Kristine Sargsyan is a professor of Business Communication in American University of Armenia. She is a public speaking coach and an organizational development consultant. She brings together more than 20 years of coaching and consulting experience in NGO and private sectors. Kristine crafted several organizational development (OD) tools and also established a small OD library for local professionals during her career path. Previously Sargsyan worked for TACIS, World Learning, USDA, Unicef, UNDP, CoE, Eurasia Partnership Foundation, Caritas Armenia, Real Medicine Foundation and TED. With a background in foreign languages, Sargsyan obtained MBA from CMU.
She is the founder and licensee of TEDxYerevan conference in Armenia.
She also developed a personal growth coaching program through impactful speaking – called “Think” and used it to coach high ranked state officials and dozens of Silicon Valley startup leaders. In 2010 Sargsyan became an International Visitor Leadership Program fellow – US Department of State Program.
Kristine is also a TED OTP Project fellow and TED Global Participant.
Kristine is also the author of a book called “Tracing My Brain” for kids, parents and educators.