Kristy Parke

Kristy Parke is the founder of Radiant Life Consulting and one of the most distinctive voices in conscious leadership development today. She sits at a rare intersection: 20+ years of professional experience — including 15+ years in corporate L&D and executive leadership at global organizations like Marriott International, Louis Vuitton, and the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention — combined with deep, practitioner-level training in intuitive coaching, energy medicine, and somatic awareness. The result is a consulting practice that brings both boardroom credibility and transformational depth to every engagement.

Kristy works with individual leaders facing crossroads and with organizations ready to move beyond conventional performance metrics toward sustainable, purpose-driven success. Her clients range from C-suite executives and nonprofit leaders to small business teams navigating burnout, alignment challenges, and cultural transformation. Whether she is facilitating a corporate offsite, delivering one-on-one executive coaching, or guiding someone through a profound personal shift, her approach is the same: meet the whole person, clear what is in the way, and help them hear what they already know.

At the heart of Kristy's organizational work is the A.L.I.V.E. Conscious Development Model — a proprietary framework she developed to guide leaders and teams through values-based transformation. A.L.I.V.E. stands for Activation, Leadership, Inspiration, Vitality, and Energy. It integrates executive strategy, mindfulness, somatic awareness, and energy alignment to help leaders move from reactive performance to sustainable, purpose-driven impact.

The framework has been applied across sectors — from digital strategy agencies navigating burnout to executive teams at the Innovative Leadership Institute, where CEO Maureen Metcalf credited the work with helping her leadership team achieve greater impact for their clients. The A.L.I.V.E. Method is not a formula; it is a living, adaptive process grounded in both neuroscience and the body's own wisdom.

Before founding Radiant Life, Kristy spent nearly two decades building and leading learning and development functions at some of the world's most demanding organizations. She brings measurable results: she exceeded a $3M annual sales goal by $500K at Marriott, helped the MW/MA region at Louis Vuitton achieve the highest Net Promoter Score in the zone at 72%, and onboarded over 300 associates across multiple enterprise roles. She facilitated training for international audiences, contributed to five Ritz-Carlton curricula, and presented to Fortune Magazine evaluators on Marriott's global learning strategy.

Her final corporate role, at the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention's Global Human Resources team, had her designing learning solutions for a global, ISO-compliant nonprofit operating in 140 countries. It was there — in the intersection of overextension, chronic illness, and an honest reckoning with what was sustainable — that the seeds of Radiant Life were planted.

In 2017, Kristy was diagnosed with a chronic illness that forced her out of the corporate world and into a confrontation with everything she had been taught to measure success by. The healing path she walked — through energy medicine, somatic work, intuitive guidance, and deep self-inquiry — became the foundation of her consulting practice. She did not simply recover and return. She transformed.

That personal experience of navigating illness, burnout, and reinvention is not incidental to her work — it is central to it. Clients like Michele Garfield, who credits Kristy with helping her overcome limitations she had struggled with for years due to chronic illness, and Christopher Davis, who describes going "from the depths of despair to a newfound zest for life," are not outliers. They reflect the depth of what becomes possible when a practitioner has walked the road herself.

Kristy serves on the Board of Advisors for Women in Change USA, where she hosts Action Learning Circles — intimate, facilitated gatherings where women come together to collaboratively solve real challenges in real time. The format reflects her core belief that meaningful change happens in community, not in isolation, and that every woman in the room already holds part of the answer.

She is also the co-host of Hey Beautiful, a podcast she produces alongside her friend and fellow industry leader Roberta Jones. The show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Podbean, and explores themes of personal growth, conscious living, and the courage it takes to become who you truly are.

Kristy's client base spans executives, entrepreneurs, individuals in personal transformation, and organizational teams. Across more than thirteen consecutive five-star reviews, her clients consistently describe the same experience: feeling deeply understood, gaining clarity they couldn't find elsewhere, and making changes they had been unable to make for years. Lindsay H., Chief Creative Officer of a digital strategy agency, described a workshop Kristy facilitated as one that "blends strategy and soul in a way that many types of organizations could benefit from." Roberta Jones, a seasoned executive, credits the work with helping her "connect with purpose and select the right job" at a critical career transition.