KRISTEN RENEE INGRAM
Founder + CEO
Kristen Renee Ingram is an Emmy Award–winning executive, cultural strategist, theologian, and Executive Producer working across sports, entertainment, media, and civic life.
As Founder + CEO of PLUS ONE society, Kristen advises brands, institutions, and leaders navigating consequential cultural moments. She is often brought in when the opportunity is significant, the stakeholders are complex, or the usual playbook no longer fits.
For more than two decades, Kristen has worked inside and alongside organizations including the NFL, NBA, Amazon Studios, ESPN, IMG, Common, and Represent Justice.
Before founding PLUS ONE, Kristen served as Head of Affiliate Marketing for NFL Media, leading strategy across NFL Network and NFL RedZone. Her work spanned audience strategy, partnerships, campaigns, talent, cultural programming, Super Bowl, and Pro Bowl, helping grow annual media value from $8M to more than $40M.
Her work has taken her from NFL boardrooms and national broadcasts to prison yards, state capitols, cultural stages, and community spaces. Those rooms shaped how she understands power, proximity, relationships, and trust.
That range is part of what clients come to Kristen for: the ability to read a room, understand the larger system around it, and see where the real opportunity lives.
Through PLUS ONE, she advises leaders on cultural strategy, narrative positioning, partnerships, talent, and experience architecture. Her work has helped secure more than $5M in aligned funding and generated more than 500M earned media impressions.
As Executive Producer of Play for Justice, Kristen helped build an ecosystem connecting professional basketball, incarcerated communities, advocacy, storytelling, and policy. Her work has been recognized with Emmy, CLIO, Anthem, and Telly honors.
Kristen holds a Master of Arts in Justice & Advocacy from Fuller Theological Seminary. Her theological training deepened a question that has followed her throughout her career:
What do we owe one another when we have the power to shape what happens next?
That question informs how she thinks about culture, leadership, institutions, and responsibility.
One of Kristen’s longest-held principles captures the heart of her work:
“Empathy is a derivative of connection.”
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