Founder of Kristen Cullen, LLC and creator of The Remarkable Resilience series — transformational programs that help individuals and businesses rise above adversity and step boldly into their purpose.
Most people arrive here in the middle of something. A pivot they did not plan. A business that has outgrown the way they talk about it. Or the quiet sense that how they are known no longer matches who they have become.
That is the work — whether it starts with the person or with the brand. And it starts with one conversation.
A certified personal and business coach, brand strategist, and sought-after speaker, Kristen has spent more than fifteen years partnering with hundreds of entrepreneurs, executives, and organizations around the world.
Her client roster spans NYT bestselling authors, 8-figure entrepreneurs, award-winning attorneys, physicians, wellness experts, and internationally recognized influential speakers. Whether guiding a first-time founder or relaunching an established name, she pairs strategic precision with deeply human insight — helping clients clarify their expertise, own their story, and build a brand that resonates and adapts.
Book a Clarity CallI truly can't put into words — and I am usually pretty good with words — what working with Kristen has done for my life.
I found myself again through my partnership with Kristen. I could never have created Unshackled Woman without her partnership, her friendship, and her support.
One conversation, no cost. Tell me where you are and where you want to be — and let's get clear on what comes next.
Book a Clarity CallFounder of Kristen Cullen, LLC and creator of The Remarkable Resilience series — transformational programs that help individuals and businesses rise above adversity and step boldly into their purpose.
A certified personal and business coach, brand strategist, and sought-after speaker, Kristen has spent more than fifteen years partnering with hundreds of entrepreneurs, executives, and organizations around the world.
Her client roster spans NYT bestselling authors, 8-figure entrepreneurs, award-winning attorneys, physicians, wellness experts, and internationally recognized influential speakers. Whether guiding a first-time founder or relaunching an established name, she pairs strategic precision with deeply human insight — helping clients clarify their expertise, own their story, and build a brand that resonates and adapts.
A personal brand that evolves with you — through pivots, setbacks, and reinvention.
Kristen speaks and writes on the power of resilience — the refusal to give up on yourself, your faith, your goals, or the people beside you. Drawing from her own remarkable journey, she helps others move through struggle into a life of mission and meaningful service. She is currently at work on her first book.
Kristen's work extends well beyond the boardroom. She founded a cancer advocacy program advancing patient-centered care nationwide, and co-founded the Barbara Ann Karmanos / Niall P. Cullen Gastrointestinal Cancer Immunotherapy Program. A heart for service sits at the center of everything she builds.
Rooted in the warmth of Naples, Florida, Kristen lives a life she genuinely loves alongside her partner and best friend, Brian — together, avid world travelers and devoted health and longevity enthusiasts. She is the proud mother of three purpose-driven young adults, Aidan, Declan, and Taryn Rose, and a joyful first-time "YiaYia" to her granddaughter, Emerson Rose.
Eleven has always been my number. Since childhood.
It shows up everywhere. Jersey numbers. The pulled ticket at the deli counter and the DMV. My birthday. My elopement. My wedding anniversary. Hotel room numbers. My lucky number playing games, choosing horses, and — on the rare occasion — playing roulette.
Always eleven.
We usually get to see what people are about through their work — how they serve, what they bring to the table, the impact they make. The look behind the woman matters just as much. It is how we relate, connect, and build trust.
I believe we are all here for a purpose. That we are born into this world to make an undeniable mark. We get to choose how.
Two bodies of work, one foundation — Remarkable Resilience builds the person, and The Resilient Brand builds how the world comes to know them.
Uncover your strengths, clarify your expertise, and build a brand identity that holds its shape as your life and your business change. Choose the container that fits the season you are in — privately, over time, or alongside your team.
A concentrated one-to-one immersion and the fast track to the finished thing. Deep discovery, brand narrative, strategy and framework — all built on your own story and what makes you unmistakable. Every note is taken for you, so you are never documenting instead of thinking.
Private sessions across a full year, for founders and leaders who want Kristen in their corner while the work is actually being built. This is where intensive clients continue — and a strong starting point on its own.
The firm version of The Resilient Brand. A customized intensive built around one company — its business brand, its leadership, and how each person in the room builds a brand distinguishable enough to be chosen, that co-brands with the company instead of competing against it. Run closer to a retreat than a boardroom: live, unhurried, and built for people to actually learn in.
