Kristi Conlon is a learning and talent strategist who works with HR leadership teams at the intersection of people, process, and technology to design enterprise learning strategies that grow people, teams, and business results. Her current work centers on responsibly leading AI people transformation — governance, workflow task impact analysis, job redesign, and reskilling in the operational workflow — and on architecting skills-based, adaptive workforces that improve engagement, retention, internal mobility, and measurable KPIs. She has served in global enterprise VP roles on executive leadership teams across Operations, Sales and Marketing, Technology, Manufacturing, and SaaS, in addition to leading the People/HR function, and has consulted to Fortune 100 CEOs and CHROs as well as pre-IPO executives across industries ranging from semiconductor and supply chain to higher education, SaaS, and AI/LLM services.

Kristi brings deep expertise across competency and skill ontology architecture, upskilling, HRIS and learning technologies, AI in L&D, learning operations, metrics and reinforcement, assessments, certifications, and solution design and facilitation. On the broader talent side, she has led employee engagement, enterprise OKRs, performance management, succession planning, career pathways, talent marketplace, and alumni network capability builds.

She has served as a judge for the Learning Elite awards, and her programs have earned Brandon Hall Gold and Silver, CLO Magazine Learning in Practice, eLearning Magazine #1 Top 100, and ATD recognitions. She is a three-time Top 100 Learning Leader. Kristi holds an MS in Occupational and Adult Education and is a certified change management practitioner, certified DEI advocate, Hogan assessor/coach, and ICF ACC credentialed executive coach.