Curate the room
Choose the people, purpose, and format. Give every seat a reason to be there.
Rooms + experiences
A deliberately designed room changes what becomes possible.
Kristi does more than speak into rooms. She builds them for leaders, founders, teams, and communities: intentional spaces where trust gets real, relationships become useful, and opportunities have somewhere to land.
Rare Rooms™ / The work behind the experience
Build the room.
Lead the room.
Make what happens next count.
You may need customers to understand your value, leaders to make a decision, founders to practice an ask, or people to build a useful relationship. Kristi designs and leads the work around that purpose.
Hold + lead the room
Set the context and norms. Ask useful questions, make participation possible, and guide the conversation.
Keynote + teach the room
Give people a shared language they can use in the decisions and conversations that follow.
Critique + coach the work
Use live feedback, hot seats, and practical coaching to sharpen a message, offer, ask, or decision.
Package + sell the experience
Define who it is for, what people receive, how it is priced and invited, and the fitting paid next step.
Follow through
Name the actions and owners. Connect people where useful and capture what happened after the room.
A different application: the NC TECH opening keynote
People kept using what happened in the room.
Read the feedback
“And it was awesome how every other speaker referenced you throughout the day!”
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Read the feedback
“They realized a lot more about who they are and how they see the world.”
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I want to be in the room.
Bring your message, learn from the live work, and meet the people practicing alongside you.
Explore the next BetterStory Studio™My organization needs a room.
Commission a customer, partner, leadership, founder, or member experience around a clear business goal.
Discuss a Rare Room™I want to build and sell my own experience.
Connect your expertise, offers, assets, live experience, and follow-up around the business you are building.
Build with KristiThe Pinnacle Dinner™
A room designed for leaders who are done networking without movement.
Pinnacle brings decision-makers, founders, executives, and revenue leaders together around a table built for depth. No frantic card-swapping. No performative small talk. The room is curated so trust can form faster and the right conversations can keep going.
$5Min business movement through five Pinnacle Dinners™
Explore The Pinnacle Dinner 
Signature rooms + cohort
Choose the room that matches the work.
These rooms aren’t built for one gender or one title. They’re built around the quality of the people, the truth of the conversation, and the movement the room needs to create.
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Relationships + revenue
The Pinnacle Dinner™
Private executive rooms built around a specific relationship, market, client, or business priority.
Visit Pinnacle 02Connection + celebration
The Pinnacle Prom™
A modern society prom where intentional connection, beautiful details, and a very good night share the same room.
Enter the Prom 03Story + visibility
BetterStory Studio™
A live working lab for clearer language, stronger presence, real-time feedback, and more useful visibility.
Enter the Studio 04Cohort · $3,500
Build Your Own Rare Room™
Hosting is leadership. Create a new market entry, referrals, or partnerships by becoming the convener.
Explore the cohortPinnacle Powered™
Bring the Rare Rooms™ method inside your organization.
Pinnacle Powered™ brings the Rare Rooms™ method inside your organization. We help you build a room around a business goal, choose who should be there, shape the conversation, make the ask, and follow through on what happens next.
Washington National Opera · Field & Main
30 guests. $20,000 raised in support of Washington National Opera.
The Voice at the Table™
A WNO collaboration in Tysons around guest curation, conversation, relationship development, and follow-through.
Explore the workPrivate rooms + retreats
When the moment calls for a room designed around the outcome.
Kristi designs and facilitates smaller experiences that accelerate candor, connection, trust, and decision-making for leaders moving through growth and change.
Curated people
Who’s in the room is part of the strategy.
Useful tension
The conversation goes where the opportunity actually is.
Visible movement
People leave knowing what changed and what happens next.
“Relationships are how the work moves. The room decides whether they ever get deep enough to matter.”
Market making across communities
Relationships create possibilities across industries.
Kristi connects people, expertise, and shared interests to new partnerships and experiences. The strategy includes who belongs, why they gather, how the conversation works, and what follows.
For the moment you’re moving into.
Let’s make it move.
Bring Kristi in when the stakes are high and your leaders are ready to build confidence, cohesion, trust, and follow-through around what comes next.