Kristin LaRonca Parpel

Aside from being a Certified Coach, Kristin has more than 15 years' experience as a senior executive in business. As Managing Director of Wunderman Prague, Kristin established and ran the advertising agency, building it from a one-person operation to a multi -million dollar business servicing clients such as Ford Motor Company, Kraft Foods, Philip Morris, Ericsson, and the predecessor to Telefonica O2, Eurotel, among many others. 

After building the Prague agency for Wunderman, Kristin took a one year leave-of-absence to backpack around the world, after which she was asked to take on a global Senior vice president role at the Wunderman Headquarters in New York.

From Wunderman, Kristin was recruited to the headquarters office of the French advertising agency, Euro RSCG, as Director Global Marketing Services Group, with responsibility for development, best practices, corporate identity, new business acquisition and internal relations for more than 60 agencies worldwide.

Her success in the business world is only part of her story; her passion for releasing the potential in others is the driving force in her life.

Kristin majored in psychology at the University of Hartford. She serves as a volunteer or Board Member in a number of non-profit organizations including: Forum 2000 Foundation; Class Acts, a non-profit organization for children; UNICEF and Vodafone Foundation’s Odyssey mentoring project for women executives.