Kristen Bend

Creative Director | Experiential Designer | Where design meets psychology and craft

Role: Creative Director at Sypartners
Location: New York, NY, US
LinkedIn followers: 500 followers

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About Kristen Bend

Kristen Buchholz is a multimedia experiential designer and professional illustrator…

Experience

Creative Director
Sypartners
Jul 2023 — Present

Education

Sacred Heart University
Bachelor of Arts
2007 — 2011
Berlin Art Institute
Certificate
2022 — 2022
Pratt Institute
Continuing Education Certificate program
2020 — 2020
Parsons School of Design - The New School
Continuing Education Certificate Program
2018 — 2019

Skills

Av
Brochures
Illustrator
Layout
Collateral
Creative Direction
Indesign
Vendor Management
Client Relations
Graphic Design
Advertising
Magazines
Leadership
Customer Satisfaction
Adobe Creative Suite
Logo Design
Typography
Staging to Live
Mentoring
Mac
Photoshop
Art Direction
Packaging
Graphics

Contact information

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Current company

Sypartners

Business Consulting and Services · 183 employees · Founded 1994 · New York, New York, United States

SYPartners is a transformation consultancy that helps leaders improve organizational performance by aligning vision, activating strategy, and building cultures of competitive advantage. We partner at critical inflection points—when organizations need to adapt, grow, reinvent themselves, or lead through uncertainty. For more than 30 years, we’ve helped iconic organizations create new value by clarifying where they are headed, aligning around the choices that matter most, and building the leadership and organizational capabilities required to make change real. Our work helps leaders navigate disruption, accelerate transformation, and prepare their organizations for the future. Our work spans three interconnected pillars: Vision — designing shared pictures of the future that orient decisions, investment, innovation, and leadership around new sources of value. Strategy — turning ambition into action by identifying a handful of bold moves, aligning priorities, and building the capacity to adapt as conditions change. Culture — shaping the purpose, values, behaviors, and systems that enable organizations to execute strategy, sustain transformation, and perform at their best. Increasingly, our work helps leaders navigate the opportunities and challenges created by AI. We partner with organizations to build AI-ready leadership teams, cultures, and operating models capable of thriving in an environment of continuous change. We work with leaders across business, government, and the nonprofit sector—often during moments of leadership transition, market disruption, rapid growth, AI transformation, organizational reinvention, or crisis. Headquartered in New York City, with an office in Abu Dhabi, SYPartners is a founding member of kyu. Jason Baer is our CEO.

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About Kristen Bend

Experience

Creative Director

Education

Sacred Heart University

Berlin Art Institute

Pratt Institute

Parsons School of Design - The New School

Skills

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