Dr. Jacob Engelskirger is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist based in Alameda, California, with over 13 years of experience in the behavioral science field. He strives to collaborate with clients to improve their professional and occupational functioning by broadening their thinking, feeling, and perspective on the world, identifying and changing problematic behavioral and relational patterns, and increase self-awareness and understanding through an approach that embodies empathy, curiosity, and challenge.

Dr. Jacob is the founding psychologist of an onsite corporate wellness clinic at a Fortune 500 company, where he established a behavioral wellness program for corporate employees.

He has concurrently provided psychotherapy, executive and professional coaching, and consulting services to high-functioning professionals in disciplines including technology, medicine, law, and the pharmaceutical industry through his private practice for over 3 years and has taught, trained, and supervised doctoral-level psychology graduate students in varied settings. He was selected to Co-Chair the Society of Consulting Psychology’s (Division 13 of the American Psychological Association) annual conference in 2024 and 2025.

Dr. Jacob strives to live an authentic life which is consistent with his humanistic professional values. And, frankly, getting stoked is his biggest motivational driver. In his free time, Dr. Jacob is recharged and invigorated by being in community, reading exhaustively on topics ranging from mid-century architecture, to general aviation, to art and design, traveling with his young son, wife, and loyal rescue dog Ryder, rock climbing, surfing, riding mountain bikes on pump tracks and dirt jumps, and doing saunas and cold plunges.

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Kelly is an Ergonomic Specialist and Occupational Therapist who has been working in the field of workplace health and safety for over 7 years. Kelly was the founding ergonomist of an onsite corporate healthcare clinic at a Fortune 500 company, where she developed and grew the occupational ergonomic services program. Kelly provides ergonomic services both in person as well as virtually that are designed to identify and eliminate work-related injuries and increase employee comfort and productivity. Kelly draws extensively from her background in occupational therapy to bring the lens of body mechanics, activity analysis, and human behavior to every ergonomic challenge. Using behavioral techniques, evidence-based education, and supportive equipment recommendations, Kelly is able to create a more functional work space that eliminates discomfort at its root, and promotes a healthier work style.

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Dr. Ian Kristic has 25 years of experience as a senior leader designing and delivering executive and leadership development programs, executive coaching, high-potential assessment and development, succession planning and conducting leading-edge human capital management research. His subject-matter expertise includes leadership and management, coaching, succession planning, talent development, personality assessment, organizational assessment, and interpersonal and communication skill development.

Taking a human-centered approach to developing leaders through customized individual coaching and structured training programs, Dr. Kristic incorporates deep knowledge and experience in the behavioral sciences combining psychological practice with management consulting expertise honed while working in some of the world’s leading consulting firms.

Currently at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Dr. Kristic oversees Executive and Leadership Development and is involved in the other following areas: organizational culture diagnosis and transformation, succession planning, performance management, and organization development advisory services.

Prior to joining NREL, Ian led the Psychometric Assessment and Consulting Services business at The Myers-Briggs Company which delivered hundreds of personality assessment programs, team and leadership development programs, and executive coaching to many of the Fortune 500 companies in the western U.S. region. He has held executive-level positions in consultancies such as Interaction Associates, PA Consulting Group, The Forum Corporation (now Korn Ferry), Linkage Inc, and Executive Development Associates, where he designed and facilitated innovative leadership development experiences and talent management solutions for organizations and companies such as Microsoft, UBS, Amazon, Exelon, Gilead Sciences, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, the United Nations, McDonald’s, Hewlett Packard, Macy’s, Colgate-Palmolive, Devon Energy, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Campbell Soup, and the American Red Cross.

At Devon Energy, a Fortune 500 independent oil and gas producer, Ian served as senior performance development advisor, managing the company’s leadership assessment and development system for leaders at the executive, manager, and supervisor levels. He also served as a senior organization development consultant at H&R Block’s non-prime mortgage banking subsidiary Option One Mortgage and headed up the Organization Development and Training function at LG Information and Communications.

Based in Colorado, Dr. Kristic is living the dream – skiing, mountaineering, hiking, and camping among the many 14ers. When not in the Colorado mountains, he and his wife are globetrotting trekking the Alps or Andes mountains.

Ian earned a PhD in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Alliant International University, a Master of Arts degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from the University of Tulsa, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Baylor University.

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Brian’s life, and career, has followed a path of experiences that inspire him to innovate beyond the norm. To embrace diverse perspectives.

His path started like many others, as a kid facing challenges without the privilege (and burden) of a guiding hand that often shapes success. This freed him from the burdens of expectations, which became his greatest gift. In college, he explored the world of knowledge, choosing Biochemistry, Chemistry, Neuroscience and Computer Science as his passions. In grad school, he designed an Artificial Neural Network to model sensory reception.

After publishing, he left the structure of Academia and returned to the unknown, hitchhiking through Mexico—driven by curiosity and the thrill of discovery. With a few stops in Laos, Cambodia, hiking through Tiger Leaping Gorge, hitching boat rides through the Mekong, and Yangtze rivers, he returned to California to build on the skills needed for adventure; mountaineering through the Trinity Alps, the Sierras and the Lost Coast taught him deeper lessons about success and resilience.

As a career coach, he understands the need to support his clients on their journeys toward their ideal careers. He’s excited to offer his career coaching services as a new member of the stoked.live team, surrounded by other passionate and highly skilled experts. He teaches how to trust your gut in those frenzied moments where a decision needs to be made now – as he has learned the value of trusting his instincts firsthand through his experiences of adventure and thrill seeking.

Brian’s a charismatic, collaborative, and strategic leader who likes working at the heart of complex change within communities and organizations. Be they nonprofits, political campaigns, academia, or tech startups, he’s been rewarded by and challenged to work with many talented teams that embody the drive and ambition to accept nothing less than success. He’s a PMP and PMI-ACP certified servant leader who cultivates the details and is cognizant of the big picture. He’s worked closely with engineers, scientists, and physicians to align teams with business goals.

At Stoked.live, Brian’s living his dream – surrounded by experts from Fortune 500 companies and national laboratories, helping others reach the highest levels of success while creating a fulfilling work-life balance.

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