Kristin Skinner

Founder & CEO, VELOCITY Co / Former Global SVP Expedia Group, JPMorgan Chase, Capital One / MD Adaptive Path / AUTHOR

I'm an organizational systems strategist specializing in eliminating the invisible friction that consumes 60% of leadership time. I'm co-author of Org Design for Design Orgs and have spent 20+ years scaling organizations from 30 to 12,000+ people at Expedia Group, JPMorgan Chase, Capital One, Microsoft, and Adaptive Path.

I Don’t Just Advise. I’ve Built It, Broken It, Fixed It, and Scaled It. Twenty years of pattern recognition, systems design, and executive strategic partnership, distilled into Organizational Systems Architecture for leaders across industries. In a world obsessed with outcomes, I show leaders how to master the inputs that actually move organizations forward.

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As Founder and CEO of VELOCITY Co, I help operators, founders, and Fortune 500 executives at companies like Adobe, Netflix, Nike, Cisco, and Walmart eliminate organizational friction through my proprietary Organizational Systems Method.

I wrote the book, org design for design orgs, co-founded the DesignOps Summit, lead masterclasses on executive leadership, and am a frequent keynote speaker on executive leadership, organizational design, and systems architecture.

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• Organizational Friction
• Scaling Organizations
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Decision Architecture
• Org Design + Team Building
• Systems Thinking
• Design Operations at Scale
• Executive Leadership Transitions
• Strategic Consulting
• Positioning + Productization

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