Ripple Effect - August 30, 2019
It’s hard to sneak anything past her. A seasoned event project manager and management consultant with certified credentials to boot, Kristin Ginnity has planned and overseen some of the biggest events for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) since she joined Ripple Effect nearly four years ago. She’s found a niche in which she excels in a place she loves, and that’s right where she wants to be: stable, organized, and in control of the details. But how did a perfectionist formerly on the path to elementary school teacher end up an expert government meeting planner and career manager? We took a stroll with Kristin around her local neighborhood to find out.
“I’m a MoCo girl for life,” she beams with pride as we stroll along a wooded boardwalk by the lake waterfront of the Rio dining and shopping complex. Born and raised, home and heart: Kristin Ginnity, walking billboard for Maryland’s lovely Montgomery County. “Gaithersburg is my little bubble. The familiarity is calming. Everything is ten minutes away—my work, my church, my family.” Some may argue it’s a big bubble, with Montgomery County’s some million-plus residents, yet places have a way of shrinking the longer one spends there. And for Kristin, that’s been a lifetime. The structure, safety, and comfort of her home have shaped the core of Kristin’s personality and values, which have guided her path through life.
