Overview
Kristin Deutmeyer is a partner in Heidrick & Struggles’ Chicago office and head of the Marketing, Sales & Strategy Officers Practice. She is also co-head of the Digital Officers Practice and a member of the global Consumer Markets and CEO & Board of Directors practices.
Experience
Kristin specializes in marketing, communications, general management, and digital leadership searches across the retail, consumer tech, products, services, lifestyle, and hospitality sectors. She has extensive experience working with publicly traded corporations, privately held companies, founder-owned companies, private equity firms, and financially distressed companies.
Kristin helps companies accelerate growth by attracting modern, transformational talent necessary to compete in today’s rapidly changing business landscape. Her passion for building diverse teams and a creative approach to recruiting talent across traditional industry boundaries helps her identify and secure leaders who can spur innovation and create value for her clients.
Before joining Heidrick & Struggles, Kristin spent more than a decade as a public relations consultant, building consumer-facing programs, developing corporate communications strategies, and producing award-winning events, all to build and protect brands. Most recently, she owned her own public relations consultancy and developed multi-faceted programs to build brand reputation and mitigate risk.
Kristin started her Chicago agency career at GolinHarris, where she managed corporate and consumer programs focusing on crisis management, media relations, and internal communications.
Education
Loras College, Bachelor’s Degrees in Journalism and Public Relations