Business consultant Kristie Blase takes engineer’s approach to corporate governance

A litigator with an early career background in engineering, corporate counseling attorney Kristie Blase has always been drawn to analyzing systems. Her career trajectory went from running an environmental energy engineering center to counseling corporations and financial entities on business law and regulatory advice. In her decades of legal work, she also built a strong profile as a litigator. While the arena may have changed, her methodical approach to her work has been consistent. “What I really liked about litigation was that it's the opportunity to really dive deep and learn something new,” Blase said. “Honestly, that's what I really liked about engineering too, right? It's problem solving. You get to look at a problem and take it apart, figure out how it works, and put it back together. Litigation is a lot like that.” When she first started practicing complex business litigation out of law school, Blase began asking her clients about the world of corporate governance, slowly a