Kirk Froggatt is a Senior Consultant with The Hayes Group specializing in talent, leadership, and organizational development. He has coached managers and executives and designed and delivered custom leadership and organizational development experiences for clients across a variety of industries. Kirk’s diverse client list includes Mayo Clinic, 3M, General Mills, Starkey Hearing, ThermoKing, Advanced Control Systems, AltaMed Healthcare, Parexel, Wells Fargo, CKE Restaurants, The Clearing House, and FLSmidth.
Kirk brings a unique combination of industry expertise and academic insight to his coaching and consulting work. He spent 25 years in senior roles at global technology companies including HP, Yahoo!, Agilent Technologies, and Ecolab. In these roles, he coached leaders at all levels, advised senior leaders and Board committees, led organizational transformations, and designed leadership development initiatives aimed at building leadership bench strength, from workforce planning and recruitment to C-suite readiness. During his time at Agilent Technologies, Kirk’s work driving organizational capability and business results during a multi-year business transformation earned his team the HR Innovator of the Year award from the Silicon Valley HR Symposium while Agilent’s CEO was recognized as one of the top 25 CEOs for leadership development by the Best Practices Institute.
Most recently, Kirk served as a Sr. Fellow and Gemini Chair in Technology Management at the University of Minnesota’s Technological Leadership Institute. In this role, he developed and taught innovation leadership courses for technical professionals pursuing graduate degrees in technology management. After ten years at UMN, Kirk was honored for his outstanding teaching record with a new student fellowship in his name, The Kirk Froggatt Diversity and Inclusion Fellowship for aspiring technology leaders.
Kirk holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from San Diego State University and a Master of Science in Management & Organizational Behavior from Purdue University’s Krannert Graduate School of Management. His passion is helping clients develop effective leaders, build stronger teams, and navigate complex organizational changes.