Investment is discussed on a Clarity Call. In-person intensives carry additional travel expenses, whether you travel to Naples or Kristen travels to you.
The series of programs built from Kristen's own story — resilience and the power of never giving up on yourself, your faith, your goals, or others.
The foundational program, and the one everything else in this work grows from. Two days on what you have been carrying — shame, worth, forgiveness, and the mindset you never chose — and what becomes possible once you put it down. The full framework, applied to your own life rather than described from a stage.
The framework applied to the life two people are building together. It starts with whatever the individual work surfaced and left unfinished between you, then moves into the part most couples never sit down and do: designing what comes next, in real detail, on terms you get to choose together. Done side by side in Naples, with the trip opening out into a proper getaway rather than a workshop you fly home from.
An adjusted version of Remarkable Resilience, customized for a younger person stepping into their own life — purpose, identity, and resilience built before the first real setback arrives rather than after it.
Investment is discussed on a Clarity Call. In-person programs carry additional travel expenses, whether you come to Naples or Kristen travels to you.
Not sure which is the right fit? That is exactly what the free call is for.
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What does Kristen speak about — and how can she inform and impact your audience?
Kristen speaks and writes on resilience and the power of never giving up — on yourself, your faith, your goals, or others. Using her own story of ongoing remarkable resilience, she helps audiences rise above their struggles and step into a life on a mission.
Talks are shaped to the room. Below are the themes she is most often asked for.
The interior work — shame, worth, forgiveness and mindset. Naming what you have been carrying, and putting it down.
Second chapters, reinvention, and aging — why a life is a sequence of seasons rather than one identity interrupted by emergencies, and how to choose what each season teaches you.
How to build a brand that survives change and gets stronger for it — for anyone whose life has moved faster than their brand.
For real estate, law, mortgage and financial services firms, where a dozen producers look identical on paper — and differentiation is the only protection when the market turns.
Full bio, signature keynotes, testimonials, media, and fee schedule — everything an event team needs in one PDF.
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The questions that come up most — about the programs, what they cost, what is confidential, and what happens if a date has to move. If yours is not here, ask it directly.
The questions that come before anything is booked.
One builds the person. The other builds how the world comes to know them.
Remarkable Resilience is interior work — shame, worth, forgiveness, and the mindset you never chose — and what becomes possible once you put it down. The Resilient Brand is strategy: your strengths, your expertise, and a brand identity that holds its shape while your life and your business change around it.
Plenty of people do both. Plenty do one.
No. They are separate bodies of work and either one is a real place to start.
What is worth knowing: brand work has a way of surfacing personal questions. People arrive to build a brand and find they are actually deciding who they are now. When that happens, the other program is there.
No, and this matters enough to say plainly.
Kristen is not a licensed therapist, counselor, psychologist or clinician, and none of this work is treatment for a mental health condition. It is mentorship and strategy — built from her own story and applied to yours.
It sits alongside therapy well, and a number of clients do both. If something surfaces in the work that belongs with a clinician, Kristen will tell you so rather than work around it.
Yes. Every program is delivered virtually by Zoom, and in-person work happens either in Naples, Florida or at a location you choose.
In-person programs carry travel expenses on top of the program itself, whichever direction the travel runs.
That is exactly what the Clarity Call is for, and it is a common place to land. The programs are described by what they are; which one fits depends on where you are, and that is a conversation rather than a page.
The way into all of it, and the thing most people want to know the shape of before they book it.
Yes. No charge, no obligation, and nothing to cancel afterward.
It is a conversation about what you are trying to do and whether Kristen is the right person to help you do it.
Sometimes the answer to that is no — the timing is wrong, or what you need is something else, or someone else is a better fit. She will say so. An hour spent finding that out is a good hour.
Nothing prepared. Bring the situation as it actually is rather than a tidied version of it, and expect to talk for up to an hour.
What it costs, why that is not printed on the site, how it is billed, and what sits on top of it.
Because the honest answer to what does it cost is it depends what you need, and a number on a page cannot say that.
Programs differ in format, length, cadence and location. A virtual engagement and a two-day intensive at your office are not the same piece of work, and quoting one figure for both would mean one of you is being told something untrue. Investment is discussed on the Clarity Call, once it is clear what is actually being built.
The one exception is speaking: the Speaker Kit carries a full fee schedule, because event teams work to a budget before they ever make contact.
