Kristen Gaston in

Kristen Gaston

Login to view DISC.
Manager, Technical Sales Support at MSA Bacharach
📍 Greater Pittsburgh Region, United States

Kristen is a dynamic sales leader with a focus on customer advocacy and solution-selling. She has extensive experience building and leading successful teams at companies like MSA Bacharach, Kennametal, and Industrial Scientific. She holds a Bachelor of Science from Slippery Rock University.

Outside of work, Kristen is passionate about her organization and the people she works with. She values her family deeply and enjoys integrating her personal and professional life, such as by bringing her daughter to work for a day.

She began her career in the rental car industry before successfully transitioning and dedicating 13 years to the industrial safety sector.

Read the full overview →
Experience
21 Years
Current Role
Manager, Technical Sales Support
Location
Greater Pittsburgh Region, United States
Personality Overview

How Kristen shows up

Communication Style
Decision Approach
Work Preference

Behavioral traits and communication patterns that shape how this person evaluates opportunities, builds trust, and makes decisions in professional settings.

Login to view personality overview.
Priorities

Topics Kristen cares about

Servant Leadership
Her philosophy centers on building teams by pulling out what ignites the fire in people to make the whole greater than its parts.
Customer Advocacy
Identifies as a "Customer Advocate" and "Solution Seller", with a career focused on account management, customer success, and sales support to help clients succeed.
+4 more topics Login to view topics
Career

Work history

2-2024 - 2-2026
Manager, Technical Sales Support
MSA Bacharach
4-2023 - 2-2024
Manager, Inside Sales Metal Cutting
Kennametal
10-2022 - 2-2023
Director, Inside Account Executive Team
Industrial Scientific
3-2021 - 10-2022
Director, Account Management
Industrial Scientific
9-2020 - 3-2021
Director, Global Customer Success- Contract Administration, Sales Support & Account Management
Industrial Scientific
In the press

Media appearances

No media yetWe could not find public media appearances for this person.
Education
bachelor of Science
Slippery Rock University
Social presence
in
Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

DISC behavioral profile

Dominance, influence, steadiness, and calculativeness scores with guidance on how this person prefers to communicate and decide.

Login to view DISC.

More profiles

Discover additional public profiles from our index.

Unlock the full playbookSee exactly how to sell to Kristen. Free, 10 seconds.