Christine K Champion

Christine has supported both individual leadership and organizational development for over 20 years. She has worked with clients from ‘C’ suite Executives and Managing Partners through to senior leaders from a diverse range of global organizations.

Christine’s early career was in retail where she held senior operational and trading roles. She then went on to found a privately owned, entrepreneurial, niche international seafood business operating across global markets. During this time, Christine developed a parallel career with the Business School at Oxford Brookes University, where she pioneered and led the launch of the International Centre for Coaching & Leadership Development. In 2003 Christine moved wholly into leadership and organizational development founding acumen executive coaching ltd, a city of London based consultancy which has flourished globally.

Her specialism lies in the area of strategic leadership and transformation, applying coaching skills to transform the performance of organizations, teams and individuals. The focus of her work is on one to one coaching assignments, many of which are set in complex, cross-cultural environments of global partnerships, corporates, public sector and for-profit organizations.

Throughout her career, Christine has devised ways of moving beyond the traditional development and honing of leadership competencies and skills to focus on more postmodern methods of supporting leaders. This facilitates changes in thinking to more complex, systemic and strategic ways to be responsive to the dynamic, ambiguous and complex internal and external environments.

Christine’s starting point for coaching is designed to increase self-knowledge, insight and awareness which in turn, elevates levels of consciousness, enabling the individual to intentionally choose how to respond in different situations. This agility and flexibility, she believes, is what is required for successful leadership in today’s changing world. Clients describe Christine as; ‘courageous, focused, pragmatic and energetic’. They value the support, challenge and organizational insights she brings to coaching.

At home, Christine enjoys family time including travelling, as well as swimming, dancing, walking, reading and The Arts.

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