Intensives are paid in full before the program begins — either in one payment, or fifty percent to secure your dates with the balance due before the first day.
If an installment plan would make the difference, ask. Those are arranged individually rather than offered as a standard option, and there is one fixed rule: the final installment has to be paid before the intensive begins.
Ongoing sessions — weekly, bi-weekly or monthly — run as a twelve-month engagement, billed as a recurring charge to the card on file. It runs automatically on the first of each month.
Said plainly because it is better known before than after: there is no monthly invoice to approve. The charge runs on its own.
In-person programs carry travel expenses in addition to the program fee — flights, ground transport and accommodation — whether you come to Naples or Kristen travels to you.
These are billed at cost rather than marked up, estimated before you commit so there are no surprises, and reconciled against receipts afterward.
An intensive holds two consecutive days of Kristen's calendar. These are the terms attached to that, stated before you book rather than after.
Four to eight weeks is ideal. An intensive blocks two consecutive days — or four consecutive four-hour days — and that much of a calendar is easier to hold open with some notice.
That said, it is a guide rather than a rule. If the schedules happen to line up, sooner works, and so does considerably later. Ask for the dates you actually want.
Fifty percent secures your dates, with the balance due before the program begins. Some clients prefer to pay in full up front instead.
The deposit is refundable up to thirty days before the first day. Inside thirty days it is not, because those days are held for you and cannot realistically be filled again at that notice.
Dates can be moved once at no charge with at least fourteen days' notice, to the next dates that work for both of you.
Life does not always give fourteen days. If something serious happens, say so — this is a business built on resilience and it is not run unkindly.
It is rare, and when it happens your program moves to a date the two of you agree on rather than being refunded. The work is not canceled — it is rescheduled.
What happens to what you say, and to what you type into the contact form.
Yes. What is said in a session stays in the session.
Nothing from your program documents, your Brand Blueprint or your intake answers is shared, quoted or used as an example — not with other clients, not from a stage, not in marketing.
Not without asking you first, every time.
Everyone named on the client page agreed to be there. If Kristen ever wants to reference your work, she asks, and no is a complete answer that changes nothing about how you are treated.
It reaches Kristen and nobody else. It is not sold, not shared with any third party, and not used for anything other than replying to you and arranging the work you asked about.
No. Contacting Kristen adds you to a mailing list for exactly nothing. If there is ever a list worth joining you will be asked to join it deliberately.
The firm intensive — and the question every participant in that room is privately asking.
No.
The Resilient Firm Blueprint contains a page per participant covering that person's brand — their positioning, their differentiation, and a professional bio written by Kristen. That is what leadership receives.
What anyone says about their own life in that room stays in that room. The workbook each participant completes is theirs, and they keep it. A session where people are managing what gets back to management is not a session worth running.
Five is the minimum, and it is a real one rather than a pricing floor. Below five the room stops working — the value of the format is people hearing how a colleague who sells the identical thing describes themselves differently, and that needs a room.
A smaller team is usually better served by individual work.
No. It runs as two consecutive days of up to eight hours, or four consecutive four-hour days for teams who cannot lose two whole days.
Four half-days is the accommodation. One day is not a shorter version of this program; it is a different and worse one.
Yes, and it is the strongest version of it. The Resilient Firm keynote delivered at a kickoff or annual meeting, with the intensive following for the people who are going to do the work.
Two programs with conditions attached, and the reasons for them.
Yes. Both partners complete Remarkable Resilience individually before the couples program.
The couples work starts with whatever the individual work surfaced and left unfinished between you — which means there has to be individual work for it to start from. Package options are available when the programs are booked together.
Then it is not the right time for the couples program, and that is worth saying rather than working around. One person can absolutely do the individual program alone, and often that is where the answer to this question comes from.
That the program happened, and that is the honest answer.
An eighteen-to-twenty-five-year-old is the client, and the same confidentiality that covers every other client covers them. What is discussed inside the program belongs to them.
It is worth knowing that this is what makes it work. A young adult who suspects the session is being reported home will give you a polite version of themselves for two days and nothing will change.
For event teams, program committees and podcast producers.
The Speaker Kit carries the full fee schedule, by format. It is the one place on this site where figures are published, because event teams are working to a budget before they ever reach out.
