About Christina
Strategic advisor to CEOs navigating growth, complexity, and execution drag.
Who Christina works with
Christina Haxton works with CEOs and leadership teams of established, fast-growth companies who are carrying more complexity than their operating systems can support.
Most of the leaders she meets are capable, experienced, and committed. Their challenge isn’t effort or intelligence. It’s execution drag — unclear priorities, misaligned expectations, avoided conversations, and decision friction that slows momentum at exactly the stage when speed matters most.
Christina helps leadership teams restore clarity, rebuild alignment, and translate strategy into disciplined execution without adding unnecessary layers, bureaucracy, or noise.
How she approaches leadership and execution
Christina’s work sits at the intersection of strategy, leadership capability, and organizational health.
Her background in psychology — combined with two decades of executive advisory work — informs a practical understanding of how people actually think, decide, and relate under pressure. She focuses on the intrapersonal and interpersonal skills leaders need to operate effectively inside complex systems, especially during periods of growth, transition, or structural strain.
This is not motivational coaching.
It is structured work that strengthens how leaders think together.
What clients experience
Before founding the Center for Sustainable Strategies, Christina built a career helping closely held companies, founder-led businesses, and executive teams navigate growth without breaking their culture or their people.
Her approach blends strategic discipline with behavioral insight. Leaders leave conversations with clearer decisions, cleaner priorities, and operating rhythms that can scale.
Clients value her ability to surface issues quickly, speak plainly, and create space for conversations that teams often avoid but urgently need.
Christina leads most engagements personally and collaborates with a bench of trusted facilitators and advisors when scale or specialization is required. Every engagement follows the same standard:
Clarity. Alignment. ACTION.
Because sustainable growth is not built on pressure.
It’s built on coherence.
If your business looks successful from the outside but feels heavier than it should inside, you’re not alone.
Execution friction can be named, understood, and resolved.
That work starts with a conversation.
“She definitely brings a practical and innovative approach to learning! I have been a client of Christina’s for the past few years. Christina’s programs have been some of our most memorable learning experiences. Our team of veterinarians and paraprofessional management are using her teachings still to this day. She definitely brings a practical and innovative approach to learning!”
Results leaders report
Christina’s work is measured by operational outcomes, not workshop applause.
Across engagements, leadership teams have reported:
• retention of critical executives through transition periods
• measurable improvements in team collaboration and decision speed
• strategic milestones reached ahead of plan
• restored operating rhythm after periods of execution drag
The goal is not acceleration for its own sake.
It’s sustainable momentum that leaders can maintain.