Understanding Human Design


WHAT IS HUMAN DESIGN?

Human Design is a blueprint or tool to empower you to navigate, and understand who you are. It is also called “The Science of Differentiation.” It allows you to understand why you feel naturally drawn to do, act, or feel the way that you do.

When I discovered human design for myself, it opened up my entire world. I finally understood who I was. For the first time, I felt appreciated and validated.

And with every human design session, I am able to do the same for you. I incorporate human design into executive and leadership coaching, but these sessions are also available to you, as a personalized one-on-one session.

If you have never heard of Human Design before, here is a little more about it.

Human Design is a map for understanding who you are, how you perceive the world, and how you can best be heard, understood, and communicated with. It also provides you with the self-awareness you need to understand how you make decisions, how you digest information, how to best utilize your energy, and what environment supports who you are.

It empowers you to align your choices, life, and decisions around what comes naturally to you.

If you are interested in learning more about your unique design, I invite you to run your chart and find out which type you are.

Human Design Types:

  • Generators are built to follow their excitement. They are meant to use up all of their energy so they can end the night feeling accomplished. Their ideas and strategic minds enable them to be natural builders, taking an idea from start to finish.

  • Manifesting Generators are multi-faceted people who thrive on juggling various activities and passions. They are masters at finding the shortest and most direct way to do and say things.

  • Projectors are here to be leaders, advisors, and guides. They are natural observers of people and thrive with systems and particular ways of accomplishing something. They love facts and knowledge and are best utilized as subject matter experts. They find the most efficient way to meet a goal.

  • Manifestors are initiators and trailblazers. They get things started, thrive when they have autonomy, and bring an entrepreneurial spirit and wisdom to the world. They transform people and move organizations forward.

  • Reflectors are the rarest and the most fluid. They ingest the environment they are in and magnify it. Reflectors teach us about the wellness of a group or organization by reflecting the energy of the people around them.

As an individual, Human Design helps you feel seen and heard and to be able to empower others in a way that works best for them. In an organization, understanding how you were designed enables you to waste less emotional energy in the workplace. That excess energy goes directly to feeling more fulfilled, more self-aware, and more in tune with who you are meant to be.

What People Are Saying About Their Human Design Sessions:

My session with Kristen was powerful and reaffirming. I felt like, hey, this is me! Let me not try to be somebody else. It is empowering to realize this is just how I’m meant to be.
— Rachel N.
My human design session with Kristen was an affirmation of what I thought and felt about myself. It brought me the freedom to be who I truly am. When you know and understand yourself, you can focus on other things and not try to correct things that really should not be corrected.

Human design is like the guidebook that parents always say they want. Kristen did a session for me and my daughter. It has brought us so much closer and my daughter constantly refers back to it. I am so grateful for how it has helped me to understand her so much better.
— Karla A.






Human Design Chart




Undiscovered Talent

When I was 15, my cousin Russ took me to Sylvia's Restaurant in NYC. It was the night I got the courage to walk to Denzel Washington's table and ask him for his autograph. But that wasn't even the most memorable part of the night.

When we walked in, Flavor Flav was on the piano, playing the most beautiful classical music I had ever heard.

I was accustomed to watching him on stage with a microphone and huge clock around his neck. I was not used to hearing his fingers fly across the black and white keys on the piano, as though he was at Carnegie Hall, performing for us all.

It was the day that I understand that all of us have enormous talent inside of us, that is sometimes hidden from the people around us.

So many managers have people on their team, in roles that are using 1/10 of their talent - and are unaware that they have a zone of genius inside of them that is unbelievably amazing and deserves to be seen and heard.

What is the talent that YOU are hiding from yourself or from the world?

Set up a VIP day to discover your talents.

That Time Prince Was Booed by 94,000 People

In 1981, Prince was driven off the stage after 94,000 people booed him and and threw bottles at him and his band. They hurled slurs, threw grapefruits, old chicken parts & anything they could get their hands on.

Prince was opening for the Rolling Stones. He was so shaken that he left the stage and got on a plane back to Minneapolis, without his band. He told Mick Jagger that he did not want to do any more of the scheduled shows.

Prince has been my favorite artist, since I was 7 years old. When I listened to the podcast with host Andrea Swensson, I took away the following lessons:

⭐️Everyone, including Prince, has experienced a group, manager or workplace that did not understand or embrace who they were or what they had to offer

⭐️Hiring managers are passing over amazing employees with untapped talent, like Prince and the Revolution, every single day

⭐️We have to find our people or the audience/workplace who will understand the magic we already have and the magic that is not yet fully developed within us

⭐️Just because you open for the Rolling Stones or get hired by an incredible company, doesn’t mean it is the right place for you. Don’t be afraid to keep searching until you find your place. There are people and places who will “get” you.

Knowing When Your Team Needs to Be Fed

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I have a plant that droops when it needs to be fed. The same thing happens to employees when they need to be fed with something different than what they are receiving.

Whether it is:
⭐️Doing 5 jobs for the price of 1
⭐️Too little recognition (or none at all)
⭐️Exhaustion from red tape that keeps them from moving forward and feeding their productivity
⭐️Craving professional development or feeling judged for taking time to attend sessions
⭐️Having a manager who says they hate micromanaging, but wants to have a say in every single thing an employee does
⭐️Not feeling excited anymore about a job they have had for a long time
⭐️Having a manager with zero boundaries who says yes to everything but delegates the “yes’s” to an already stressed out the team
⭐️Being a hard working employee who doesn’t get checked on or rewarded because everyone assumes they are ok
⭐️Going through a lot at home or at work
⭐️A manager who knows they need leadership skills but isn’t receiving them from their organization

A part of being a leader is knowing when your team’s “leaves” begin to droop or knowing when their energy is off. And more importantly, doing what you can to feed them when you do take notice.