Keynote, workshop, panel, fireside, corporate retreat and podcast guest. Talks are shaped to the room rather than delivered off a shelf.
Yes, and it is encouraged — recording rights are included, and a copy of the footage afterward is appreciated rather than required.
Commercial resale of the recording is the one thing that needs agreeing separately.
Program committees generally work six to twelve months ahead, so earlier is better. That said, dates open up late more often than people expect — if yours is sooner than that, ask anyway.
Ten percent of a referred client's first program fee. The parts people ask about most.
Anyone over eighteen who can lawfully be paid where they live and knows the work well enough to describe it honestly. No audience, newsletter or following of any size is required.
Because of their rules, not Kristen's.
Most state bars restrict or prohibit attorneys sharing fees for client referrals. Federal anti-kickback rules cover referral compensation for physicians and other healthcare providers. Financial advisors and licensed insurance professionals face similar restrictions from their own regulators.
The exclusion protects a license that took years to earn. Referrals from these professions are still enormously welcome — they simply cannot be paid ones.
The client names you. There is a Who referred you? field on the contact form, and that is what creates the credit.
This is deliberate rather than a shortcut. The path from first contact to signed program runs through a call and then an invoice, sometimes weeks apart — long enough that a tracking cookie would expire, credit the wrong person, or credit nobody at all. So tell the people you refer to put your name in that field.
Ten percent of the first program fee, once that fee has cleared in full, by bank transfer within thirty days of that date.
A signed agreement and a completed W-9 have to be back before any commission is paid. Commission is calculated on the fee actually received — net of any discount, and after any refund.
No. It is ten percent of the first program fee, paid once, per new client. Renewals, ongoing monthly sessions and later programs do not carry commission, and neither do travel or reimbursed expenses.
Nothing here is a substitute for asking. If your question is not on this page, or the answer raised another one, put it on the contact form or bring it to a Clarity Call — there is no charge for either and no obligation attached to the second.
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Contact UsStrategic. Precise. Transformational. Their words, not hers.
I truly can't put into words — and I am usually pretty good with words — what working with Kristen has done for my life.
If you need help with personal branding and monetizing your reputation, Kristen is your choice — for the expertise and for the care she brings to every part of it.
I found myself again through my partnership with Kristen. I could never have created Unshackled Woman without her partnership, her friendship, and her support.
Kristen is a determined and committed warrior in the fight against cancer. She has been instrumental in helping us found The Karmanos Immunotherapy Program for GI Cancers … Her efforts are directly responsible for raising our initial funding.
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Book a Clarity CallFounders and authors, a record-breaking mountaineer and a court-appointed receiver, people who rebuild businesses and people who rebuild lives. Between them, Kristen's clients cover most of what anyone ever asks her for. If one of them is who you actually need, tell them she sent you.
The people Kristen sends someone to when the body, or the history, or what happened last year is the thing in the way.
Women's Health & Metabolic Health
A nurse practitioner who became one of the most-heard voices in women's metabolic health — her two TEDx talks have passed fifteen million views between them. She works with women through perimenopause and menopause on nutrition and intermittent fasting, wrote Intermittent Fasting Transformation and The Menopause Gut, and hosts the Everyday Wellness Podcast. Send her the woman who has been told her symptoms are simply her age.
Mountaineering & Resilience
A Guinness World Record mountaineer, a keynote speaker, and a mother of seven. In 2023 Jenn became the first woman to climb the Seven Second Summits — the second-highest peak on every continent — more than thirty summits in five years, K2 among them. She started climbing after a near-fatal car accident in 2018. She wrote BreakProof, speaks on leadership under pressure, and still takes people up mountains, in Park City and on Kilimanjaro. For the room that needs to hear what resilience looks like from someone who has been tested at altitude.
Recovery & Personal Transformation
Adam coaches entrepreneurs and leaders through the kind of change that does not come from working harder — his own line is that lasting change is about going deeper rather than pushing harder. He wrote Lotsaholic, the recovery memoir Steve-O credits with making sobriety look genuinely appealing, and runs The Hero’s Journey. Tony Robbins calls him “a dear friend and my little brother.” For the high performer whose success and private life have stopped matching.
Trauma Recovery & Self-Empowerment
Shellie mentors women out of the aftermath of abuse and back into their own authority. Her program is called Unshackled Woman, and it is action rather than talk — deliberately not therapy. She works often with women inside faith communities and is unafraid to name how scripture gets used to keep them small. The person to call when someone has left the situation and does not yet know who she is without it.
