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2025 Influential Women in Business: Kristi W. Richard
Read Time: 1 minThe Baton Rouge Business Report profiled member Kristi W. Richard (Baton Rouge) on May 6, 2025 as one of the nine Influential Women in Business honorees for 2025. Kristi shared powerful insights on leadership, women’s empowerment, and the value of mentorship in personal and professional growth.
When it’s go time, there is no hierarchy in leadership. If a leader is not willing to do what she is asking someone else to do in that moment, there is no respect and even though the immediate project might get done, you will have lost your team. My mentor taught me that from the very beginning and it is one thing I’ve always tried to practice.
There are so many women who are stuck in situations because they don’t have the power to change their current situation. If you could help even the smallest thing, so that they can free up the time to work on themselves, it empowers women on any level to change their situations and be mobile.
It’s not a mistake if it can be fixed. As a young associate attorney thinking I was about to lose my job, having senior partners unequivocally tell me that, help me fix it and then not mention it again in a negative way helped me grow tremendously.
Read more here and here. Kristi and the other honorees will be recognized at a luncheon on Tuesday, May 20.