Founder and CEO
Executive Leadership & Life Coach | Curator of Transformational Experiences | Purposeful Travel Advocate | Author
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Christy’s professional education expertise has afforded her the opportunity to work around the world. Since achieving a Masters Degree and Teaching Credentials in Sussex, England, she has created and developed two companies focused on Leadership Development Programs through education and conservation projects overseas.
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She has delivered leadership initiatives internationally to individuals, universities, small companies, and non-profits in the UK, Europe, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, South Africa, Canada, the USA, and Australia.
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Through her company, Venture Within, she creates transformational experiences for personal and professional growth. She lives a full and meaningful life while inspiring and enabling others to do the same.
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~ Expert in leadership development amongst professionals
~ 20 years an Educator, CEO of Venture Within, and formerly Co-Founder of EDventure International
~ ICF Accredited Certified Professional Coach
~ Curated strategic leadership workshops catered for traveling professionals, with a focus on personal development and growth.
~ Utilizes cultural immersive experiences as transformative opportunities.
There’s a sticky note on my desk that I look at daily. It’s a list of different word choices I can use to reframe my initial thoughts towards any goal I am pursuing but isn’t quite in my hands yet. This sticky note helps me raise my frequency and reconstructs the thoughts in my…
For much of my life, I tend to rush the gate. Patience is a virtue I am endlessly practicing. Moving slowly, pacing myself. Remembering to dally. Taking my time. Rarely this happens. But this week especially I have been reminded in more ways than one to embrace the stillness. The past few…
As we move into the final month of the year, I can tell you, I. Am. Feeling it. This morning, I woke up at a bright and shiny 7:00 am. I did not rise. I sleepily thought, “just a little longer . . . .” Cut past a few dream sequences later…
– – – As I write this, I am in two minds. First, I am ecstatic with the rise in opportunities, clients, and professional wins for my business of late. After this year of loss, scrambling, pivoting, re-launching (and yes, reeling in moments of defeat and exhaustion from the sucker-punches delivered this year),…
What. A. Week. And I’m not even referring to the US Elections, which I haven’t even checked in on. Today was especially busy, with a heavy dose of deep connection with friends from several friendship circles. The kind of connection where a simple text check-in just won’t do. Where a real-time, “How are…
There is a particular tiny cat that has, every day, for the last 3 weeks, showed up at my doorstep. She cries and begs, and attempts to sneak inside (occasionally successful), and finds all sorts of ways to wedge herself into the routine of this household. She has a name, but we’ll call her…
Every once in a while, I’m inspired to share a personal mantra I keep displayed in my house. My mantras keep me focused, positive, and energized. They are in the form of brightly colored sticky notes on my desk, or paper notes taped to my bathroom mirror, (suffering a little water damage). Some are…
A life disrupted would be putting it mildly, as far as describing this past month would go. But also, a life gifted. There were so many birthdays, only half of which I was able to celebrate. However, the birthday weekends that could be, these were celebrated with as big a bang as possible –…
The essential routine of self-care and its importance has been echoing loudly for weeks. It’s been the topic of masterminds I’ve joined, brought up in conversations with clients and friends, and seems to be the headline of many of my inbox reads. As a result, self-care has become the theme of my social media…
Most of my readers know my story. What I do, and why I do it, and the vibrant and interesting life that pursuing my passion has gifted me. With this life, I create authentic experiences that wake people up. I always have. (Even as a 26-year-old high school teacher in the UK – taking…