Alternative Medicine & Community
An awareness and enrichment catalyst — her own phrase, and it earns its keep. After twenty-five years in entrepreneurship, start-ups, finance and real estate investing, Heather followed a deeper calling into the study of inner consciousness; a decade of that became Elevating Perspectives, which helps people cut through the noise of modern life and navigate their own map of consciousness on their own terms. She travels to learn from leading practitioners in consciousness, healing modalities and Human Design, and lives in Naples with her husband Tim and their three daughters. For the person who has done well by every external measure and has started asking a different question.
Founders, advisers and the specialists who are called when the numbers, the structure or the people stop working.
Business Strategy & Performance
April calls herself the business adviser you would like to have a beer with, which rather undersells the rest of it: she started as a real estate investor at nineteen and has since advised everything from startups to billion-dollar companies. Her podcast, PivotMe, is billed as a zero-B.S. check-in for high performers, and that is a fair description of the work too. For the founder who knows exactly what is wrong and has spent a year avoiding it.
Capital & Turnaround
Thirty years, twenty-five billion dollars in transactions, thirty-plus countries. Through Sinclair Range, Scott and his team drop into companies in difficulty with advisory, interim leadership and capital — and they measure success, in their own words, in jobs saved. Separately, his Pathway to Profit Academy teaches owners to raise capital and keep more of what they earn. Two numbers, really: one for before it goes wrong, one for after.
Business Consulting & Receivership
Roy is a business consultant and court-appointed rehabilitative receiver in Texas, with more than two hundred oil and gas transactions behind him totaling over $1.5 billion. In 2018 the 143rd District Court made him receiver of the 140,000-acre Hanging H Ranch; he negotiated its nine-figure sale three years later and still sits on the board. The call to make when a business, an estate or a partnership has reached the point where somebody neutral has to hold it.
Workplace Culture & Investigations
Charlene co-founded Howlett Brown, a people intelligence firm in London — workplace investigations, culture, and the risk that lives in how an organization actually treats the people inside it. Fifteen years across employment law, investigations and inclusion; a trained mediator working multi-jurisdictional cases; a Black British Business Awards Rising Star and one of the Global Diversity List's top twenty diversity professionals. For the firm that suspects it has a problem and would rather find out properly than hope.
The ones who build the room, the house, and the audience.
Interior Design & Architecture
Founder and lead design architect of Schreier Interior, with more than thirty years in interior design, custom furniture and architecture. His method is listening — a client’s own story becomes the space, form and function at the core of it — and he prides himself on never repeating a design concept from one project to the next, so no two of his rooms belong to anybody else. His work has been featured in Design and Décor and Minneapolis–St. Paul Magazine. He lives in Naples with his wife and business partner, Liz. For the person who has the house and cannot make it feel like theirs.
Media & Real Estate Community
Andrew publishes SWFL Real Producers: a monthly magazine, quarterly events and a curated network for the top five hundred realtors in Southwest Florida and the businesses that serve them. If you are trying to reach the people who actually move property in Naples and Fort Myers, he is the room.
Nobody paid to be here and nothing on this page is an advertisement. These are people Kristen has worked with, listed because she would genuinely put her own name behind a referral to any of them. Every description was written from what each of them publishes about their own work.
Their words on working with Kristen are next door.
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I take my health seriously and specifically. My blood is drawn every quarter to check my hormone levels, my heart health, and my general wellbeing, and everything I do is under the guidance of a medical and functional clinician.
I do not share my personal protocol — what is right for me is built on my own bloodwork, and it could be wrong for you. What I will share is where I go, and the two everyday things Brian and I both swear by.
If you want personalized, clinician-guided care rather than a protocol copied from someone else's body — start here.
Personalized to your own labs, not to mine.
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Not without asking you first, every time. Everyone named on the client page agreed to be there. If Kristen ever wants to reference your work, she asks, and no is a complete answer that changes nothing about how you are treated.
What is said in a session stays in the session. Nothing from your program documents, your Brand Blueprint or your intake answers is shared, quoted or used as an example — not with other clients, not from a stage, not in marketing.
Contacting Kristen adds you to a mailing list for exactly nothing. If there is ever a list worth joining you will be asked to join it deliberately.
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