Media & Podcast Guest
Christina Haxton — strategic advisor helping CEOs and executive teams reduce execution friction, strengthen alignment, and scale without bureaucracy.
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Quick Book Summary
Christina Haxton is a strategic advisor to CEOs navigating rapid growth and organizational complexity. She helps leadership teams reduce execution drag, restore alignment, and translate strategy into disciplined action. Her work blends leadership psychology, team alignment, and practical operating discipline—so companies can move faster without burning out their people or adding bureaucracy.
Suggested Topics
Execution friction: why capable teams slow down as companies grow
Scaling without bureaucracy: clarity, alignment, operating rhythm
Decision bottlenecks inside leadership teams (and how to remove them)
Avoided conversations: the hidden cost to speed, trust, and execution
Ownership vs. accountability: how teams execute without “the bigger hammer”
Leadership under pressure: thinking, regulating, and deciding in complexity
Team alignment in fast-growth environments: how leaders “think together”
Conference & Executive Session Experience
Christina designs and facilitates executive sessions for leadership teams operating in high-growth environments. Her work includes strategic planning facilitation, team alignment workshops, and breakout sessions focused on execution, decision-making, and leadership communication.
Audiences consistently respond to her ability to translate complex leadership dynamics into practical tools leaders can apply immediately. Her sessions are interactive, grounded in real organizational scenarios, and designed to produce insight that continues long after the event.
Christina works especially well with audiences of:
• CEOs and founder-led companies
• executive leadership teams
• private equity portfolio leaders
• growth-stage organizations
• cross-functional executive groups
Sample Breakout Session Titles
Sample executive breakout sessions designed for high-growth leaders
Smart Teams Still Stall: The Hidden Friction Killing Execution
Alignment Is Not a Vibe: How Leadership Teams Actually Get on the Same Page
Stop Managing Around the Problem: The Conversations Leaders Avoid
Your Strategy Isn’t Failing — Your Operating System Is
Decision Drag: Why Everything Takes Too Long (and How to Fix It)
Ownership Without the Hammer: How Teams Execute Without Micromanagement
The Real Reason Your Meetings Don’t Move the Needle
When Growth Outruns Structure: Scaling Without Bureaucracy
Leadership Under Pressure: How Executives Think When Stakes Are High Execution Isn’t About Hustle — It’s About Alignment Why Smart Leaders Burn Out (and How to Build Sustainable Pace) The Cost of Avoided Conversations in Executive Teams From Vision to Reality: Turning Strategy Into Daily Behavior Fast Growth, Slow Decisions: Repairing Executive Decision Systems You Don’t Have a Talent Problem — You Have a Friction Problem
Short bio (100 words)
Christina Haxton is a strategic advisor to CEOs and executive teams navigating rapid growth. She helps leadership teams reduce execution friction, strengthen alignment, and scale without bureaucracy. With a background in psychology and more than two decades of executive advisory work, Christina specializes in how leaders think, decide, and collaborate under pressure. She is the founder of the Center for Sustainable Strategies, where she works with established companies facing growth complexity and organizational strain. Her work is practical, direct, and focused on restoring momentum inside leadership teams.
Full bio (for show notes)
Christina Haxton works with CEOs and leadership teams of established, fast-growth companies carrying more complexity than their systems can support. Most leaders she meets are smart and committed—the challenge isn’t effort. It’s execution drag: unclear priorities, decision bottlenecks, misalignment, and conversations teams avoid but urgently need.
Her work began long before authenticity became a leadership buzzword. With a background in marriage and family therapy, Christina studied how people change and grow—through conversations and relationships. She brought those principles into the workplace and began helping business owners and leaders communicate with clarity, strength, and genuine care. The impact was immediate: better teams, healthier cultures, stronger performance.
As she expanded into strategic planning and facilitation, she noticed a second pattern: strategy often failed not because leaders lacked vision, but because execution broke down in human systems. The gap between leadership intent and day-to-day reality created friction—especially as organizations scaled. That insight led her to develop an inclusive approach to strategy and execution that preserved clarity at the top while activating ownership throughout the organization—without turning “accountability” into a bigger hammer.
Today, Christina works directly with leadership teams to apply these principles in real time. Her focus is team alignment—helping executives think together, communicate clearly, and execute strategy without friction. Her work sits at the intersection of psychology, strategy, and execution: aligning how people think, relate, and decide so growth becomes lighter, faster, and more durable.
Because sustainable growth isn’t built on pressure. It’s built on conversations that create ownership.
Suggested host intro
Today’s guest is Christina Haxton, a strategic advisor helping CEOs and executive teams reduce execution friction, strengthen alignment, and scale without bureaucracy. Her work blends leadership psychology, team alignment, and practical operating discipline to help organizations move faster without burning out their teams.