Kristin Salada

Kristin Salada is a leadership consultant, conference emcee, facilitator, and narrator whose career has centered on communication, teamwork, and meaningful human connection. For more than 20 years, she has led New Angle Consulting, helping organizations strengthen leadership teams, improve communication, build trust, and create more effective workplace cultures. She also operates Kristin Salada.com, where she combines conference emceeing, experiential event design, team facilitation, and non-fiction audiobook narration. Her approach focuses on creating professional experiences that actively engage people rather than simply asking them to sit and listen.

Kristin's work spans leadership development, executive off-sites, conferences, and experiential learning programs. She has facilitated and supported leaders from organizations including Microsoft, athenahealth, Dunkin’ Brands, Ferrara, and Denver Public Schools, and she serves as a lead facilitator and live announcer for the University of New Hampshire's annual Leadership Development Conference. As an emcee, Kristin brings energy, warmth, professionalism, and the ability to read a room, helping audiences remain engaged while smoothly navigating transitions and unexpected changes. She has also expanded her expertise through Personify Leadership training and professional emcee training with Emcee Directory, while continuing her work as a business and leadership audiobook narrator.

Kristin holds a BS in Communication Studies and Spanish from Northwestern University and an MSM in Organizational Communication and Training from the University of Denver's Daniels College of Business. Her early experience as an outdoor experiential guide helped shape her belief that people learn and connect most effectively through participation and shared experiences. Today, she remains passionate about designing environments where leaders and teams can build stronger relationships, communicate openly, and feel genuinely connected. Through consulting, facilitation, emceeing, and narration, Kristin brings together strategic thinking, storytelling, and human-centered communication to help organizations create experiences that draw people in and bring them together.