Purpose

Christine has more than 20 years’ experience in leadership facilitation, coaching, program design and communications. She has worked in senior roles within the public and private sectors, including the Australian Federal Police (AFP), the Australian Institute of Police Management (AIPM), the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) and various broadcast media agencies. Christine has several tertiary qualifications, including a master’s degree in executive coaching.

Christine is passionate about recognising and enhancing the strengths of others to create positive outcomes for individuals, teams, and organisations. She prides herself on being a warm, enthusiastic, and results-focused coach and facilitator, with a long track record of building high-performing, collaborative teams and achieving personal success.

Facilitation

Christine has many years’ experience facilitating leadership programs for senior executives working in law enforcement, policing and the Australian Government more broadly. In the classroom, she creates powerful learning environments by facilitating meaningful, high-level conversations that allow executives to share their workplace and leadership experiences to learn from each other. Well-versed in many aspects and frameworks relating to leadership development, Christine regularly facilitates sessions on leadership and authority, adaptive leadership, role theory, strategy, strengths and values, coaching, powerful conversations, offering and receiving feedback and leading through complexity.

Coaching

Christine has hundreds of hours’ experience working with Australian Government executives (EL1, EL2, SES1 and SES2 band levels and their equivalents) from police forces across Australia, the Australian Border Force, the Department of Agriculture and Fishers, the NSW Crime Commission, the Australian Criminal and Intelligence Commission (ACIC), NSW Fire and Resue and Transport NSW. Christine has also coached many international executives from New Zealand, Fiji, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Hong Kong. As a coach, Christine helps her clients to make progress on individual workplace goals, to progress upwards and to prepare for media and job interviews. She particularly enjoys transformational coaching, which allows her coachees to deeply explore many facets of how they work and live, to make significant changes and progress across every domain of their lives.  

Media and communications

Across her career, Christine has held senior positions across several government agencies, with significant expertise in media and communications. She spent many years leading media management, social media, internal communications and strategic policy teams at the AFP, after beginning her career as a Canberra-based TV and radio journalist with a focus on politics, law enforcement and the arts. Christine often brings her media experience into the classroom and has conducted specialised media training and development with executives from various police and public sector agencies, such as the CSIRO and ACT Government.