Founders Coffee: Kyle Hunt – Growing Without Losing What Makes You Special

The Speaker

Kyle Hunt is the Founder and Principal Consultant at Hunt Leadership Group, a Winnipeg-based HR and leadership advisory practice that helps growing organizations build practical, people-first workplaces. With more than 15 years of experience in HR and operations leadership, Kyle has worked with organizations ranging from small, family-owned businesses to large, complex employers across Manitoba. Through Hunt Leadership Group, he partners with founders, CEOs, and leadership teams on fractional HR leadership, organizational development, leadership coaching, recruitment, and workplace culture initiatives. Known for his grounded, human approach to leadership, Kyle helps organizations grow with clarity, strong leadership foundations, and HR practices that actually work in the real world.

The Talk

I’ll share a bit about my journey from internal HR leadership to launching Hunt Leadership Group, including the moment I realized I already had the experience and capability to build something of my own. From there, we’ll explore one of the biggest challenges growing organizations face: how to scale without losing what made the business successful in the first place. In this short session, we’ll discuss why there’s no single definition of “good leadership,” how leadership behaviours quietly shape culture, and why the leadership skills a business needs should align with what the organization is trying to build. We’ll also explore why culture forms whether it’s intentional or not, and how early clarity around values and leadership expectations makes scaling easier over time. This conversation is geared toward founders and growing leaders who want to build organizations where people can do their best work while maintaining the culture, identity, and energy that made the organization special in the first place.