Kris Cravey

Kris Cravey is an accomplished C-Level executive leader with a proven track record of scaling, accelerating, and operating startup, growth stage, and large established companies in the markets they serve. He is passionate about mission-driven organizations, building high performing teams, translating vision into alignment and action, and creating a thriving workplace culture that attracts, retains, and brings out the best in employees. Most recently Kris served as the Chief People Officer at a drone technology startup that quickly turned into a growth stage unicorn. He and his team successfully scaled the company, in partnership with the largest retailer in the world, from 12 to 500+ employees in 38 locations in 12 months - all while building an outstanding company culture. To train these employees and support future scale (up to 1000+ employees per year), they created the first ever commercially accredited drone Flight Academy in partnership with Richard Bland College of William & Mary. Prior to this Kris spent 20 years in clean energy production in multiple, progressive executive leadership roles with Day & Zimmermann and the Atlantic Group. He ran a $100M+ P&L and led operations, business development, strategy, M&A, HR and learning & development teams over the course of his career. He also served for 7 years as a tenured professor and Director of the MBA and MA in Leadership program at Messiah University, teaching courses in innovation & entrepreneurship, business strategy, and leadership. Kris graduated from Regent University with a PhD in Organizational Leadership, an MBA and MA in Practical Theology. He also completed Wharton’s Executive Development Program in Strategy and Mergers & Acquisitions.