Elevating Team Leadership
ABOUT US

We help global teams re-establish trust, communication and increase their effectiveness after restructuring and realignment. 

As international organizations navigate a new reality, our work to build team resilience is more resonant than ever. 

Our deeply experienced practitioners meet teams where they are to build internal capacity, reduce friction and create the right conditions for successful delivery.

OUR MISSION

KITE was created to elevate team leadership within the international development, social change, and humanitarian fields, supporting organizations that work to advance peace and sustainable change in the world.

Although the world has changed significantly, our dedication to this mission has not. 

Teams need to be more deliberate and strategic than ever, often with less resources and more urgency to deliver.

We stand with the global teams and organizations that continue to push forward through the consequences of this change toward a healthier world tomorrow.

OUR APPROACH

KITE’s strength is in evaluating a team’s needs and addressing its unique obstacles, finding new opportunities for individuals and groups to perform effectively in a new reality.

Systemic team coaching focuses on designing trust into the way teams operate, enabling them to surface diverse perspectives, make decisions amidst uncertainty, and stay committed even when conditions change.

TEAMS THAT WORK WITH US REPORT:

More productive use of meetings, often in less time and with more consultation and action.

Enhanced team design around decision making, information sharing, accountability and managing conflict.

Deeper connection, empathy and commitment - not just to the team’s mission but to one another.

As unpredictability becomes the norm, past solutions lose their effectiveness. Invest in your team’s ability to read their context clearly and respond with confidence, not only urgency.

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Additional Support

Organizational Development

KITE supports office and team realignments and restructuring.

team development and Coaching

KITE practitioners are skilled coaches that can offer individual, peer and group coaching to leaders, in multiple languages and across time zones.

FACILITATION

KITE offers a range of facilitation services, from alignment on work processes to retreats and multi-stakeholder engagement sessions.

leadership Coaching

Learning Design and engaging delivery

KITE practitioners have deep experience in the design and delivery of learning programs.

change Management Support

Our Values

Diversity

We hold diversity as a vital means for the pursuit of knowledge, understanding, and the establishment of justice and equity.

Interdependence

We believe in the power of collaborative action, of mutual support, and collective wisdom.

Transparency

We hold clarity, openness and honesty as the foundation for all generative relationships and effective collaboration.

Participatory Change

We believe that people support what they create and champion the honoring of all voices.

SERVICE

We are committed to work that we believe to be timely, responsive to our clients' actual needs, impactful, and courageous.

OUtcomes

Teams that invest in our process build trust that translates directly into improved performance, adaptability and impactful delivery. They report a clearer sense of collective purpose and alignment, more supportive relationships and stronger outcomes.

Testimonials

I (appreciated)…the structure, the agility and the practicality of KITE's approach. A perfect blend of head and heart.

THE FORD FOUNDATION
Testimonials

[Bjørn] is just brilliant! He has an exceptional ability to connect with individuals and was able to extract the inner burning issues from each of us. His sessions felt personal and meaningful, and he created a safe space where we could open up and reflect deeply. Truly an inspiring facilitator.

UNICEF Country Office Team, Bangladesh
Testimonials

Nina's approach was extremely effective - soft and subtle, from behind rather than imposing. But she was leading us into what felt like the unknown, expertly. it wasn't a standardised approach - it felt tailored to our needs and brought out the best in all of us. She was just a little bit ahead of us all so we never knew what was coming next and were kept on our toes.

UNDP Division Team, HQ/NY
Testimonials

Very happy to have a chance to work with Eva, who is a serious professional with a huge level of empathy and wisdom.

UN Country OFFICE, Montenegro
Testimonials

I wanted an exceptional team coach to help make my team exceptional...through the process, the team was elevated to a whole new level of cooperation, competency and commitment.

Director | Multilateral Global Fund
Testimonials

You found us as a group that enjoyed working with each other, treated each other generally well, and had a variety of strengths and helped build us into a truly bonded team with a sense of mission, direction, optimism, and deep care for each other.

Senior Leader, OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE
Testimonials

...we’ve gone a long way to building our bond as a team, learning to develop a shared vision and goal, and improving on clear communication and honest asks with one another.

Senior Leader, The Nature Conservancy
Testimonials

We gained traction from the first connection session.... and they did appreciate the methodology and approach, taking us through a series of activities that led us to a better grounding of who we are as a team, getting to know each other better and also understanding our compelling purpose and why we are commissioned as a team.

Chief of Section, United Nations
Our Team

Our team consists of highly skilled, experienced practitioners with unique lived experience and deep contextual knowledge of the inner life of international organizations.

Like the majority of our clients, we’re based all over the world. We’re intentionally multicultural and multilingual with a distinctly global perspective.

Nina Segal
Founder
(United States)
Stephanie Ngo
Senior Team and Executive Coach
(Sri Lanka)
Eva Fernandéz
Senior Team and Executive Coach
(The United Kingdom and Spain)
Nadine Chetty
Executive and Team Coach
(Singapore)
Bjørn Nissen
Senior Team Coach
(Italy)
Elena Sancho
Executive and Team Coach
(France and Spain)
Sandee Pyne
Executive and Team Coach
(Philippines)
Eric J. Henderson
Media Consultant
(United States)
Javier Goldsman
Executive Coach
United States
Holly White
Executive Coach and Facilitator
United States
Julien Hautier
Executive Coach and Facilitator
Spain
Kathrina Peters
Executive Coach
Spain
Client list

End Violence Against Children (EVAC)
InterAmerican Development Bank (IDB)
International Rescue Committee (IRC)
Global Fund for Women (GFW)
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)
Human Rights Watch (HRW)
InterAmerican Development Bank (IDB)
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
United Nations Fund For Population Activities (UNFPA)
United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF)
United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund (UNJSPF)
UN Office at Geneva (UNOG)
United Nations System Staff College (UNSSC)
The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women)
The Nature Conservancy (TNC)
World Food Programme (WFP)