Kristine Sargsyan

Biography

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 is the author of several organizational development (OD) tools, which have been recognized by a number international organizations. She has also established a small OD library for local professionals. Previously Sargsyan worked for TACIS, World Learning, USDA, Unicef, UNDP, Eurasia Partnership Foundation, Caritas Armenia, Real Medicine Foundation and TED. With a background in foreign languages, Sargsyan obtained her MBA from the Carlos Magnus University.
She is the Founder and Licensee of TEDxYerevan conference in Armenia. More than 30 successful TEDx events have been organized under her supervision 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 – a US Embassy program, financed by the US Department of State.
She is also a TED OTP Project fellow and TED Global Participant. (here is a TED video about the project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxEgJIMwbfc )
In 2015 she has been recognized as one of the 28 TED-Ed Innovative Educator of the world who have been selected from 250000 educators, trainers and teachers. Here is a TED blog post about it: http://blog.ed.ted.com/2015/09/01/meet-the- first-cohort- of-ted- ed-innovative- educators/
In 2017 she has been recognized as one of the 21 remarkable women who change the
Eastern Europe by different networks of European investigative journalist:
http://ostpol.de/beitrag/4828-21-remarkable-women-who-are-changing-eastern-europe.
Kristine is also writing a book called "Tracing My Brain" for kids, parents and educators.
Presently Sargsyan is working on establishing THINK Studio S*cool and is also developing a TV project called “Future is Talking” aiming at rising kids and youth voice in Armenia.