Strategic alliances:
the expert team.

Christina Benty

Speaker, author, executive coach

Christina Benty, MA
is speaker, author
& an executive coach

for governing bodies who want to become high performing teams.

As former Mayor for the Town of Golden, her leadership journey forced her to face her own resistance to uncertainty and discomfort. She uses her lived experience to help others get comfortable with discomfort and expose the stories that keep us out of partnership and out of collaboration. She does it in the political arena where power dynamics, hierarchies, and competitive ‘us and them’ thinking is a risk to all of us. She has over 16 years’ experience on numerous policy governance boards spanning from health care, government, information technology, and community planning. She is the owner of Strategic Leadership Solutions, a consulting firm designed to assist teams in building a culture of excellence in leadership and governance.
In addition to her lived experience in the political arena, she studied political science for her undergrad and completed her Masters of Arts in Leadership at Royal Roads University with a thesis on community engagement and asset management for the Town of Golden. Christina has developed and facilitated numerous governance/asset management/service delivery education sessions and roundtable discussions. She has worked across the country informing, educating and engaging local governments on sustainable service delivery challenges and opportunities. Christina uses a variety of methodologies to stimulate group dialogue. She focuses on the importance of building a common language and understanding that allows local governments to address their complex issues in a collaborative manner. Christina is passionate about leadership development, organizational culture, asset management and community engagement. She believes in the importance of cultivating boards and councils that lead by governing and not managing. She is a Power & Systems Organizational Workshop Certified Trainer. With a combination of applicable experience and formal education, she prides herself on being creative, and dynamic in her approach to helping governing bodies engage in meaningful conversations that lead to systemic change.
Check out Christina’s TED Talk on Leadership here:
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