Clients

Examples of Leadership Programs and Communities of Practice

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Here are a few of the programs that I’ve designed and /or led over the years. Feel free to reach out for more information about any of these.

Testimonials - Facilitation

  • “Christine’s facilitation style was like a masterclass in action, leaving me in awe and with big aspirations. Christine effortlessly navigated the session's flow and communicated seamlessly with her partner. If you're looking for a facilitator who can inspire, guide, and bring some fierce table tennis competition, Christine is the real deal.”

    Ivory Cancer, Director of Branding, Storytelling, and Advocacy, Higher Purpose Co.

  • “Christine is a rare and unique talent. She is easily relatable and connective, while also being analytical and strategic - holding details seamlessly in the liminal space of group work. She brings grounded intuition with expert facilitation skills, which makes working with her feel a bit like magic.”

    Caesaré Assad, Founder, Centipede Collective, LLC

  • “Christine trusts and respects the knowledge and intuition of the group. She incorporates and adapts the best of participants’ contributions. She has an unusual ability to maintain open communication and trust with all members of a fractured group while stewarding them through conflict.”

    Sarah Reed, Executive Director, Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation

  • “Christine is an amazing facilitator and mentor. She provides high level support to partners as they develop programs. She is able to provide guidance for challenges we face as well as foresee barriers that may arise. I don't think our program would have been successful as it is without Christine's guidance and support..”

    Bonnie Faitak, Associate Director, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

  • “Christine is a giant-hearted, crazy smart, deeply insightful, dedicated, human-savvy, accountable wizardress of a facilitator who really cares about what she does and the people who are there with her and what they are trying to learn, process, or do.”

    Maureen Ryan, Founder of Dark Creature LLC

Testimonials - Participatory Strategy

  • “Christine provided an external lens that broadened our perspective and high-level expertise that moved us toward focused decisions. She helped us seamlessly layer our goals with input from multiple stakeholders to create a cohesive vision and structure for implementation. Discernment, rolling with resistance, keeping the group moving forward, making participants feel good about their contributions, and reflecting without judgment are just a few of Christine’s superpowers.”

    Jenni Vaughan, Program Manager, Registered Dietitian; UAMS Community Health and Research

  • “Christine came in to pinch hit on a staff retreat for my advancement team, about 40 individuals who were diverse in every way, working across all areas. She did an amazing job bringing my team together in thoughtful, strategic, and human ways to build our team strategy and culture. Since that time, Christine has been an invaluable partner to me. She has moved into a role of coaching staff, including managers, to help discuss challenges and unlock their potential.”

    Jason Drucker, American Friends Service Committee, Associate Secretary General for Advancement

  • “Christine listens and learns to deliver thoughtful questions that help your team or group get to the heart of their own best decisions. Christine's ability to dig deep in learning about an individual organization is balanced by a wide perspective that elevates discussions in scope and productivity. She is truly a coach who creates the best conditions for those she works with to unearth their best.”

    Mischa Kirby, Vice President of Strategy and Communications, Community Foundation of Sarasota County

  • “Christine is a highly skilled strategic partner. Her facilitation skills are superb along with her listening and ability to effectively manage a consulting assignment seamlessly. She led the strategic planning process for our 32 member team and 18 member Board of Directors. She gathered information, listened, did external research and keep the project moving on time and on budget. Our resulting Strategic Framework and Strategy Screen documents were excellent and endorsed by our Board.”

    Roxanne Jerde, President/CEO - Community Foundation of Sarasota County

  • I retained Christine as a consultant for my own organization’s strategic review process. Christine provided a nuanced understanding of our network’s identity, new ideas for how to enhance our network’s engagement, and importantly, cultivated a spirit of experimentation for how we approach future changes. She then went We to be an excellent partner for our strategic review retreat, and based on the rapport she built with the board, Christine stayed on as a coach through a difficult cultural transformation.”

    Sarah Reed, Executive Director, Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation

Testimonials - Leadership Programs and Networks

  • “Christine helped us keep a project with 24 organizations on track. Her expertise made it possible for our project to serve the goals of the community of practice, to provide meaningful benefits to each participating organization, and to positively impact the communities served by our organizations. At each stage of the project, she led us to make better decisions about the project than we would have ever made on our own.”

    Chris Long, Principal Research Scientist, Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

  • “Christine was essential to developing, planning, and implementing our community of practice on food insecurity. She was critical in big-picture thinking about strategy and the scope of what we could accomplish in a three-year period. In short, this project would have been impossible without her.”

    Marissa Spear, Program Evaluator, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Community Health and Research

  • “Christine is able to sit with emerging leaders through the ebb and flow of their budding leadership skills. Her ability to direct folks to their North Star supports learning through a feedback loop. Her ability to clarify what is individual work versus what is broader systems work, allows for leaders to identify and navigate both short and long term goal setting necessary for building an organization.”

    Amber Smith, Executive Director, Women in Ranching

  • “We needed to reimagine a retreat for our fellows. Christine and her colleague Nikki stewarded a committee of alumni to create a collaborative design for the retreat that draws on the experiences of participants and generate a spirit of shared learning and mutual support. This retreat is now the best event we offer to our fellows.”

    Sarah Reed, Executive Director, Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation

Testimonials - Coaching and Advising

  • “Christine provided valuable insight that made me rethink my situation at work, and gave me tools that I am currently using to navigate these new challenges. I came to coaching overwhelmed with my new position and I came out empowered and knowing I can navigate challenging times.”

    Lina Valencia, Ph.D, Andean Countries Coordinator at Global Wildlife Conservation

  • “I recommend Christine to anyone who wants to better understand their own path, especially those who feel they're at a fork in the road or stagnant. She is unbelievably good at helping people get unstuck by tuning into themselves more fully.”

    Dave Kramer, Director of Green Programs at Boston Green Academy

  • “The opportunity to be coached by Christine has been a fantastic gift. She is a highly skilled listener who gives her full attention to the conversation she's in and is able to recognize and articulate patterns, themes, and opportunities for additional exploration. She has helped me recognize things I believe make me a better manager, colleague, and supervisee.”

    Emily Clarke, Director of Leadership Gifts, American Friends Service Committee

  • “Christine is a brilliant coach. Rather than parachuting in and telling everyone what to do, she has coached us on facilitation and planning complex projects involving multiple organizations. She has strengthened our team so that the benefits of working with her have spilled over into other projects that our team has begun.”

    Chris Long, Principal Research Scientist, Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition, University of Massachusetts, Amherst