is a workplace performance expert with 15 years experience in employee engagement, strategic communications, defining organizational and personal mission/vision and values, and improving individual performance. Kristi works with management and human resource teams to develop workplace wellness programs that encourage a healthier lifestyle in the office, boost employee morale and help companies reduce healthcare costs.
Kristi's mission is to help each of her clients find more energy in their day and more zest for life by snapping out of unconscious living, crowding out bad habits with healthy alternatives, and tapping their natural sources of energy.
Kristi is a graduate of Coach University and the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and is certified by the American Association of Drugless Practitioners. She is part of an exclusive group of trainers coached by Jack Canfield, author of the Success Principles and Chicken Soup for the Soul.
Kristi actively serves her community as a member of the board for NORWESCAP in Phillipsburg, NJ and as a volunteer coach for the Career and Life Transition Center for Women in Washington, NJ.
Kristi's Story
Growing up in the Garden State, Kristi was introduced to nutrition at an early age. Her dad would not let her and her sister leave the table until they both cleared their plates of home-grown spaghetti squash and other organic foods from the garden. While Kristi's mom would quietly swap out the chocolate in her "chocolate" chip cookies with carob purchased from the local farming co-op.
Kristi lost her healthy eating sense once she enrolled in college, gained the freshman 15 and entered the workplace.
Formerly, a senior vice president for a global public relations firm based in the nation's capital, Kristi worked 10+ hour days juggling multiple deadlines, attending meetings and serving her high-profile government, corporate and association clients. And somewhere in between the conference calls, meetings, planning and the daily e-mail deluge, she'd find herself caving to the diet destroying food choices in her 200 person office and experiencing one too many energy crashes after each bag of chips or frothy coffee treat. One day she realized that she wasn't living to her potential because she was operating on a diet of caffeine, refined sugar and foods with zero nutrients.
Vigorously determined to halt the "bad food = bad mood and zero productivity" cycle for herself, Kristi dove nose-first into the latest research and dozens of books on nutrition and healthy eating. She earned certifications as a coach, health counselor and yoga teacher, quit her corporate job and launched her own business to sound a wake-up call for others. Her goal is to improve the health and wellbeing of America's workplaces and to help all working women and men Thrive 9 to 5.
