We're on a mission to change our world for the better by equipping leaders, organizations, and communities with the skills and competencies needed to lead in more inclusive, human, and effective ways.
About Spotlight Trust™
The founders of Trust-Centered™ Leadership
Work is about relationships, and relationships come down to trust. Spotlight Trust™ is an organizational design and leadership development partner that helps companies make work better with practical, measurable, and comprehensive approaches that put an emphasis on trust. Spotlight Trust™ helps leaders and organizations develop tactical soft skills, practical competencies, and organizational systems to earn, strengthen, extend, and restore trust – the most valuable asset of our time.
Our Origin Story
Would you start a business with someone you’ve only met in person once and talked to for about 5 minutes?
Spotlight Trust Co-founders and Co-CEOs Lisa Lambert of Rule Number Six and Rick Kitagawa of Kaiju Coaching did. That’s the power of trust.
Lisa and Rick first met while working remotely as leadership coaches (later head coaches) in Seth Godin’s altMBA. They had the chance to very briefly meet in-person in New York City, but collaborating on Spotlight Trust wasn’t even a seed of an idea at the time.
They later had the chance to work more closely together (remotely) on several initiatives within the Akimbo Workshops and recognized the value in uniting each other’s different perspectives and experiences to tackle a recurring theme in both their paths and one that felt more important than ever: trust.
Bringing deep leadership experience in their own respective fields and having coached thousands of leaders around the world independently as well as through the altMBA and other Akimbo Workshops, Lisa and Rick took the leap to co-found Spotlight Trust in late 2019. Spotlight Trust combines their forces and insights to bring a practical framework for developing trust to leaders and the organizations and communities that rely on those leaders.
Meet Spotlight Trust's Co-founders and Co-CEOs
Rick Kitagawa (he/him) brings his creative entrepreneurial background, out-of-the-box thinking, and executive coaching experience and mixes it with his experience of teaching and designing curricula at the university level to Spotlight Trust. His ability to see the unique strengths in people and help them unlock their leadership potential is only matched by his open mind, his flair for the dramatic, and his love of monsters and mythical creatures.
- Connect with Rick on LinkedIn
- Read Rick’s daily blog
- Listen to Rick’s solo podcast, The Inner Monster Podcast
Lisa Lambert (she/her) brings her experience leading special projects and strategic communications on the frontiers of science, technology, and innovation as well as her award-winning facilitation skills to Spotlight Trust. Her ability to navigate complexity, catalyze collaboration, and transform organizations is only matched by her thoughtfulness, her passion for adventure, and love for her two puppers (and Spotlight Trust’s office managers), Bebop and Rocksteady.
- Connect with Lisa on LinkedIn
- Read Lisa’s daily blog
